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Meet Phil Pickett
Find out more about Phil in his pen portrait below. Contact us if you have any questions about our team and/or the services we provide.
Phil is a Senior Educational Psychologist. He has worked as an Educational Psychologist for over 20 years within a number of different Local Authority Services in the Midlands and the North West and as an associate tutor on the Educational Psychology training course at Birmingham University.
For the majority of his career he has worked as a senior manager in either a team/service management capacity or as a Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist for children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC).
In his specialist role, Phil has developed range of accredited courses which he has delivered both locally and nationally to a range of service providers (including public, private and charitable sectors). He has also been involved in a number of regional and national projects as well as working extensively on strategic developments within schools and Local Authorities.
He has also been a member of 6 different multi-disciplinary assessment, diagnosis and management groups for young people with ASC.
Phil’s main area of interest currently centres on the effects of a range of unconscious executive functions on decision making and performance.
What is important to me?
Truthfulness
Fairness
Thoughtfulness
Carefulness
Equanimity
What I would like to get better at
Sleeping (I’m terrible at sleeping)
Playing my saxophone (I have been going to my saxophone teacher for over 5 years and he says that I am still the worst student he has ever had!)
Understanding Minecraft
What people like about me
My wife says that I am very patient and quite kind
My children think that I am quite funny
My saxophone teacher likes that I keep trying even though I struggle a lot
I hope that most other people think that I am ok – I’m happy with ok
My Job
I mainly work in schools, sometimes with teachers, sometimes with parents and sometimes with students and I try to use my training and experience in Psychology to help when people are finding things difficult
What we might do together
Through talking and maybe doing some puzzles and filling in some questionnaires we can hopefully come up with a plan to make your life easier
What happens if you don’t want to work with me
Whenever I might work with you I will always check out with you if you are happy to work with me at the beginning and if, for any reason at all, you don’t want to that’s absolutely fine!