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Debra is an experienced chartered coaching psychologist and educational psychologist.

She qualified as an educational psychologist in 2000 with an MSc in Educational Psychology from University College London and in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching from the Centre for Coaching in London in 2012. She is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society; registered psychologist with the Health & Care Professions Council UK and with the Pinkas HaPsychologim Israel, a member of the British Psychological Society's Divisions in Coaching Psychology and Educational & Child Psychology, a member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology and the Association for Coaching.

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Debra has extensive experience working with children & young people, students and adults, through coaching, consultation and assessment. She has worked in two local authorities and in the voluntary sector and has been working in private practice since 2003.

 

Debra works in London and online. Debra abides by the Code of Ethics and Conduct of the BPS and HCPC and undertakes regular Continuing Professional Development.​

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Debra Raye Educational and Coaching Psychologist

About

BSc Hons, MSc, PGCE, C.Psychol, AFBPsS

Debra Raye

Areas of Work

  • Coaching students, young people and adults.

  • Educational psychology assessments and advice for children, young people and students, with a range of special educational needs and specific learning difficulties including: Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, memory and processing difficulties, Autism Spectrum Condition, ADHD, language and communication difficulties, sensory and physical difficulties, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

  • Assessment and advice for gifted and talented children and young people.

  • Assessments for examination Access Arrangements.

  • Assessments for Disabled Student’s Allowance for University.

  • Consultation and advice for parents/carers and teachers.

  • Training and workshops.

  • Statutory work, including writing detailed psychological reports for Education Health and Care needs assessments.

  • Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues including: Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Paediatricians, Social Care Workers.

  • Contributing to organisational and school initiatives and policy development.

Work background

  • Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Educational Psychologist in private practice.

  • Senior Educational Psychologist in a charity organisation in London.

  • Educational Psychologist in Harrow and Barnet Local Authorities.

  • Acting Headteacher and class teacher in a specialist provision for children with Autism Spectrum Condition, London.

  • Primary school teacher in mainstream and special schools in London.

Qualifications

  • Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, Centre for Coaching, London

  • MSc Educational Psychology, University College London

  • PGCE, Institute of Education, University of London

  • BSc Hons Psychology, University of Manchester

Professional Memberships and Registrations

  • Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council 

  • Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society

  • Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society 

  • Division of Coaching Psychology and Educational and Child Psychology

  • Association of Educational Psychologists 

  • Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice

  • Association for Coaching

  • International Society for Coaching Psychology

  • Register of Qualifications in Test use

  • Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

  • Registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (Data Protection Act 1998)

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