Hi, I’m Shabana. I’m a Clinical Psychologist. I’ve been working in the field of psychological assessment and intervention with children and adults since 2008, across a range of settings including Assertive Outreach, Early Intervention in Psychosis Services, Adult Learning Disability Services, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Since qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist, I’ve specialised in working with children, young people and families, with a particular focus on attachment and developmental trauma related experiences and their impact.

I’m a strong advocate of systemic working and the importance of strengthening the network around children and families, and have offered consultation, supervision, training and reflective practice spaces to a range of other professionals and organisations over the years including schools/colleges, residential homes, fostering and adoption services, NHS services and more.   

In my work I have particularly enjoyed finding creative and fun ways to engage with children, young people and actually adults too, and set up Bulby Psychology to be able to create and develop more opportunities for this.

I hear you ask, “Why ‘Bulby’…?” Let me take this opportunity to share the story behind the name.

So, the Bulby story goes back almost 20 years ago. I was looking through my belongings that had been collecting dust in the loft along with my husband, where I came across a secondary school book that had a classroom activity in it which asked us to bring in an object that represented ourselves. You might be able to guess the object I took in… for those that guessed ‘a bulb’ you would be correct! A BULB, and not just any bulb but a solar powered cube with a bulb inside!

Why? My reasoning at the time was that the bulb represented bright light, a positive environment and an optimistic outlook on everything. The name Bulby stuck, and since then I’ve embraced it and use it to describe an outlook on life that brings joy and hope in any darkness.