CHARITY NO. RCN 1177084

Support for Health Professionals

Changing the future for vulnerable babies

BrightPIP’s vision is to change the future for vulnerable babies, one baby at a time in Brighton and Hove. We want every baby in our community to grow up feeling safe, secure and loved. Our mission is to intervene at the earliest time with families to support parents to have positive relationships with their children. We intend to ensure parent-infant psychological therapy (PIP) is freely available to all families in Brighton and Hove who need it. We work with mums and dads/non-birthing partners, together or individually as suits you. BrightPIP is a registered charity (RCN 1177084).

Human babies are unique in the extent of their underdevelopment at birth. The brain is only partially formed when a baby is born. By the age of one, it has grown to roughly 70% of its final mass and by the age of three, to 90%. Research shows that the first few years of an infant’s life are a crucial period. The brain is so easily shaped by its environment that early experiences have life-long consequences.

Dr Kerry Taylor

Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director

Dr Isobel Gammer

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Bea Birtwell

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Victoria Thornton

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Kerry Taylor
Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director

BrightPIP was founded by Dr Kerry Taylor, a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in parent-infant mental health, parenting and parent-child attachment. Kerry is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (membership number PYL 25557).
Kerry works as a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist for the NHS.  She also holds qualifications as a Play Therapist, in Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Re-Processing (EMDR) and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and as an Expert Witness in Family Law (Cardiff University Bond Solon).  Kerry’s specific qualifications and experience allow her to offer sensitive and very effective support to troubled families. You can view Dr Kerry Taylor’s LinkedIn profile here. 

Dr Isobel Gammer
Clinical Psychologist

Isobel is a Clinical Psychologist registered with the UK Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC; registration number PYL35064). She also holds a master's degree in Child Development from the Institute for Education, University College London. Isobel works part-time in the NHS in Sussex alongside her work for BrightPIP. She has specialised in work with with parents, children and families for over 20 years including working as an accredited P.L.A.Y. Home Consultant (facilitating a parent-led early autism intervention) in London before training as a Clinical Psychologist at the Salomon's Institute for Applied Psychology.  Isobel draws on a range of models in her work including Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT),  Narrative Therapy (NT) and Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP). Her approach is collaborative and flexible, exploring with families their current concerns and challenges and planning together the therapeutic support that might be most helpful.

Dr Bea Birtwell
Clinical Psychologist

Bea is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist (PYL29276). She has worked with parents and carers of infants and children in a number of settings over the last 18 years including inpatient, community, statutory and voluntary, from pregnancy into childhood. With a passion for timely, tailored, care and support, she believes in the power of parenthood for motivating change. She specialised in parent-infant psychological interventions during clinical psychology training and is trained in a number of evidence-based approaches that have been shown to benefit under-fives, including the Incredible Years, Mellow Bumps, Mellow Parenting, Triple P, and most recently abc (attachment and biobehavioural catch-up) intervention, a 10 week attachment-based parenting intervention for caregivers with babies age 6-24 months. She also works offering a 6 session model of parent-infant psychology (PIP).

Dr Victoria Thornton
Clinical Psychologist

Vicky is a Clinical Child and Family Psychologist who has worked in the NHs and Private Practice since 2005.  Vicky has a special interest in working to support and enhance the attachment bond between parents and their children. Vicky’s clinical experience includes extensive work with children and adults who have experienced trauma, as well as work with children with learning disabilities, autism and chronic health conditions.  Vicky is registered with the Health Professions Council (PYL21884) and Chartered with the British Psychological Society.

Dr Laura Williams

Clinical Psychologist

Caroline Squires

Project Coordinator

Francesca Rutherford

Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Helen Jones

Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Dr Laura Williams
Clinical Psychologist

Laura is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist (PYL32157).  Having worked with children and families for a number of years, she has a particular interest in working with young children and their parents because of a passion for early intervention (helping before a problem gets too big).  She specialised in parent-infant therapy during clinical psychology training and is also trained in a number of evidence-based approaches that have been shown to benefit under-fives, including the Incredible Years behavioural programme , the Solihull Approach and Video Interaction Guidance.  When not at BrightPIP, Laura works part-time in East Sussex Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Caroline Squires
Project Coordinator

Caroline is currently training as a Humanistic Counsellor, having previously worked in the NHS, Local Government and Higher Education as a Service Lead/Project Manager. Caroline’s role at BrightPIP is to receive and record all our referrals, to generate data to demonstrate the impact of our work and to support the team, our partners and commissioners with service development and administrative work as needed.

