Dr. Tara Murphy

Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Dr Tara Murphy is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist. She has worked within clinical psychology services for 9 years. Tara has been employed at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust since 2003. Her clinical work has spanned Paediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology Services. Tara works with children who experience a broad range of learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties associated with neurological injury or illness. She enjoys working with families and schools. Specialist interests include working with young people who have motor disorders and attention hyperactivity deficit disorder.

Tara trained in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in South London. The focus of her doctoral research was in pain, coping and quality of life in children with sickle cell disease.

Prior to training, she worked as a research psychologist at the Eating Disorder Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London. She has published several research studies in the area of eating disorders; considering the experience of caregiving in anorexia nervosa and also using techniques such as fMRI to evaluate emotional processing.

Tara enjoys teaching. She is a visiting lecturer at Kings College, London, University College London and South Bank University, London.

During 2007, Tara took sabbatical leave from her clinical work in the UK. During the sabbatical, she developed psychological programmes in an orphanage in rural Guatemala. She formulated behavioural, emotional and educational approaches for children and supervised colleagues in implementing the interventions.

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