ABOUT VICTORIA

Victoria Plant is a Chartered Psychologist with The British Psychological Society (Associate Fellow) and a registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

She currently works as Consultant Psychologist for three Police Forces - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire Constabularies. In this role, she undertakes a variety of work including pre-employment assessments, fitness for role, trauma awareness and screening, risk assessments, and advising Occupational Health clinicians on implementing psychological screening and support for officers and staff. Victoria has worked as Consultant Psychologist for the Police for fifteen years.

Victoria has worked as a Consultant Psychologist on media productions for the past six years, providing contributor assessments and on & off-location support, from pre-production through to post-production aftercare & transmission advice. Productions worked on include all series of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins; the BBC’s A Royal Road to Wembley; DNA Family Secrets; Comic Relief 2021 & Sport Relief: The Heat is On 2020 & 2021; Breaking Ibiza and Yorkshire on the Job amongst others. She is an approved Channel 4, BBC, Netflix and AmazonPrime psychologist.

Victoria also works as Consultant Psychologist for The Home Office, and Ministry of Defence, Porton Down/DSTL, Police Digital Services. In this role she delivers Trauma Awareness & Defusing training, Stress and Resilience Workshops, and offers in-house risk assessments, screening, and support for employees working and undertaking government research in high-risk roles, e.g. recently completing a project supporting key researchers in the area of Modern Slavery. She is an advisor on the SilverCloudHealth Digital Mental Health Platform’s Blue Light Expert Group.

Victoria holds a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Psychotherapy and is trained in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She has worked in clinical practice in private, charitable, and NHS settings for twenty-five years. She works with a range of mental health issues, including trauma, PTSD, addiction, and anxiety, and has previously been employed in a clinical capacity undertaking therapy and counselling, for The Oxford Stress and Trauma Clinic, Nuffield College Oxford, and Action on Addiction. Victoria is a member of the BPS Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Section, and the UKPTS. She is also registered with BUPA, AXA PPP and Cigna Healthcare insurance companies, and is on the public register of data controllers. Victoria has been on the BPS Register of Qualifications in Test Users (Accredited Psychometric Personality Assessor, Occupational) since 2013.

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