Claudia Noël-Michael

Senior Specialist Educational Psychologist

Claudia is a senior specialist educational psychologist (EP) and Coordinator of Redbridge Educational Wellbeing Team (REWT). Claudia has been an EP for 18 years. She has worked in three different LAs, Essex, Camden and currently Redbridge. Claudia has a range of specialisms, firstly supporting schools with critical incidents, secondly, Claudia has worked for a Virtual School for three years and has in-depth knowledge about working with looked after children (LAC).

As Coordinator of the REWT team which includes a Mental Health Support Team (MHST), Claudia has specialised in Wellbeing and Mental Health for the past few years and has worked with all schools, primary, secondary, special, and alternative provisions to make Mental Health a priority in Redbridge schools. Claudia has collaborated with a number of teams who specialise with MH and works closely with CAMHS, Public Health, Social Services, LAC team and Leaving Care team.

Claudia is trained as a CBT practioner, Solihull Approach trainer, trained in Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. Claudia is also trained in ASIST and is currently working with all Redbridge schools to create a suicide safe community.

Claudia has had a variety of supervision opportunities at different levels and as the lead trainer for the Senior Mental Health Lead (SMHL) training course has supervised SMHLs, Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSAs) and has also worked on the Tavistock Doctorate EP training course as a year 1 field work tutor for the past 12 years, supporting and supervising year 1 trainee EPs.