Dr Siobhan Mellor

Siobhan is an HCPC registered, Chartered Educational Psychologist. She is ESF Apprenticeships Director of Pedagogy.

Siobhan excels in developing effective operational systems and teams and is currently responsible for leading the academic teams that create the course content, as well as the 3D team that bring it to life in our virtual learning environment. 

Siobhan started her career as a primary school teacher and went on to train as an educational psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. As a respected and experienced educational psychologist with over twenty-five years’ of experience she has worked extensively with children and young people in mainstream and special schools in Medway and Kent local authorities. Siobhan has worked collaboratively with SENCOs and teachers in mainstream and special schools to support whole-school systems and interventions for pupils with SEND. Siobhan has also worked as part of a multi-disciplinary ASD assessment team with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Siobhan continues to work as one of the practising EPs within Real Group’s Real Psychology service, delivering psychological assessment and interventions in mainstream schools within Kent and within a specialist secure education setting.

She is a Member of the Education and Training board of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of the Accreditation Board of the British Dyslexia Association.

Siobhan completed her Doctorate in Educational Psychology at UCL in 2021 on online pedagogy for teacher professional development.