Dr Theodora Manolopoulou

• Cultivated empathetic therapeutic relationships to foster trust and open communication.
• Participated in continuous professional development activities, keeping up-to-date with emerging theories and practices.
• Conducted comprehensive assessments for accurate diagnosis.
• Applied therapeutic interventions for families in community and in the clinic
• Maintained confidential client records following legal requirements.
• Provided supervision and consultations to professionals in the commmunity
• Maintained compliance with regulatory requirements surrounding mandatory reporting and client safety.
• Managed diverse caseload with consistently positive outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Collaborated with other practitioners to arrange therapeutic consultations.
• Recorded patients progress and changed treatment plan when necessary.
• Built trusting client rapport to create safe and welcoming clinical environment in the clinic and community.
• I provide efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist early intervention assessment and treatment service for children under 5 with highly complex and persistent infant mental health problems and presentations beyond ordinary developmental expectations, their carers/parents and families within care pathways as relevant.
• I contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of families with children Under 5 with complex infant mental health presentations, and developmental and emotional difficulties.
• I offer consultation, teaching and training on infant mental health and attachment to multidisciplinary colleagues in the community
• I actively engage in outcome monitoring, including the use of normed routine outcome
  measures associated with CYP IAPT.
• Advocated on behalf of clients, promoting rights and autonomy.

• Operate within clinical practice, leveraging supervision in alignment with CAMHS Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
• Provide specialized supervision to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist trainees at the doctoral level.
• Deliver expert consultations to the Urgent Care Team and various teams across Hillingdon CAMHS, specifically for children with relational difficulties
• Conduct brief therapeutic interventions, including parent/child psychotherapy, parent support, psycho-education, and focused individual therapy for children facing complex mental health challenges such as autistic spectrum disorders, learning difficulties, ADHD, emotional difficulties (depression and anxiety), attachment disorders, conduct disorders, eating/feeding disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosomatic disorders, enuresis/encopresis, aggression, and self-harm, integrating with specialized Care Pathways.
• Identify and implement mechanisms for clinical governance to support and enhance clinical practice.
• Conduct initial assessments for young people and families within the Emotional Disorders Team, formulating comprehensive treatment pathways through collaborative discussions.
• Manage duty tasks by triaging referrals from GPs, parents, schools, and social workers, while providing risk assessments to prioritize evaluations.
• Identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• Act as care coordinator when appropriate, initiating, planning, and reviewing CAMHS care plans involving children, young people, their carers, referring agents, and others in the care network.
• Communicate effectively and sensitively about assessment, formulation, and treatment plans, and monitor progress during both uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary care.
  

• Conducted a series of seminars on Sigmund Freud and his theories at the Institute of Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy (IPCP) in South Africa.
• Engaged a diverse group of professionals, including psychiatrists, child psychotherapists, and workers with young children and families.
• Structured the course over six weeks, with each session lasting two hours for 25 participants.
• Achieved positive feedback, with the majority of participants rating the course as excellent.

• Completed Initial Assessments and Care Coordinating and assessing risk for children aged from 3-17 years, organising and managing their treatment for Looked After and Adopted Children (LAAC)
• Offered short-term and long-term Treatment to LAAC with complex presentations
• Worked as part of multidisciplinary Team, holding reviews offering psychoanalytic consultations to networks such as schools, Social Services, Medical Teams, professionals and non-professional groups
• Offering Duty work, emergency assessments and 7-day follow-ups
• Chairing weekly Psychotherapy Workshop across Generic, LAAC

Neurodevelopmental Team, and Adolescent Team for the past three years

• Maintained confidential client records in accordance with legal requirements.
• Adhered to ethical guidelines whilst maintaining high standards of practice in psychotherapy.
• Managed diverse caseload with consistently positive outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Led a Transitions Project with the Lead Psychiatrist of Bromley CAMHS across CAMHS and Adult Mental Health, for young people who are turning 18 years, receive psychotherapy and need a thoughtful and containing transition to Adult Mental Health. This was the template based on which the whole Trust developed their transition work.

• Coordinated outreach programs with local schools and businesses, fostering a sense of community connection.
• Increased community involvement by organising and facilitating regular public engagement events.
• Led training sessions for professionals in the Council about Children's Emotional Development, Language Development and Mental Health
• Run weekly programs educating families about their rights and the services available to them.
• I ran the Participation Groups across the Borough
• Organised activities that would enhance the participation of families in the communities that are hard to reach.

• My pioneering role was to apply Psychological concepts such as safe place, containment, belonging into architectural design into the design of an orphanage that will be a home for 20 children aged between 5-15 years.
• Building of the orphanage during summer, involving the children and local community in a safe way.
• Organising and running activities for vulnerable children in conjunction with the building work: transitionto their new home, personalisation of space, sense of individuality and community, sense of ownershipand control, development of rules within communal living.
• Organise and deliver workshops to the carers of the children in order to support their emotional development.

• Created an inclusive classroom environment, promoting diversity and mutual respect amongst students.
• Worked closely with special needs children, providing tailored lessons that accommodated their unique learning requirements.
• Led staff training programmes to improve overall teaching quality across the institution.
• Cultivated a love for learning amongst students by presenting subjects in exciting ways which captured their interest level.
• Coordinated school events that encouraged community involvement and strengthened relationships between parents, teachers, and administrators.
• Influenced positive behaviour amongst students by setting clear expectations and consistent boundaries.

• Worked as part of a Multidisciplinary Team including Paediatricians, Teachers,Psychotherapists, Play Therapists, and Physiotherapists of St Thomas's Hospital NHS.
• Provided emotional support and encouragement to children aged from 5-12 years who are hospitalised (staying in wards and/or with chronic illnesses) to engage in learning activities and education, with maximum emotional and social benefit.
• Aided recovery by providing purposeful activities at a level of engagement and challenge appropriate to each child's individual needs.

• Provided psychological support to adults experiencing mental health challenges, both individually and in group settings, to enhance their quality of life and help them integrate into the community.
• Participated in and facilitated Art Therapy Workshops.
• Led fundraising activities and events.
• Served as the first Psychosocial Support Worker to conduct computer and internet lessons.
• Administered interviews and questionnaires to users for service evaluation.es to users for service evaluation

• Worked within the ‘Adoption and Attachment Representations Study’; the largest Longitudinal Research with adopted children.
• Utilised robust quantitative and qualitative methodologies for comprehensive investigations.
• Conducted thorough literature reviews for insightful study foundations.
• Processed, analysed, interpreted and presented data, both alongside the Lead Researchers and independently.
• Time management and organisation: the enhanced ability to work efficiently to strict internal and external deadlines, whilst still enjoying the process.
• In-depth experience with SPSS,
• During my Masters at the Anna Freud Centre, I conducted my own research using this sample, adding the ‘Adult Phase', developing interview tools with the help of specialists from British Association of Adoption and Fostering, examining the results independently by comparing them against previous stages of the study.