Alex is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, systemic practitioner, and independent nurse consultant based in Staffordshire. With over 15 years of experience across CAMHS, adult inpatient services, and community mental health, Alex brings a unique blend of clinical insight, regulatory knowledge, and therapeutic skill to every aspect of her work.
She is the founder of New Vision Nursing Limited, through which she offers private therapy for children, adolescents, and young adults; expert witness opinion in mental health-related legal cases for Somek & Associates; and specialist training and consultancy for healthcare teams.
Alex’s approach is trauma-informed, relational, and grounded in systemic thinking. She is passionate about improving the quality and safety of mental health care — whether working directly with young people and families, or supporting services to strengthen practice and culture.
Alex is known for her clarity, compassion, and clinical rigour. She is regularly instructed as a mental health expert witness, invited to speak at professional events, and trusted by healthcare organisations seeking to build safer, more relational mental health services.
She has completed accredited training in systemic family therapy (intermediate level) and maintains a small therapeutic caseload of children, young adults and families alongside her legal and educational work.
Alex’s approach is based on a tapestry of models and evidence-based theories that attempt to explain the roots of psychological distress in children, adolescents, and young adults. Her core profession of mental health nursing has afforded her the ability to carefully assess mental health from multiple perspectives and consider a wide range of presenting difficulties that are often complex and deeply rooted. Being a mental health nurse means that she values and nurtures the key initial stage; the therapeutic alliance and fostering a space that invites curiosity, self-awareness, self-compassion and an exploration of the inner emotional and physical world. Alex’s theapeutic work is informed by models of psychotherapy such as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) and Systemic Psychotherapy. She also applies theories derived from neuroscientific research with a particular interest in the neurobiological impact of disruptions to the early attachment stages between child and parent.