Gill I?Anson

Gill is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in supporting the wellbeing of children, young people and families for over 20 years. She is passionate about supporting the development of professionals, leaders and teams to bring psychological knowledge to their role, to benefit both clients and staff. Gill supports professionals from Education, Health, Social Care, Charity, Research, Legal and Corporate sectors in her role at Changing Minds Child and Family Services (CMCAFS), through training and consultation. She has many years of experience supporting adults and children with complex trauma and particularly values a systemic approach to understanding difficulties/challenges and the resources we can cultivate to help individuals, teams and communities thrive. Gill has contributed to the Covid Inquiry by supporting researchers with psychological-responsive training and practice.

Gill has worked with her colleague Sue Knowles to develop the EVOLVING Leadership framework which aims to support the development of psychologically responsive leadership within the health, social care and education workforces (and within other organisations which impact upon the lives of young people and families). To bring people together from different organisations to connect, be creative and share ideas, and reflect together and collaborative to bring about meaningful change. The framework also draws upon psychological research and theory, to inform leadership and organisational change, and to enhance psychological thinking more generally across organisations, with the aim of creating the most healthy, resilient and purposeful teams/systems.

Gill is also research supervisor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course at Lancaster University and provides supervision and training to Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses.