Dr Roberta Radcliffe-Birds
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Roberta is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with nearly two decades’ experience specialising in autism and ADHD assessment across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. She has worked across CAMHS, child development services, and specialist neurodevelopmental teams, supporting individuals and families where neurodevelopmental, emotional, and relational needs interact.
Roberta is known for her thoughtful, calm, and collaborative approach. She takes time to understand each person’s story and context, ensuring the assessment process feels containing, respectful, and clearly explained. Her work is neuroaffirming, recognising that people experience and process the world in different ways. She supports individuals to understand themselves with clarity and compassion, so that their differences feel recognised, valued, and understood.
Roberta has extensive experience in complex assessment and differential formulation, including situations where autism and ADHD may overlap with trauma, anxiety, attachment needs, or where individuals have learned to cope by masking their differences in order to feel safe or fit in. She draws on recognised neurodevelopmental assessment tools alongside clinical interview and observation, and her practice is informed by training in AMBIT, systemic practice, attachment-focused approaches, and positive behaviour and relational support models. She provides supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary teams and contributes to the development of neurodevelopmental pathways, workforce training, and reflective practice spaces across services. Her work is grounded in system awareness — supporting not only individuals and families, but the systems around them to understand and respond thoughtfully.
Her assessments focus on building a shared understanding of strengths and needs, with clear, practical recommendations that make a meaningful difference in everyday life.
She is committed to promoting high-quality care that honours people’s lived experience and supports them to move forward with confidence.
How We’ll Work Together
When we meet, we’ll take things at your pace. You don’t need to know what to say or how to say it. I’ll ask questions gently and explain everything we’re doing so there are no surprises.
You can talk, draw, take breaks, use a fidget, look away, move around — whatever helps you feel comfortable. There are no right or wrong answers, and you don’t have to pretend or perform. You just get to be yourself.
We’ll think together about what feels easy for you and what feels harder, and what helps in everyday life. I’ll listen carefully to understand how the world feels from your point of view.
By the end of our sessions, I’ll share clear ideas and suggestions that are made just for you — to help things make more sense and to support you to feel more confident in who you are.
BSc (Hons) Psychology
Masters (MA) Learning Disabilities
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Practice
HPC registration: PYL 19681
