Consultant Clinician | Dublin & London

Dr Aidan Kelly is Clinical Director at Gender Plus. He is a Clinical Psychologist by training and registered in the UK with the Healthcare Professionals Council (no PYL32755) and in Ireland with the Psychological Society of Ireland. He received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2015 from the University of Sydney.

Dr Aidan Kelly has a background in Child and Adolescent Mental Health prior to working in gender. He has clinical and research experience in the area of school absenteeism/ social withdrawal due to mental health reasons.

Dr Aidan Kelly has been working in gender services since 2016, initially at the NHS’ GIDS (2016-21) before moving to the NHS’ Nottingham GIC (2021-23). He has specialist skills in the assessments of gender identity needs and making recommendations for gender affirming medical treatments, where appropriate, for children and adults. He is passionate about increasing access to care for gender questioning people.

He is a member of the British Association for Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS) as well as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). He has been second author on two recent peer-reviewed papers in the area of child and adolescent gender development and presented some initial findings from the Kelly Psychology/Gender Plus service at the recent EPATH conference in Killarney in April 2023. Dr Aidan Kelly is also active in education and training and has delivered training at the HSE funded Gender Identity Skills Training in Kilkenny in 2019 & 2022. Dr Kelly is BUPA registered.

Away from work he enjoys spending time with his family, going for runs and riding his bicycle!

Consultant Clinician | Birmingham

Dr Claudia Zitz is a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family Psychotherapist by training. They are registered with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Dr Claudia Zitz is an elected council member of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS). Dr Zitz is registered with BUPA to deliver gender services.

Dr Claudia Zitz has worked with gender diverse young people and their families in the NHS for 10 years. There they developed clinical pathways and led regional teams in their Consultant role. They have specialist skills in gender assessments, therapeutic exploration and, where indicated, making recommendations for medical interventions. They are committed to anti-oppressive practice and feel passionately about working collaboratively with gender diverse people so they can flourish in their lives and relationships.

Prior to working in gender services, Dr Claudia Zitz has worked in the NHS with young people who struggled with their emotional wellbeing and supported them with experiences such as anxiety, depression, self-harm or neurodiversity (e.g. autism/ASC).

In addition to their clinical work, Dr Claudia Zitz holds an academic post as Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology. They are actively involved in teaching, training, research and supervision, and they have written papers on diverse genders and sexualities in peer reviewed journals and books.

Outside of work they enjoy spending time with their family and dog.

Service Manager

Nicky is a highly experienced Service Manager and Project Manager who worked as an NHS manager for 7 years in mental health and child, adolescent and adult gender services.

She studied Psychology at the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney in Australia, and then completed a Master of Politics and Public Policy.

Nicky first worked as a research assistant, interviewing women who were at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer about different types of stress in their lives, and also as youth worker, with children and young people in care, before moving to the UK.

Nicky worked for a local government regulator and a street child charity, as well as Comic Relief and UNICEF, in roles which developed her project and operational management skills.

She then started working in the NHS in 2014, rolling out a new mental health service for offenders on probation. She rediscovered a passion for psychology and found testimony from those who had benefited from mental health interventions inspiring.

With a recent one-year secondment running a NHS audiology service across multiple sites, with more than 100 staff and significant waiting lists, Nicky brings all kinds of skills and experiences with her to her role at Gender Plus. She has a particular interest in running efficient and responsive services, with an unusual obsession with waiting lists.

Nicky enjoys reading, sitting in the sunshine - where possible - and picnics with friends.

Research Lead | London

Dr Una Masic is a Research Lead with over ten years research experience. Five of these have been spent leading a team of research assistants in the collection and dissemination of key data with clinically referred gender diverse children and young people. With a demonstrated history of working in both higher education and the public sector with both industry sponsors and institute funding bodies, she completed her Doctorate at the University of Sussex and post-doctoral work at the University of Liverpool.

Dr Una Masic is skilled in setting up research and data strategy, research management, governance, design, and data analysis alongside academic writing and dissemination. She has published and disseminated research about clinically referred gender diverse young people both nationally and internationally in peer reviewed journals and notable conferences and has been invited to give presentations to international gender services. She also set up a number of consistent research protocols and governance structures in her prior NHS position. She ensures that the service user voice is respected in her work and has a strong data quality ethic which she brings to all of her projects.

