Victoria Plant is a Chartered Psychologist with The British Psychological Society (Associate Fellow) and a registered practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC practitioner psychologist). She is a member of the BPS Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Section, and the BPS Media Ethics Advisory Group.

She has worked as the Consultant Psychologist for three Police Forces - Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Constabularies - for sixteen years. In this role she has undertaken 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 a Consultant Psychologist on media productions for the past ten years, advising on Duty of Care protocols, providing contributor assessments; crew mental health training and support; 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’ & NBC’s Traitors; BBC Studios Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods; BBC Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams; Netflix Squid Games: The Challenge; A Royal Road to Wembley; DNA Family Secrets Series 1,2 & 3; Comic Relief 2021-2024 & Sport Relief 2020-2022; Breaking Ibiza and Yorkshire on the Job; Netflix Heart of Invictus amongst others. She is an approved Channel 4, BBC, Netflix, ITV, Sky Documentaries, NBC, Fox TV and Amazon Prime psychologist. Please see the media page for a full list of productions worked on.

Victoria also works as Consultant Psychologist for The Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Police Digital Services & Motorsport Vision (Brands Hatch). In these roles she delivers staff Trauma Awareness & Defusing training, Stress and Resilience Workshops, and offers in-house risk assessments, screening & support for employees working in high-risk roles, e.g. recently completing projects supporting key Home Office researchers in the areas of Domestic Abuse, Modern Slavery & Asylum Seekers. She has been an advisor on the SilverCloudHealth Digital Mental Health Platform’s Blue Light Expert Group; and is on the welfare review board for Nuffield College, Oxford.

Victoria holds a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Psychotherapy and is trained in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She is trained in EMDR, Levels 1-3. She has worked in clinical practice in private, charitable and NHS settings for thirty 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. 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.