Dr Antonina Martin

Profession: Clinical Psychologist

Client groups: Children, Adolescents, Parents, Families

Work area: London and the surrounding counties

Legal area of expertise: Family and Criminal

Rates/funding: Dr Martin accepts both legal aided and privately funded cases.

Profile: Dr Martin is a Clinical Psychologist specialising in the area of children, adolescents, parents and families, and is currently employed within Hackney’s Children and Family Services. She has specialist expertise working with families in which there are child protection concerns. This includes assessing parental risk, parenting capacity and the impact of mental health and/or learning disabilities upon parenting, as well as the impact of trauma, abuse and neglect on a child’s development. She also has extensive skills and experience providing evidenced-based psychological interventions with children and adults following traumatic experiences, including developmental trauma and childhood abuse. In addition, Dr Martin routinely works with children, young people and adults with neurodevelopmental difficulties such as autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities. Alongside her clinical commitments, Dr Martin completes independent assessments in all aspects of family, criminal and civil law.