Sam Warner
Barnardos childrens charity, UK
Biography
Sam spent 20 years at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK first as a PhD student and then as a research fellow, leaving in 2015 to concentrate on clinical work and strategic development. Sam is a consultant clinical psychologist, qualifying nearly 25 years ago. As an academic and practitioner, Sam has always specialized in child abuse, sexual violence and domestic abuse, and their impact on mental health: from dissociation to self-harm. She has written books, reports and papers on these issues. Sam has worked for the British Department of Health as a national advisor on sexual violence and mental health. Currently Sam provides clinical oversight to Barnardos Safer Futures services, North West, UK.