Email admin@psychologicalpathways.com or call 028 9532 0838. The team can discuss availability, fees, suitability and secure arrangements for sharing relevant records. Avoid sending sensitive medical details in an initial unsolicited email.

Reports are typically prepared within one to two weeks of consultation. Complex instructions or outstanding documentation may affect timing; the team can advise on likely timescales.

Appointments are typically available in approximately two weeks, subject to current clinic availability and referral requirements.

Consultations take place in person on Fridays at Psychological Pathways, City East, 68–72 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1GW. Lift access is available.

A later assessment may still be useful. Dr Morse can consider the claimant’s current presentation alongside available contemporaneous medical records. Suitability will depend on the particular case and questions raised.

An assessment may assist where a solicitor needs an independent medical opinion on injury presentation, the consistency of symptoms with the reported mechanism, causation, recovery or prognosis within an Emergency Medicine consultant’s expertise.

Dr Morse’s clinical background covers injuries arising from road traffic accidents, workplace accidents, slips, trips and falls, sporting incidents, animal bites and serious trauma. Please contact the team to confirm suitability for a specific instruction.

We have a number of trainings/tutorials that complement Build Bridges and we run on an occasional basis depending on demand.  These include:

• Training in Build Bridges for foster carers and Family Placement Social Workers
• Tutorial focussed on similarities and differences between the Narrative Model, Lifestory Work and the Words and Pictures approach that supports decision making on which is the best fit for your case
• Further training on Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy – the DDP – the “Golden thread” through all narrative model work

You can register your interest by contacting admin@psychologicalpathways.com

We also provide consultations to organisations who are considering issues such as:

• how to integrate the model with existing policies and procedures
• training large numbers of staff
• developing a clinic internal to their organisation that can support staff apply the model after training
• Supervision in the model

You can register your interest by contacting lynda@psychologicalpathways.com who will arrange the Consultation with you.

These sessions are open to those who have completed Build Bridges Training and are seeking help with a narrative or further discussion of some aspect of the model.

Support Sessions can include help to:

• identify the priority narrative for the child at this time
• Get feedback on a narrative already started
• navigate issues to do with the caregiving network
• find developmentally sensitive words
• plan the delivery of the narrative
• reflect on the child’s response to a narrative and identify the next therapeutic steps
• Reflect on own response to undertaking this work

They are provided by Ms. Lynda McGill (Specialist Therapeutic Practitioner) – one of the original authors of the Narrative Model articles.

Support sessions typically last one hour and are by videoconference.