Credentials
Credentials, registration and professional standards.
A clear record of the training, regulation and professional experience underpinning Dr Fabienne Palmer’s work at Wise Mynd.
Professional depth, made visible.
Credentials should do more than fill a list. They allow prospective clients, referrers and professional partners to understand the level of training, oversight and accountability behind the work.
Dr Palmer’s practice combines doctoral clinical training with advanced therapeutic study, supervision, teaching and sustained work across complex psychological and organisational settings.
Education
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) — University of East London
- Postgraduate Certificate in Evidence-Based Treatment (PGCert) — University of Reading
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, First Class — University of Kent
Registrations and chartership
- HCPC-registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist
- Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK), and the ACP Staff Health and Wellbeing Advisory Board
- EMDR Association UK
Professional memberships and affiliations
- Black and Asian Therapist Network (BAATN)
- Association of Black Psychologists UK
- Association for Behavioural and Contextual Science (ABCS)
- Compassionate Mind Foundation
- OK Positive Advisory Board
- Point of Care Foundation, Schwartz Facilitators Community Forum
- British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, External Scrutiny Group
- NHS England BAME Network
Specialist training
Trauma and clinical intervention
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), Parts 1, 2 and 3 (2019–2022)
- Trauma-focused CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
- GTEP (Guided Trauma Exposure Protocol)
- Investigative interviewing with children who have disclosed sexual abuse (2019)
Team wellbeing and reflective practice
- Schwartz Rounds facilitator training (2022)
- Heads and Hearts reflective practice model — training (2022)
- Critical Incident Staff Support (CISS, 2022)
- REACTMH (REACT Mental Health) Train the Trainer (2022)
- Compassion-focused staff support (2021)
Cultural and racial healing
- Emotional Emancipation Circles (EEC), Community Healing Network methodology (2022)
- Culturally adapted CBT for racial trauma
- Tree of Life advanced training (2021)
- Compassion Circles
Therapeutic modalities
- Advanced Schema Therapy training (2022)
- Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), introduction and advanced (2021)
- Motivational Interviewing (2022)
- PROSOCIAL facilitator training (2021)
- AMBIT (Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment), introduction (2020)
Coaching, leadership and neurodiversity
- Coaching for Psychologists (2024)
- Leadership mentoring (2022–present)
- Neurodiversity training (2023)
Supervision, quality and bystander practice
- Clinical supervisor training (2019–2020)
- QI (Quality Improvement) method (2021)
- Active Bystander training (2021)
Programme and project management
- Project and programme management short courses (2022–present)
Academic and teaching
Tutor and Visiting Clinical Consultant, Royal Holloway, University of London
Honorary Teaching Fellow, University College London (UCL)
Mentor to trainee psychologists, University of Essex
Selected roles
Current
Chief of Equity and Inclusion, Smart About Health 2024–present
Leading equity and inclusion strategy and delivery across programmes, culture and organisational practice; appointed Head of Equity and Inclusion in 2024, now Chief.
Founder, Director and Lead Clinical Psychologist, Wise Mynd Ltd 2019–present
Specialist wellbeing therapy, consultation, supervision, mentoring, reflective practice, teaching and training. Clients include Unmind, Creative Access, UCL, the NHS and the Point of Care Foundation. Also Honorary Teaching Fellow, UCL.
Previously
Programme Lead, Transforming Cancer Services Team for London 2024–2026
Leading a three-year, pan-London transformation programme to improve the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of cancer care.
Racial Equity Staff Wellbeing Psychologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 2022–2024
Contributed to the development and delivery of specialist services focused on racial equity and staff wellbeing for approximately 25,000 staff.
Staff Wellbeing Psychologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2021–2022
Staff wellbeing interventions including therapy, crisis management, psychological debriefs, reflective practice, Schwartz Rounds and training.
Specialist Senior Clinical Psychologist and Investigative Interviewer, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust 2018–2021
The UK’s first Barnahouse pilot service for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse; deputising for the consultant clinical psychologist, with leadership, line management, research and service-user involvement.
Clinical Psychologist in Training, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust 2015–2018
Trained across psychodynamic, CBT and third-wave, systemic, narrative, liberation, community, cognitive and neuropsychological approaches, and across the lifespan.
Account Manager, BT 2011–2013
Corporate and enterprise sales with annual targets over £1m; a pre-clinical role that underpins a fluency with senior professional and commercial contexts.
Standards, scope and accountability
Wise Mynd’s private clinical services are for adults aged 21 and over. Clinical work is formulation-led and draws on evidence-based psychological methods selected for the individual following careful assessment.
The Seven Pillars of Wise Mynd is an evidence-informed developmental framework used to organise reflection across seven domains. Its Reflection Snapshot is not a diagnostic test or validated psychometric measure.
Wise Mynd is a private psychology practice and is not a crisis or emergency service. Professional registration can be checked independently using the HCPC Register.
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