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Background

Ruth is a Clinical Psychologist who graduated from UCL with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2017. Prior to clinical training, Ruth worked in an anxiety disorders research group at King's College London, and at UCL developing NICE guidelines for mental health. Ruth has skills and experience in a range of child and adolescent interventions and in multi-agency working.

Ruth has a strong commitment to developing innovative services that are acceptable to young people and families who may find difficulty accessing mainstream support. In addition to running the DISCOVER programme in schools, Ruth is leading the Lambeth schools initiative in conjunction with Lambeth CAMHS, and led the project to develop the DISCOVER app in 2019.