Duncan’s Bio

Duncan is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, based in London, with over 30-years experience working in mental health and wellbeing across the NHS, social care, higher education, and charitable sectors. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London (UCL) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/ucl-division-psychology-and-language-sciences.

He is Director of MindMonkey Associates www.MindMonkeyAssociates.com, and is a consultant with Changing Minds www.changingmindsuk.com . As well as providing mental well-being strategy, consultation, mentoring, supervision, research, and training cross a range of UK and international settings, he is practicing clinician working across youth and adult mental health settings.  Formerly, he was Joint-Programme Director ‘Leading Transformation and Change’ at the Anna Freud Centre www.annafreud.org.

He collaborates widely with people with lived experience of mental health services, the most recent project being ‘The Kid in the Crate’ www.KidintheCrate.co.uk . He writes extensively, recently contributing to chapters on ‘service provision’, and ‘outcomes’ in the acclaimed ‘Child Psychology: pathways to good practice’ Pote, Picciotto and Norris (2024) www.wiley.com/en-us/Child+Psychology%3A+Pathways+to+Good+Practice-p-9781119861218

He is the developer of the goals-based outcomes (GBO) tool (see www.goals-in-therapy.com) which is now used extensively across child and adult mental health service in the UK, Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, and has been translated into 13 languages.  He has consulted widely in the UK and internationally on the implementation of working with goals.  Above all his focus is on the effective application of complex psychological ideas in ways that make then accessible and acceptable, to enrich and enhance lives.