Psychiatry Team

Dr Shipra Berg
Consultant Psychiatrist

  • Dr Shipra Berg is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who has been working for the NHS for nearly 20 years. She has experience in assessing and diagnosing a wide range of conditions affecting children and adolescents presenting to CAMHS.   

    More recently, Dr Berg has worked with a CAMHS ADHD assessment and treatment Team in Surrey and is currently working with the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service in Sussex, carrying out Autism Assessments. She also works privately in other settings. Dr Berg also has specialist experience in managing Tourettes Syndrome which she gained whilst training at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is experienced in the assessment of Autism using ADOS, 3Di and ADI-R. 

  • Wednesdays

Dr Lisa Connell
Consultant Psychiatrist

  • Dr Lisa Connell is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist experienced in many areas of mental health and specialises in providing psychiatric assessments for children and adolescents and assessing neurodevelopmental conditions. 

    Working in the field of mental health since 2004, she has worked within the NHS for 20 years, where she developed a skill for approaching assessments in a holistic way that considers all areas of a person's life and what makes them unique. Dr Connell continues to work within the NHS as a Consultant alongside private work. 

    She works collaboratively with patients to support them through difficult times and supports them to bring about change at the right pace for them, while also helping them to move forward with their lives. 

    Dr Connell is kind, considerate, and passionate about making a difference to the families and young people she works with. Her feedback from young people and colleagues is outstanding. 

    She came to psychiatry thanks to a keen interest in the mind-body connection. After completing her medical degree at St Barts and The Royal London Medical School, Dr Connell trained in Psychiatry at the highly competitive training scheme at St George’s and South West London under the supervision and tutelage of some of our national experts in mental health. In 2008, Dr Connell moved to Bristol to complete her training in Child Psychiatry.

    Dr Connell has a wealth of experience in managing a wide range of psychiatric conditions including anxiety, OCD, depression, psychosis and eating disorders. She has vast experience in working with people who have neurodiversity. Her NHS posts have included both community settings and inpatient work as well as most recently working with people at a time of mental health crisis.

    Dr Connell has been a trainer to psychiatric trainees during her time in the NHS and Safeguarding lead doctor for a large mental health trust.

    “Dr Connell is compassionate and kind, and balances this approach with rigour and excellent current knowledge and skills. She has an excellent style of communicating with young people; she is thoughtful, open, and listens carefully to allow people to be heard.”

Hannah Creaven

Registered Mental Health Nurse and Non Medical Prescriber

  • Hannah is an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist with over 10 years experience working within an NHS Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder specialist services. She is a registered Mental Health Nurse and a Systemic Family Practitioner, with extensive experience in delivering Family therapy for Eating disorders, running parent support groups and other groups for young people with Eating Disorders.

    Hannah also has an interest in Neurodevelopment Disorders, she is a non medical prescriber and has experience in starting and titrating medication for child, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. She is also experienced in using ADOS and ADI-R to support the assessment of Children, Adolescents and Adults for Autism Spectrum Condition.

  • Immediate availability on Thursdays

Dr Philippa Buckley
Consultant Psychiatrist

  • Dr Philippa Buckley is a leading private Consultant Psychiatrist in London specialising in treating 6-17-year-olds for a range of mental health conditions including eating disorders. Dr Philippa Buckley is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist with experience working both in outpatient and inpatient eating disorders services. She has extensive NHS experience in generic child and adolescent psychiatry and eating disorders, having developed and leading a community eating disorders service for children and young people (CEDS-CYP).

    As a parent herself, Dr Buckley has a passion for helping solve the root cause of problems in adolescents and children so that patients are better equipped to lead healthy adult lives.

    From early in her career, Dr Buckley developed an interest in child and adolescent care and she passionately believes that providing treatment early on, helps prepare our youth to lead more fulfilled lives and has committed her career to this.

  • Immediate availability on Fridays