In addition to her research with gender diverse young people, Una also works as a Senior Researcher in the Civil Service. She presides over the generation of research policy and governance structures and scientific rigor in methodology.

Outside of research, she devotes herself to maintaining a strong and dedicated yoga practice.

Senior Clinician | Birmingham

Dr Josh Goulding-Talbot is a Clinical Psychologist and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). He trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Leicester and also obtained a Master of Research degree in Clinical Psychology from University of Birmingham. As part of his training, he has completed a Foundation Level in Systemic Theory and Practice.

Josh has worked with gender diverse young people in the NHS since he qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2021. Prior to this, he has many years of experience working in the NHS with adults and young people in general mental health and specialist services, including with young people with physical health difficulties. He has also delivered training in gender for the University of Leicester Clinical Psychology doctoral programme.

Josh holds values of social justice and compassion in his work. He works hard to adjust his practice to fit the individual, and family, he is working with, including diverse needs such as neurodiversity.

Outside of work, Josh enjoys playing board games with friends, listening to music and playing guitar.

Principal Clinician | Birmingham

Sarah has worked in the NHS for over 20 years and qualified as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist in 2005 after first training as a Social Worker. She is registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

Sarah worked in Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service teams in London and Leeds for 13 years and for five years specifically with young people who used self harm and their families. She started working in the NHS Gender Identity service for young people and families in 2015 and was a co team lead from 2016 to 2021 in Leeds and Birmingham, managing and supervising clinicians. She developed tools to open communication and elicit understanding around medical interventions with young people and their families.

Sarah also worked in adult gender services for a year in Nottingham and provided couple work as well as multi-disciplinary supervision groups.

Sarah has presented at British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS), European Professional Association of Transgender Healthcare (EPATH) and World Professional Association of transgender Healthcare (WPATH) conferences and delivered training and teaching in working with gender diverse young people and their families and carers.

She is a qualified Systemic Supervisor and works as a Clinical Supervisor and Tutor on a qualifying Family Therapy training.

Sarah is a warm and approachable clinician who seeks to work collaboratively with clients. She seeks to take an ethical, curious approach and hear each family member’s views, hopes and worries.

She enjoys spending time with her family, singing, cooking and walking with her dog.

Senior Clinician | London

Dr Lyndsey (Igi) Moon is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and is registered in the UK with the HCPC (PYL 18419). They are a member of the BPS where they have been involved in various committees including the Accreditation Board, Ethics Committee, and the Board of Trustees and they were central to the setting up of the BPS Specialist Gender Register and the BPS Committee on Inclusion, Ethics and Social Justice. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of WPATH.

They were a Residential Social Worker with children and adolescents for several years prior to working as a Senior Practitioner in drug and alcohol services and in therapeutic communities and then as a Peripatetic Specialist Counselling Psychologist in NHS Addiction Treatment Centres. In 2003 Dr Moon won an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Newcastle University for their PhD research and again won a Senior Research Fellowship in 2007 to Warwick, followed by an ESRC Seminar Series award at Warwick 2012-14. They have been a Senior Lecturer at several Universities including City and Roehampton Universities and presently teach at Warwick University.

They continued to work as a practitioner with LGBT+ young people and adults throughout and continue to provide clinical supervision and therapy for transgender and non-binary young people and adults. Dr Moon is BUPA registered to deliver gender services.

Dr Moon is Chair of the MOU2 on Conversion Therapy that represents over 750,000 healthcare workers and leading psychiatric, psychological and therapeutic organisations working to bring about a ban on conversion therapy. Dr Moon meets regularly with the Scottish, Welsh and English Governments and has been invited to meet with the United Nation Independent Expert to comment for the LGBT community on the UK state of play on sexual identity and gender identity.

They have published three edited books, Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity (2010), Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Gender (2007) and ‘The Emergence of Trans: Cultures, Politics and Everyday Life (2018).

