ABOUT ME

I’m Alice Morgan-Clare, a social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) mentor based in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas - here to guide you through life’s confusing and overwhelming emotions. I truly care about my clients’ well-being and guarantee psychologically based services catered to their needs.

I have been supporting children and young people with SEMH needs for 8 years, I have provided a range of one-to-one and group services to those dealing with challenging life experiences and emotions and guided them to expressing and managing their emotions in a more positive way. Client well-being is my number one priority, and I go above and beyond to empower them to cope with life's obstacles. Get in touch with me today for more information.

I have an enhanced DBS check and a history of supporting vulnerable children and young people on a one-to-one basis

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MY PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

What Makes Me Stand Out

TRAINEE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST (DEdPsych)

MRES SCIENCE (PSYCHOLOGY)

BSC(HONS) PSYCHOLOGY

I am currently undertaking a Doctorate at the University of Southampton to become an educational psychologist. This involves learning about the psychological theory, application and techniques to support children and young people experiences difficulties. This includes promoting learning, develop emotional, social and behavioural skills and support psychological development. The course involves part of the week at university and the rest of the week in placements within education to apply the skills I am learning.

My time at university developed my core understanding for how to apply psychological theory to support with mental health problems as well as understanding common learning difficulties and neurodiversity.

Whilst studying and working, I developed a passion for enabling children and young people (CYP) to access education in order to thrive.

On completion of my undergraduate degree I was awarded the Awarded 2017 Britsh Psychological Society Undergraduate Award for the Highest Overall Grade

SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST

Working in a fast paced secondary school. Providing students with one-to-one and group support. Support centres around managing anger, anxiety and low mood. I also provided support with social skills and understanding boundaries and generally listening ear support. I worked hard to build trusting relationships and be a positive adult in students lives. I developed and delivered training for staff and parent workshops to aid in understanding young peoples behaviour and wellbeing and provide tools to upskill people with dealing with difficult emotions in the home or school setting.

ASSISTANT EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Working within the Mental Health Support Team in West Sussex I provided training for parents, carers and professionals around understanding common mental health needs, communicating with teenagers, self-care and sleep and understanding trauma and attachment needs. I also provided support to school students through anxiety workshops and school transition workshops. I learnt to deliver cognitive behavioural based therapy work targeting anxiety, anger and low mood.

SENIOR YOUTH SUPPORT WORKER

Within this role I worked with children and young people from challenging and deprived backgrounds. This is where I developed my passion for support children and young people. I had to develop tools for making positive connections with clients quickly as many were hard to engage. I supported them through positive activities and adapted my communication to fit each clients needs. I worked closely with schools and family to reinforce support. I was also awarded the Hampshire and Isle of Wight High Sheriffs Award for supporting exploited young people and information sharing with the Police and safeguarding for my work as a youth worker.