About

Dr Tara Quinn

About Me

Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo is a HCPC Registered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of The British Psychological society.

She has over 20 years clinical experience in mental health, neurodivergence, disability and human behaviour. Tara runs her own private Practice in West Sussex and works with adults with a variety of emotional health needs.

Tara is the Founder and CoDirector of Conversation Starter Project CIC, which is a grassroots community project tackling emotional health issues and loneliness in the community.

Tara is also the Founder of The Human Animal Welfare Alliance (HAWA) which supports the emotional health of those working in the animal rescue and welfare sector.

Tara is an is an author and the host of The Adversity Psychologist Podcast. She is also an accomplished broadcaster and media expert globally.

She has a keen interest in the ethics of mental health provision and regulation of mental health practitioners including the dissemination of information via the media and social media. She has been involved in many innovative collaborations with health and wellbeing platforms with the aim of bringing good quality mental health knowledge to the public.

Her extraneous roles include Specialist advisor for the CQC and Volunteer for the British Red Cross via a collaboration with the British Psychological Society.

Private Practice

Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo is the owner of a private Psychology service in Sussex, UK. She offers a number of assessment and treatment approaches to adults with psychological difficulties and mental health conditions and also adults with learning disabilities and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Her purpose is helping people to understand and manage their emotional wellbeing and empowering them to. She specialises in helping people formulate both new and longstanding conditions and helping people take a fresh look at longstanding issues. She believes in robust evidenced based assessment and treatment. She takes pride in her approach combining compassionate and evidenced based practice in order to empower people to create a core shift in managing the difficulties they face. She specialises in supporting people following adverse life experiences.

Dr Tara has a special interest in bringing the principles of psychology to communities to help them cope with adversity and support each other with mental wellbeing. She achieves this through her media work and philanthropic and humanitarian projects she is involved in. She regularly appears in a variety of media outlets including TV, Radio and print publications.

She is proud to be collaborating with some amazing projects, organisations and charities, with the aim of enhancing emotional wellbeing in a variety of areas and creating change using evidenced based approaches. Collaborating enables her to reach a wider audience and enhance the wellbeing of more individuals than just in her private practice alone.

She looks forward to hearing from you either for individual psychological consultation and treatment, consultancy, training, collaboration or media consultancy.

Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo

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