In 2019 they were awarded the David Harvey Award by GLAAD for their work on the MOU.

Senior Clinician | Dublin

Dr Fabiola Honorio Neto is an Italian-Brazilian Clinical Psychologist and Chartered member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). Fabiola holds a doctoral degree (PhD) in Psychology obtained in University College Dublin in 2019 and has conducted her doctoral research on ADHD assessment and treatment in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department in collaboration with the Centre for Disability Studies in UCD School of Psychology.

Fabiola has also completed clinical psychology training in mental health services in Brazil in 2010 providing specialist assessment and intervention for adults and people under the age of 18 with mental health difficulties, including a specific ADHD clinic. Fabiola is specialised in psychotherapy delivered to adults and young people with moderate to severe mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She is a psychology lecturer and thesis supervisor and engages in academic activities relevant to her clinical practice and research discipline in developmental psychology, neurodiversity and gender-diverse youth.

Dr Fabiola Honorio Neto has developed specialist skills and interest in the area of gender assessment and support with both young people and adults since working with this service from April 2022. She works alongside Dr Aidan Kelly to run a weekly gender clinic in Dublin and she has developed links with local stakeholder agencies and supports to ensure the holistic needs of transgender and gender diverse young people and adults.

Fabiola has a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion and enjoys travelling and working in different cultures and languages.

Senior Clinician | Birmingham

Matei Dudu is a Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered in the UK with UKCP. Matei has extensive experience delivering family/systemic/individual therapy to young people in Child and Adolescent Mental Health settings (CAMHS) and in private practice. In the last six years, Matei worked as a Highly Specialist Systemic Family Psychotherapist for the Gender Identity Development Service where he led on training and clinical induction.

He provides specialist therapeutic assessments and systemic psychotherapy exploration to adult individuals, couples, families and chosen families, parents, children, and young people exploring, negotiating, and celebrating their diverse gender and sexual identity in different contexts and through different stages of their life.

He is part of an LGBTQ+ choir and is very grateful to his friends, family, and the support the queer community has given him over time. He is interested in how queer people reclaim and renegotiate non-oppressive relationships with psychotherapy. He is also a keen walker and loves music and dancing.

Consultant Clinician | London

Dr Rebecca Adams is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist registered in the UK with the GMC (3065299)

Dr Rebecca Adams completed a psychiatric training in Oxford and a specialist training at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Dr Rebecca Adams has worked as an NHS consultant within a Community CAMHS setting since 1999. Over the years she has been involved in management, service development and teaching but her focus has always been, first and foremost, a clinical one.

As well as an interest and experience in working with young people with gender dysphoria she has extensive experience in diagnosing and managing a range of emotional and mental health issues arising in children and young people including ADHD, ASD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders and psychosis.

Senior Clinician | London

Dr Moja Kljakovic is a BPS and HCPC registered clinical psychologist. She has specialist clinical training in child and adolescent mental health and, in addition to her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, has completed a PhD in the research area of bullying. She has also published academic peer-reviewed research in this field.

Dr Moja Kljakovic has completed specialist training in the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-II) and the Developmental, Dimensional and Diagnostic Interview (3di), which allow her to complete autism assessments in compliance with NICE standards.

Since coming to the UK in 2015 Moja has worked in a CAMHS service in London and has provided outreach to school settings with a focus on autism. She has also worked in the private sector with adolescents in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Moja currently works in the NHS in an adult setting and teaches academically on psychology across the lifespan.

Principal Clinician | London

Shon Grant is a Systemic Psychotherapist who has several years of experience working with transgender and non-binary young people and their families, having worked at the NHS’ GIDS previously.

More details about Shon’s background will be added soon…

Principal Clinician | London

Dr Jos Twist is a Clinical Psychologist registered in the UK with the HCPC. Dr Twist has worked in the NHS since 2013 offering psychological support across a range of community and clinical settings.

Dr Twist has worked at the NHS Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Centre since 2015, with children and young people who are questioning or exploring their gender, providing support both for them, as well as their families and/or carers. Dr Twist has considerable experience of working with gender diverse young people who are struggling with their mood, anxiety, eating difficulties, self-harm, as well as young people who are also neurodiverse or have a diagnosis of autism/ASC.

