THE TEAM
Together with Dr Zoe Cross, our team includes a range of professionals who are able to support with ADHD, autism and other neurodivergent challenges. It also means we can help more clients and offer a wider variety of specialist support. The whole team embraces the Cross Psychology culture – showing warmth, kindness and understanding – as well as having the qualifications and experience you’d expect.

Dr Zoe Cross
Clinical Psychologist
Business founder
Dr Cross is warm, welcoming and professional. She has spent many years working in NHS settings with children and families as part of a CAMHS team and also within specialist paediatric teams, whilst maintaining a healthy private practice working with clients of all ages with a range of mental health difficulties.
Special interests:
Autism, ADHD and Cognitive

Dr Victoria Lawson
Chartered Counselling Psychologist
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Dr Lawson is an experienced practitioner psychologist, HCPC registered, with a special interest in supporting people following traumatic or challenging experiences. She has a wealth of clinical experience which includes:
Third Wave CBT and EMDR practitioner. NHS experience within Children and Young People Mental Health team. Expert witness.
Special interests:
Trauma, mental health

Emma Brierley
Pharmacist
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Emma is a pharmacist with over 20 years of experience. She qualified as an independent prescriber in 2009.
Emma has over 10 years' CAMHS experience supporting children and young people with ADHD and autism. She now works directly with families offering ADHD assessments and ongoing support and medication.
Special interests:
ADHD, autism

Karen Candy
BACP Person-Centred Counsellor
Accredited PPP Facilitator
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Karen has over 12 years’ experience of working with children, young people and their families. She is an accredited Positive Parenting Programme facilitator, and has a background in supporting students’ and parent’s mental health and wellbeing in both primary and secondary schools. Her experience includes working at a mental health and wellbeing charity and providing private counselling support to adults and children within the local community.
Special interests:
Online counselling

Jade Carnell
Administrative Assistant to Dr Cross
At Cross Psychology, Jade is your first point of contact: providing information, arranging appointments and ensuring your experience is smooth and welcoming from the moment you get in touch. She is highly skilled at service coordination and provides excellent client care.
14 years of experience in the NHS as a Senior Pharmacy Technician. Completed her Professional Diploma in Management at The University of Leicester in 2017.
Helen Jones
Nutritionist
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Information coming soon

Dr Abbie Moran
Speech and Language Therapist
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Dr Abbie Moran is fun, positive and highly experienced. She has expertise in autism, Developmental Language Disorder and early language development. Abbie delivers termly online Hanen programmes, including More Than Words for pre-school children and Talkability for primary-aged children.
Special interests:
Speech and language
Autism, children, families
