Before co-founding The Child Wellbeing Clinic, Dr Tom Cawthorne was a Senior Clinical Psychologist registered with The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). He also holds additional accreditations as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and Mentalization-based therapist. Tom specialises in working with children, adolescents and their families, and is experienced in delivering a range of evidence-based psychological therapies. This includes conducting individual therapy with young people, as well as delivering parent-led interventions, family therapy and working with professionals around the young person (e.g., providing training and consultation to schools).  

Tom also has a specialist interest in working with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental differences, including autism and ADHD. He is trained in conducting neurodevelopmental assessments to inform diagnoses and providing adapted psychological interventions for the co-occurring mental health problems commonly experienced by young people with these conditions.   Tom is actively involved in research, teaching and training, having published in academic journals and winning a national award for his doctoral thesis.

Tom is currently Senior Clinical Psychologist within the National Conduct Adoption and Fostering Team (CAFT), which is part of the National & Specialist CAMHS at the Maudsley Hospital. In this role, he conducts psychological assessments and interventions with children and adolescents who are adopted or fostered and young people presenting with significant behavioural difficulties. Prior to this Tom worked within the Intensive Treatment Programme of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders, which is a national service for young people with severe anorexia that has not responded to outpatient treatment. In addition to his position in CAFT he has an honorary contract at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he is part of a specialist clinic for young people with co-occurring physical and mental health problems, functional/medically unexplained symptoms, complex OCD, anxiety disorders and tics/Tourette’s.