In addition to therapeutic and exploratory work, Dr Twist also delivers training, teaching, consultation and supervision within this field. Dr Twist also conducts research in this area and has presented at both UK and international conferences on the topics of gender and sexuality.

Principal Clinician | London

Phil is a systemic psychotherapist who qualified from the Tavistock Clinic in 1999. He is UKCP registered and a member of the Association of Family Therapy. He has worked for many years and continues to work in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in East London.

Before training as a systemic psychotherapist Phil worked as a mental health nurse – working with adults.

His main interest is in working with young people and their families, and he offers family therapy, couples therapy, parent support and individual systemic therapy. He has lots of experience working with a variety of different issues including mental health difficulties, relationship and communication difficulties and has a particular interest in supporting gender-questioning young people and their families. He is interested in challenging discriminatory processes and power dynamics that can sometimes lead to a sense of shame or a sense of being misunderstood.

Phil was born in Bristol, comes from a large family, has lived in Denmark and in France, is a father of young adult children, likes playing music with others and plays in a band, and, like many people enjoys travel, eating and drinking.

Principal Clinician | London

Dr Angeline Dharmaindra is a Clinical Psychologist and is registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and the British Psychological Society (BPS). She trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Essex, has obtained a Masters Degree in Mental Health Studies from Kings College London and obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Low Intensity CBT Interventions from University College London. She has also undertaken ADOS-2 training, which is a standardised assessment tool used diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorders in children and adults.

Dr Angeline Dharmaindra has worked in Health and Social Care since 2007 and has worked with gender diverse young people and their families in the NHS since 2016. She has skills in highly specialist gender assessments, therapeutic gender exploration and assessment for gender-related medical interventions. She has delivered training in gender for the University of Essex Clinical Psychology doctoral programme and also provides consultation to local agencies working with gender diverse young people.

Prior to working in gender services, Dr Angeline Dharmaindra has worked in the NHS with young people with mental health problems and supported them with experiences such as anxiety, depression and self-harm. She also has a strong interest in neurodiversity and neurodevelopmental conditions which complements her gender work.

Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family, exercising and travelling.

Senior Clinician | London

Dr Caroline Floyd is a Clinical Psychologist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Essex where she gained an additional Foundation Level Qualification in Systemic Family Therapy.

Caroline has extensive experience working in the NHS with both adults and young people. She has supported children and families in specialist and general mental health services and has worked with a variety of presentations including OCD, anxiety, low mood and eating disorders.

Caroline started working with gender diverse young people within the NHS in 2021 where she conducted assessments with individuals who were questioning and exploring their gender identity. She also worked systemically with families and schools. In her approach, Caroline considers the unique needs of the individual and is passionate about supporting neurodevelopmental conditions.

Outside of work, she is happiest when on a beach, playing football or with her friends and family.

Senior Clinician | London

Dr Clíodhna Cork is a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist who completed her doctoral training at the University of East London in 2022.

Clíodhna previously worked in NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), specifically in neurodevelopmental assessment and psychosocial support. She currently works in the NHS in a maternal mental health service. Clíodhna has completed training in the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-II) which allows her to contribute to autism assessments in compliance with NICE standards.

Clíodhna is passionate about social justice in the area of mental health and works in a way that acknowledges social and cultural contexts and the intersection of different identities. She strives to create a collaborative therapeutic space that challenges dominant narratives around gender, queerness, and neurodiversity.

Clíodhna grew up in Ireland, and lived in Bordeaux and Glasgow, before moving to London in 2019.

Outside of work Clíodhna enjoys yoga, cycling around, and attending to the needs of her cat Benji.

Service Administrator

Suzanne worked as an assistant in a primary school class for autistic children in Ireland before she began working in healthcare admin in the UK in 2016.

Before joining the team at The Tavistock’s GIDS in 2020 she led the administrative team at a busy health clinic. These experiences have made Suzanne passionate about access to healthcare for young people.

Outside of work Suzanne is happiest when travelling, reading or watching old films.