Leading independent provider of mental health services
Established in 2008, Psych Health is led by clinical directors and founders, Dr Ben Barnaby and Dr Joe Buckman.
Our clinically driven ethos
ensures any commercial considerations do not compromise our patient focus or our clinicians.
Psych Health provides an independent psychology service to a range of insurers, OH providers, Primary Care providers and employers. We are essentially a primary care psychology service and, due to the context, we may need to consider work in relation to someone’s health - how health affects their work and how to prevent work related illness. Where appropriate, we aim to help reduce levels of absence and cost to an organisation by getting the employees back to work sooner, although for many of the patients we see work is not an issue.
Meet our people
Gurpreet Kamboo
Clinical Psychologist
Gurpreet is a Clinical Psychologist and the clinical lead at our JLR partnership. She provides group and/or one-to-one intervention as well as training – enabling her to wear ‘lots of hats’ and stay true to her values as a clinician.
Dr Kornilia Givissi
Counselling Psychologist
Kornilia is a Counselling Psychologist with 13 years’ experience. She joined Psych Health as a network clinician in 2018, before becoming an employed clinician in August 2020. She subsequently became a Clinical Manager in the service. As a clinician, Kornilia specialises in self-harm and trauma.
Dr Katharine Chaudhuri
Clinical Psychologist
Katharine has been with Psych Health for two years and has advanced to become part of our Senior Clinician team, after spending most of her career in the NHS. As a clinician, she implements an integrative approach informed largely by the Schema Therapy model.
Dr Anna Wachowska
Counselling Psychologist
Anna is a Counselling Psychologist with five years’ experience. She specialises in psychodynamic treatment and exploring unconsciousness. She started working at Psych Health part time just over two years ago and then became full time one year ago after leaving the NHS.
Part of the Health Partners Group
Recent incorporation into the Health Partners Group has enabled us to take a more holistic approach to mental healthcare, incorporating where possible physical wellbeing and, for example, management of chronic physical health conditions into our treatment plans.
Working for us
Being clinically led ensures our values remain focused on the patient, we do things the right way and never lose sight of the fact that, as clinicians, our primary aim is to help people get better, stay better and live better.
How we’ve helped our clients
Improving access to mental health services
When a magic circle law firm needed help improving access to high level mental health services that matched the particular needs of its workplace, Psych Health introduced an integrated mental health service that included preventative and strategic elements.
Results:
Improved responsiveness of care – average first appointment within 7 days
Improved engagement around mental health at all levels within the organisation
70% return to work as a result of treatment
Reducing long-term Income Protection claims due to mental health
A large multinational investment house needed help reducing the financial and human cost of long-term Income Protection claims due to mental health. Psych Health implemented an in-house, high-level mental health service integrated with Occupational Health which included preventative strategies.
Results:
Improved intervention timelines (over 90% accessing treatment prior to being off sick)
Substantial improvements in long-term absence due to mental health and associated IP claims
Significantly improved recovery rates
Increasing awareness of mental health issues amongst male employees
A major industrial company was concerned about rates of mental ill health amongst male employees, and found this was a difficult audience to reach them when talking about mental health. Psych Health provided a bespoke training programme with content specific to the organisations immediate need for mental health awareness training, with a focus on the issues that can prevent men from talking about mental health difficulties.
Results:
Successful delivery of 21 workshops across 11 sites, delivered both onsite and remote to support the full target audience and match user preferences.
200 employees attended and engaged in the workshops
Received highly positive feedback from the employees and the organisation’s management team
Our Core Values
Our core values are a fundamental part of our culture and ethos - they make us who we are. We expect everyone who works for and with Psych Health to embody these values as we continue to help people get better, stay better and live better.
CARING
We take care of our clients and each other, listening, learning and respecting what matters most
ONE TEAM
We work as one team actively encouraging collaboration, idea generation and knowledge sharing
RELATIONSHIPS
We build trusted relationships, working together and supporting each other to achieve more
EXCELLENCE
We will always work hard to improve and maintain the high standards we set ourselves
Contact Us
To find out more about Psych Health or if you’re a qualified mental healthcare professional and want to learn more about the opportunities we have available, please get in touch.