Dr. Barbara Gieniusz-Jones

Dr Barbara Gieniusz-Jones (DClin) is a UK-trained Principal Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist. Barbara is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the UK. She completed a Clinical Doctorate at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2014. Prior to moving to England, Barbara completed a Masters degree in Psychology at Warsaw University in Poland in 2006.

Since the doctorate Barbara has worked with children and adolescents in various outpatient services in London. After qualifying Barbara completed additional training in Dilectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT-A & MBT-F) approaches, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for trauma, and parenting programmes. In 2023 Barbara also graduated with merit from Kings College London completing a diploma in Leadership in Child and Adolescent Services.

A special interest of Barbara is group work, she has years of experience in running, setting up and supervising groups. She is trained in the NVR parenting approach designed to manage challenging or aggressive behaviour. She has run workshops and psycho-education groups for parents as well as long-term therapeutic groups for young people: social skills, compassionate-skills, mindfulness, managing anxiety and various others.

Barbara has particular interest in MBT approaches, helping young people and their families regulate emotions and understand their own and other people’s internal worlds. Barbara has extensive experience in working with anxiety, OCD, PTSD and depression, as well as emotional regulation difficulties. To support neurodiverse young people Barbara finds it important to work with schools and families to support their needs and understand each other. Barbara is experienced in ADHD and ASD assessments and is trained in Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), a licensed tool to assess for autism.