Francesca Rutherford
Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Francesca trained at The School of Infant Mental Health and specialises in working with pregnant women and parents and their babies under two who are experiencing relationship difficulties. She currently works in private practice in Lewes and for BrightPIP. She is also co-writing and co-editing a book on Infant Parent Psychotherapy.
Francesca works to support positive and lasting changes within the parent/baby/child relationship and to promote greater feelings of acceptance, understanding and fulfilment. Prior to training as a parent infant psychotherapist Francesca worked as a nursery teacher an early year’s advisory teacher specialising in inclusive practice and as a manager of a team supporting children with additional needs in their homes.

Helen Jones
Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Helen is an Infant Mental Health Practitioner at BrightPIP. She has a Postgraduate Diploma, ‘Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – CYP-IAPT’. Helen offers families the ‘Incredible Years Parenting Program’ and ‘Video Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline – VIPP-SD’. Both interventions support positive parenting and attachment in a sensitive, collaborative, and encouraging way. Helen is also qualified to deliver baby massage with families.
Prior to this role, Helen worked as an Infant school teacher and Early Years and Diversity Lead. In this role she has supported children and families in her care with an inclusive and nurturing approach. This has given Helen invaluable understanding and empathy towards the many challenges families can face.

Anna Bryant

Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Anna Bryant
Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Anna is a Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner at BrightPIP. She is currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma, ‘Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – CYP-IAPT’ at The Anna Freud Centre. Anna will be trained to offer families the ‘Incredible Years Parenting Program’ and ‘Video Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline – VIPP-SD’. Both interventions support positive parenting and attachment in a sensitive, collaborative and encouraging way.
Prior to this role, Anna worked as an Infant school teacher in Brighton and Hove. This gave Anna invaluable insights to the many challenges that parents face today, as well as strategies to support young children and families in her care with an inclusive and nurturing approach.

Dr Kerry Taylor

Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director

Dr Kerry Taylor
Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director

BrightPIP was founded by Dr Kerry Taylor, a Clinical Psychologist, specialising in parent-infant mental health, parenting and parent-child attachment. Kerry is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (membership number PYL 25557).
Kerry works as a highly specialist Clinical Psychologist for the NHS.  She also holds qualifications as a Play Therapist, in Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Re-Processing (EMDR) and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and as an Expert Witness in Family Law (Cardiff University Bond Solon).  Kerry’s specific qualifications and experience allow her to offer sensitive and very effective support to troubled families. You can view Dr Kerry Taylor’s LinkedIn profile here. 

Dr Isobel Gammer

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Isobel Gammer
Clinical Psychologist

Isobel is a Clinical Psychologist registered with the UK Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC; registration number PYL35064). She also holds a master's degree in Child Development from the Institute for Education, University College London. Isobel works part-time in the NHS in Sussex alongside her work for BrightPIP. She has specialised in work with with parents, children and families for over 20 years including working as an accredited P.L.A.Y. Home Consultant (facilitating a parent-led early autism intervention) in London before training as a Clinical Psychologist at the Salomon's Institute for Applied Psychology.  Isobel draws on a range of models in her work including Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT),  Narrative Therapy (NT) and Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP). Her approach is collaborative and flexible, exploring with families their current concerns and challenges and planning together the therapeutic support that might be most helpful.

Dr Bea Birtwell

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Bea Birtwell
Clinical Psychologist

Bea is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist (PYL29276). She has worked with parents and carers of infants and children in a number of settings over the last 18 years including inpatient, community, statutory and voluntary, from pregnancy into childhood. With a passion for timely, tailored, care and support, she believes in the power of parenthood for motivating change. She specialised in parent-infant psychological interventions during clinical psychology training and is trained in a number of evidence-based approaches that have been shown to benefit under-fives, including the Incredible Years, Mellow Bumps, Mellow Parenting, Triple P, and most recently abc (attachment and biobehavioural catch-up) intervention, a 10 week attachment-based parenting intervention for caregivers with babies age 6-24 months. She also works offering a 6 session model of parent-infant psychology (PIP).

