About Dr Freeman
Dr Freeman studied medicine at the University of Nottingham and then trained in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital. She then completed higher specialist training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Tavistock Centre in London. She was awarded the prestigious Laughlin Prize by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2003. After completing higher training, she remained as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at The Tavistock, leading the team working with adolescent first episode psychosis, until she moved to Jersey in 2016. She worked locally in Jersey CAMHS from 2017-2018, after which she set up the Jersey Child and Family Clinic.
She has held important roles in the Royal College of Psychiatrists, previously being Series Editor of their Mental Health and Growing Up factsheets and is the current Chair of their Private and Independent Practice Group. She has long been interested in public education and many of her publications over the years reflect this, including prominent contributions in the books The Young Mind and The Mind - A User’s Guide.
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Clinically she is interested in all aspects of young people's mental health, and has furthered her interest in trauma by training and being accredited as an EMDR practitioner. She is able to carefully distinguish and diagnose difficulties which often have similar presentations, particularly when considering neurodivergence, trauma, anxiety and the emergence of mood disorders and other severe mental illness presentations during adolescence. Â