Welcome to David Trickey

David Trickey is a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Accredited Expert Witness with extensive clinical experience working with Children and Families. He specialises in complex trauma or traumatic bereavement.

 

He acts as an Expert Witness giving evidence in various Court proceedings; and gives expert advice to various police forces concerning traumatised children and testimony. He is often consulted immediately following a trauma to inform the crisis response.

He also assists other professionals develop their skills and services. For example he provides specialist consultation to other agencies and professionals and offers independent evaluation of services.

 

His academic activity includes teaching both nationally and internationally, supervising research and writing for professional publications including co-authoring two chapters in the 2nd Edition of the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (in press). He was a member of the British Psychological Society’s Working Group on Disaster, Crisis and Trauma, and continues to be a member of the Advisory Committee of the Children and War Foundation.

 

He began his NHS career as a Clinical Psychologist in 1994 in South Lincolnshire, becoming Head of Child Psychology in 1998. He then worked with the Children’s Team of the Traumatic Stress Clinic in North London from 2000 until 2005 where he specialised in complex trauma and traumatic bereavement, particularly cases of family homicide. From 2005 he worked with South London and Maudsley NHS and from 2006 he was the Lead Consultant Paediatric Psychologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he managed the Paediatric Psychology and Paediatric Neuro-psychology Department. From November 2009, he took up a new post as Lead Clinical Psychologist for a new trauma service in Luton and Bedfordshire. The new service is part of the Child Bereavement Service, and is aimed specifically at helping traumatically bereaved children and young people.