Lincoln Team
Lincoln Team
Our services are delivered by a team of highly qualified and experienced mental health professionals led by Clinical Director, Alice Vine. Please click our Clinicians’ profiles below for more detailed information.
Senior Clinicians & Clinic Adminstration
Alice Vine
Forensic Psychologist & Clinical Director
BSc (Hons), MSc, CPsychol.
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Expertise and Experience
Alice is the Director and lead Psychologist of the Purple House Clinic, Lincoln.
Alice is a highly experienced Psychologist, having led an NHS Forensic Child and Adolescent Service in Lincolnshire. She is a Registered and Chartered Forensic Psychologist. Alice is experienced in working with clients of all ages - adults, children and adolescents. She provides assessment and therapeutic intervention for a range of psychological difficulties including depression, anxiety, phobias, obsessive/compulsive problems, complex grief, addictions, trauma, and child behavioural problems. Within her NHS role Alice has gained a vast experience providing assessment and treatment, working predominantly with Looked After Children and young people whose behavioural difficulties have brought them into contact with criminal justice agencies, or have caused them to be excluded from educational settings. For this type of work, Alice works with children, their families and involved professionals in order to gain a deep understanding of the specific circumstances which may have contributed towards their difficulties. This holistic approach seeks to engender effective coping strategies, increased personal resilience, and minimise risk-related behaviours.
Alice specialises in Child Psychology, offending and behavioural problems, attachment and trauma (PTSD). She also has extensive experience of working with adults suffering with emotional and interpersonal difficulties (often linked to childhood), personality disorders and accompanying risk-related behaviours. Alice is skilled in working with complex presentations including dissociative conditions. She utilises several therapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Schema Therapy.
Alice is an EMDR Consultant who supervises groups and individuals in their EMDR practice. She also facilitates regional EMDR training events.
Alice has over 17 years’ experience working with clients within secure and community settings. Alice provides supervision, consultation and service development. She also provides supervision services for a number of public and private service providers.
Qualifications
2005 - Qualification in Forensic Psychology (Stage 2), British Psychological Society.
2002 - Master of Science in Applied Forensic and Legal Psychology (MSc.), University of Leicester.
1999 - Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology (BSc. Hons).
Professional Registrations & Memberships
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC): PYL06784
British Psychological Society (BPS): 098653
EMDR Association UK and Ireland.
Specialisms
Child/Adolescent Psychology (mental health problems, behaviour problems and parenting).
Attachment difficulties, including Looked After and Adopted Children.
Adult Psychology (PTSD, Personality Disorders, childhood trauma, interpersonal problems).
Offending Behaviours, Risk Assessment, Formulation and Management.
Main Therapeutic Approaches
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (Alice is an accredited EMDR Practitioner, Consultant and Facilitator).
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Sarah Beddows
Clinical Psychologist
BSc (Hons), MSc, MClinPsych, PGCert, CPsychol, AFBPsS
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Expertise and Experience
Sarah is a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist who currently specialises in Autism Assessments, working with Children & Adults with Learning Difficulties, Challenging Behaviours and Personality Disorders. Sarah has specialist skills in working with children, young people and their families systemically.
Sarah has experience of assessing and working therapeutically with clients of all ages. Sarah has specialism in working with children on the Autistic Spectrum, adults with Depression, Anxiety, Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, older adults post stroke, older adults with dementia and adults with acute mental health difficulties.
Sarah manages the Neurodevelopmental Pathway here at the Purple House Clinic in Lincoln.
Sarah is skilled at working systemically with families and has developed specific training interests in this area. She also has expertise in offering assessments for Neurodiversity in the area of Autism and ADHD assessments and interventions.
Sarah has also worked with adults with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, drug-induced psychosis and schizo affective disorder.
Sarah has engaged clients within a wide range of settings including the NHS, special hospitals and universities.
Sarah has worked therapeutically with adults and children with learning behavioural difficulties, young offenders with mental health and learning difficulties, university students, secondary school pupils with special educational needs such as autism, developmental delay and behavioural issues such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and also primary school pupils including those with english as an additional language.
Qualifications
2023 - PGCert Systemic Practice University of Leeds
2016 - Master of Clinical Psychology, CQ University, Australia
2001 - Master of Applied Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester
1995 – Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BSc Hons), University of London
Professional Registrations & Memberships
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC): PYL06784
British Psychological Society (BPS): 098653
EMDR Association UK and Ireland.
Specialisms
Neurodiversity Assessment, specifically ASD & ADHD.
Adults with Learning Difficulties and Personality Disorders; Assessment and Therapy.
Adult Mental Health; Depression, Anxiety, Attachment Difficulties, Pain Management, PTSD, Dementia.
Assessment; Cognitive, Capacity, Functional, Neuropsychological.
Main Therapeutic Approaches
Systemic Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and radically open (DBT and RO DBT )
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Behavioral Therapy
Behavioural Family Systems Therapy (BFST)
Imagery Rescripting
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
Trauma focused CBT
IPT for Depression
Play Therapy (Including Sand Tray)
Sarah Todd
Forensic Psychologist
BA (Hons), MSc, CPsychol, AFBsS
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Expertise and Experience
Sarah is a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and a BPS Chartered Psychologist. Sarah has many years experience working as a Psychologist within both complex NHS services and Independent Practice. Sarah is experienced in working with adolescents and adults of all ages and provides assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention for a wide range of both common and complex psychological issues. She specialises in the area of Trauma and Mental Health, including PTSD, complex trauma and dissociation, and she works with an attachment focussed and relational approach. She is skilled in working with complex presentations and alongside her independent practice leads an NHS Forensic National Service for Deaf individuals who experience complex difficulties with mental health, personality and risk.
Sarah is an experienced Schema Therapist and uses this model of therapy with individuals of all ages and with couples. She has an interest in working with those who experience difficult patterns in their relationships with both others and self, and individuals who struggle with their identity. She is an experienced EMDR practitioner and enjoys using attachment focussed EMDR with those who have experienced attachment and relational trauma or who struggle in their view of self, relationships with others or with their emotional regulation. Sarah is creative in her therapy and ensures she adapts formulation and therapy for everyone she works with making sure she is always responsive to their needs. She draws on several varied therapeutic models and believes strongly in the therapeutic relationship’s role in promoting recovery and driving healthy change.
Qualifications
2006 - Qualification in Forensic Psychology (Stage 2) – British Psychological Society
2001 - MSc in Forensic Psychology – Leicester University
1996 - BA Psychology Degree – University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Professional Registrations & Memberships
Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) - PLY22639
British Psychological Society (BPS) - 151530
International Society of Schema Therapists (ISST) - Accredited Schema Therapist
EMDR Association UK and Ireland - Accredited EMDR therapist
Specialisms
Adolescent psychology (Trauma, mental health difficulties, attachment difficulties including looked after adolescents, emotional and/or behaviour problems.)
Adult Psychology (PTSD, Complex Trauma, mental health difficulties, relational and interpersonal difficulties, parenting support, struggles with identity.)
Couples looking to work through relationship issues (Including co-parenting, managing divorce, trauma.)
Main Therapeutic Approaches
Schema Therapy (Sarah is an accredited Schema Therapist.)
EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (Sarah is an accredited EMDR practitioner.)
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Katie Hall
Practice Manager
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Katie joined the Lincoln administrative team in August 2020, bringing many years of experience working in the public healthcare sector.
Katie will be your first point of contact in Lincoln and will guide you through the referral process in a warm, friendly and professional manner, whilst ensuring that all of your questions are answered.
With an empathic and considerate nature, Katie will always strive to do her best for everyone who contacts our service.
Heather Winter
Administrator
