Sophie Chalker

I am currently in my first year of training on the Oxford Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course, in the 2025-2028 cohort. My first placement will be in adult eating disorders, based in Buckinghamshire. Prior to training, I completed my BSc in Psychology and Criminology at the University of Gloucestershire. Following completion of my undergraduate degree, I worked at a helpline supporting victims of intimate image abuse. I then completed a MSc in Theory and Practice in Clinical Psychology at the University of Reading and did a placement at the Anxiety and Depression in Young People (AnDY) Research Clinic as an honorary assistant psychologist. Alongside this I worked as a support worker for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs.

Following this, I worked as an assistant psychologist in the Healthy Child Programme in Cambridge which was focused on primarily perinatal and infant mental health. In my second assistant psychologist role I worked in a CAMHS neurodevelopmental service in Oxford.

My clinical and research interests include child and young people's mental health, neurodiversity, eating disorders, women's physical and mental health and perinatal mental health.