Educational Psychologist

Dr Emily France

  • Associate Beacon Community Psychology
  • Educational Psychologist South Gloucestershire
  • Events lead edpsy

Psychologist and parent with a strong desire to understand the perspective of others and work together to create possible, meaningful next steps.

My approach to psychology

I approach my work with children and young people, families and professionals from a position of curiosity and openness, wanting to truly, actively listen to what I am hearing, through the words being shared and what is underlying those words and any behaviour I may be witness to.

I approach my work with children and young people, families and professionals from a position of curiosity and openness

I work therapeutically throughout my role and my main priority is that the people I am working with feel able to open up and trust me through their process of change.

Publications and presentations

A selection of academic, professional and conference work.

Papers

France, E., & Billington, K. (2020). Group supervision: Understanding the experiences and views of emotional literacy support assistants in one county in England. Educational Psychology in Practice 36(4), 405-421.

France, E., & Houlson, S. (2015).Developing time-effective ways of introducing person-centred planning into mainstream schools. DECP Debate 156(1), 5-13

Conference presentations

France, E. (2018). The exploration of action learning and its potential value within a mainstream secondary school context. Thesis poster presented at the Division of Child Psychology trainee conference, Brighton.