Dr Victoria Thornton

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Victoria Thornton
Clinical Psychologist

Vicky is a Clinical Child and Family Psychologist who has worked in the NHs and Private Practice since 2005.  Vicky has a special interest in working to support and enhance the attachment bond between parents and their children. Vicky’s clinical experience includes extensive work with children and adults who have experienced trauma, as well as work with children with learning disabilities, autism and chronic health conditions.  Vicky is registered with the Health Professions Council (PYL21884) and Chartered with the British Psychological Society.

Dr Laura Williams

Clinical Psychologist

Dr Laura Williams
Clinical Psychologist

Laura is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist (PYL32157).  Having worked with children and families for a number of years, she has a particular interest in working with young children and their parents because of a passion for early intervention (helping before a problem gets too big).  She specialised in parent-infant therapy during clinical psychology training and is also trained in a number of evidence-based approaches that have been shown to benefit under-fives, including the Incredible Years behavioural programme , the Solihull Approach and Video Interaction Guidance.  When not at BrightPIP, Laura works part-time in East Sussex Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Caroline Squires

Project Coordinator

Caroline Squires
Project Coordinator

Caroline is currently training as a Humanistic Counsellor, having previously worked in the NHS, Local Government and Higher Education as a Service Lead/Project Manager. Caroline’s role at BrightPIP is to receive and record all our referrals, to generate data to demonstrate the impact of our work and to support the team, our partners and commissioners with service development and administrative work as needed.

Francesca Rutherford

Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Francesca Rutherford
Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Francesca trained at The School of Infant Mental Health and specialises in working with pregnant women and parents and their babies under two who are experiencing relationship difficulties. She currently works in private practice in Lewes and for BrightPIP. She is also co-writing and co-editing a book on Infant Parent Psychotherapy.
Francesca works to support positive and lasting changes within the parent/baby/child relationship and to promote greater feelings of acceptance, understanding and fulfilment. Prior to training as a parent infant psychotherapist Francesca worked as a nursery teacher an early year’s advisory teacher specialising in inclusive practice and as a manager of a team supporting children with additional needs in their homes.

Helen Jones

Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Helen Jones
Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Helen is an Infant Mental Health Practitioner at BrightPIP. She has a Postgraduate Diploma, ‘Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – CYP-IAPT’. Helen offers families the ‘Incredible Years Parenting Program’ and ‘Video Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline – VIPP-SD’. Both interventions support positive parenting and attachment in a sensitive, collaborative, and encouraging way. Helen is also qualified to deliver baby massage with families.
Prior to this role, Helen worked as an Infant school teacher and Early Years and Diversity Lead. In this role she has supported children and families in her care with an inclusive and nurturing approach. This has given Helen invaluable understanding and empathy towards the many challenges families can face.

Anna Bryant

Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Anna Bryant
Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner

Anna is a Trainee Infant Mental Health Practitioner at BrightPIP. She is currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma, ‘Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – CYP-IAPT’ at The Anna Freud Centre. Anna will be trained to offer families the ‘Incredible Years Parenting Program’ and ‘Video Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline – VIPP-SD’. Both interventions support positive parenting and attachment in a sensitive, collaborative and encouraging way.
Prior to this role, Anna worked as an Infant school teacher in Brighton and Hove. This gave Anna invaluable insights to the many challenges that parents face today, as well as strategies to support young children and families in her care with an inclusive and nurturing approach.

As a parent and as a clinician, I passionately believe that parents need to be cherished as they embark on the most vital task on earth; pregnancy, birth and the first years of caring for a tiny person who needs constant love and care. This is hard for all of us and I empathise with the parents who come into my care and would never judge them or jump to conclusions. I invite them to share their experiences and I listen. My training and experience mean that I have the honour of working alongside them at this important time. To understand and to move forward, to make things right – to help them reconnect.

Dr Kerry Taylor

 

Changing the future, one baby at a time

BrightPIP’s mission is to provide parent infant therapeutic help to all families who need this in a timely and accessible way

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