Welcome

Evolve Psychology Services is an independent psychology and neurodevelopmental practice, founded by Dr Laura Powling, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Our practice is dedicated to providing the highest quality of service to clients across the UK. Evolve offers extensive experience, providing independent psychological assessments for the courts and parole boards in Clinical and Forensic Psychology. We can provide assessments in criminal/prison law, family law, immigration law and medico-legal cases, including assessment of personal injury.

Additionally, Evolve Psychology Services offers neurodevelopmental and mental health/ psychological assessments to individuals, including children (0-19) and adults. We are also committed to providing the highest quality of training to professionals and legal teams across both fields, in addition to clinical supervision.

Following its expansion, Evolve now has a number of clinical and forensic psychologists incorporated as associates at Senior or Consultant level with backgrounds in Forensic Psychology, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Looked After Children’s Services and Adult Mental Health/ Learning disability Services. We also have Speech and Language Therapists, Consultant Psychiatrists, CAMHS practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Occupational Therapists.

Evolve Psychology bases its practice in empirical research, ensuring that all assessments, clinical decision-making and treatment planning is supported by the latest research. We utilise structured and evidence-based assessments which allow for assessment, case formulation and treatment planning for clients across all age ranges and for a variety of services. In particular, Evolve Psychology Services is dedicated to offering clear and focused assessments for clients presenting with complex needs.  We provide clear guidance for treatment planning to ensure that all clients receive the best and most appropriate service.

Dr Powling and Associates of Evolve also continue to work clinically to ensure that they are active in their fields of expertise and that they are kept abreast of leading evidence-based practices.

Solicitors

“Dr Powling gave evidence at a parole hearing, having been instructed as an independent psychologist by my instructing solicitors. Her report and analysis of the assisted prisoner was thorough in its background detail, impeccable in its clinical findings and robust and well argued in its conclusions. The reader was left in no doubt that all the relevant material had been considered carefully not just read and ignored.

Dr Powling demonstrated an easy, confident style in evidence and was refreshingly engaging when discussing her findings which made her report all the more valuable as evidence before the panel. I would seek her assistance in future similar cases.

Top Qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity”

“I have worked with Evolve Psychology on a number of cases which have required in depth psychological analysis for Parole hearings. Dr Powling and her associates have always been very professional in their dealings with both our clients and ourselves and not only their reports are of the highest quality, but their oral evidence is very well delivered and reasoned. I find the best part of working with Evolve is the communication between myself and the associates. They have been able to make even the most difficult of cases seem straight forward by providing clear explanations as to their reasoning in reports and assistance with relaying this to clients. I would not hesitate to use Evolve Psychology again in the future.”

Feedback from Service users

“Thank you so much to you all. I feel like someone has finally taken the chance to understand our concerns about our child, and that we have been taken seriously”

“The whole assessment process was so accessible as parents. The team made us feel completely at ease and X (child) loved them!”

“The team were lovely with us all. I’m so glad we took the decision to have an assessment done, as we had been waiting for so long. We feel like we can finally get the support we need for X (child).”

“I’d always felt that I was a little bit different growing up. Now that I have had an assessment for Autism, I can understand why that was. It has really helped me. Thank you to Laura and the team.”

“We were made to feel at ease from the start”

“We felt like they really cared about us as a family”