Jessica Narowlansky
Psychotherapist and Neurodiversity Consultant in London, United Kingdom
Member BPS & TSP, BA (Hons), Mont Dip, PG SpLD, PG Child Adolescent & Family Mental Wellbeing, MA Psychological Therapies, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working with children, adolescents & parents
I am a psychotherapist working with children, young people, parents and individuals up to 24 years of age. Along with offering support in a range of areas including anxiety, anger and depression, I have in depth experience of supporting children and young people with Specific Learning Difficulties, Autistic Spectrum conditions and/or social communication difficulties. I also offer support to adults who receive diagnosis of neurological difference (e.g. Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism) in adulthood.
After completing my training as an International Montessori teacher I taught in primary education before training as a level 7 specialist in Dyslexia Assessment and Specialist Literacy Teaching. I then worked in London schools as a one to one literacy specialist and then as Special Educational Needs Coordinator. In 2014 I co founded The Independent School, a secondary school for children with additional needs. I then went on to train at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust as a psychodynamic psychotherapist working with children, young people, parents and young adults. I have found my background in education to be invaluable in understanding the needs of the young people with whom I work. In 2016, I co-founded The Child and Adolescent Development Centre (The CDC), where my therapeutic practice is based. The CDC offers multidisciplinary assessment and clinical services across the public and private sectors.
In addition to my work in mental health and education, since 2015 I have worked in collaboration with law firms offering expert testimony in tribunals to support families in securing Education, Health and Care Plans. I am also a freelance writer looking at issues in education and mental health.
I am an advisory board member of the Words Matter charity (www.wordsmatter.org), dedicated to ending verbal abuse of children by adults. I am also currently sitting on an expert panel for RE-STAR, a four-year, interdisciplinary programme dedicated to developing resilience building programmes for neurodivergent adolescents, led by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke of the Experimental Psychopathology and Neurodevelopment (ExPAND) Research Group at King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/re-star).