An Introduction to Safeguarding Adults for Volunteers and Temporary Staff

Dr Charlotte Bolt is a clinical psychologist working within Bedfordshire Paediatrics and CAHMS, having previously worked in Bedfordshire within the Children Development Centre (CDC) and Neurodevelopmental team in CAHMS. Charlotte draws from multiple psychological models with her work, particularly Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and systemic practice.

Charlotte is passionate about making clinical psychology accessible, with a strong interest in Community Psychology and voluntary work. She has worked across many charitable organisations, including START (Students and Refugees Together), Jeremiah's Journey (Children Bereavement), The Multiple Sclerosis Society and MIND. Her work extends to Kenya, Ghana and India within orphanages, universities and schools

Charlotte also works privately and voluntarily with her therapy dog, where her clients include adults with learning difficulties or histories of trauma, and children with autism and emotional difficulties. She hopes to soon publish research into the practice and ethics of integrating dogs into psychological therapies, and she continues to develop her clinical skills training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).