I am Dr Bernadette Carelse, an Educational Psychologist. I have been working in this profession since 2005. In 2022, I started offering Educational Psychology (EP) Services to families, making me a Private EP for the first time.

Perhaps someone from your school has suggested that your child/teenager ‘gets assessed’ by an Educational Psychologist (or EP or even “EdPsych” for short). Here is some information on an assessment for a child (or young person) involves.

if you decide that you want to go further, and to speak to an EP – to have an initial consultation – the first step is to formally give your consent for this to happen.

I need your consent because as soon as you start speaking to me about your child, I will start to make notes, in case I need to refer to the information later. This private information needs to be stored and looked after and so I need your consent as the parent/carer to do this.

Here is the consent form (below). I hope that it is straightforward.

If you have any questions, want to speak to me or go through the form together, we can also do this before you sign and return the form to me. If you prefer this, please contact me. We can arrange a date/time to do this.