Carl is a part of our multidisciplinary team. She is available to help complete a bio-psycho-social assessment so that our patients ensure they can arrive at a management plan for their menopause symptoms that accounts for the full range of factors.

Carla is a clinical psychologist who specialises in seeing patients who have psychology challenges alongside physical illness or complications with a special interest in working with women who have concerns during the female milestones of life, such as menopause.

Carla enjoys seeing patients when they have had the biological aspect of their menopause thoroughly looked at by Mr Lieberman and our medical team. She can then start to discuss the individual ways in which the patient’s environment and psychological state is impacted by their physical symptoms but also how these areas play a part in the ways in which the patient is suffering. Her patient work may be an extended assessment and report helping put together ideas for a broad approach to symptom management. She will help patients decide if psychology support sessions might be helpful.

Carla uses a collaborative and integrative approach, first carefully listening to each client’s needs and then individualising the support accordingly. She is passionate about exploring the mind-body connection and about helping women to enhance their wellbeing through finding lifestyle and thinking changes that can have an influence over symptoms. She uses mindfulness-based and cognitive behavioural strategies to help women make menopause the best time of their lives. At the centre of her work is helping clients to find ways of cultivating greater levels of self-compassion.

Carla obtained her first degree in psychology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992. She gained her PhD in Research Psychology at University College London in 1997 and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2003 (Royal Holloway and New Bedford College, University of London). She also trained as a mindfulness teacher at Bangor University in 2013 and has a diploma in systemic psychotherapy with couples and families (Birkbeck College, University of London 2000). She has worked in the field of clinical health psychology for 16 years and currently works privately and also as a lead psychologist in an NHS clinical health psychology department.