Dr Diana Luk is a HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist with 18 years of experience working across paediatric and adult clinical health psychology, neuropsychology, CAMHS, perinatal mental health, and talking therapies. She has extensive experience providing psychological assessments, cognitive assessments, formulation and evidence-based psychological intervention for children, adults, families, and their wider networks. Other specialist experience includes Multisystemic Therapy where Diana worked intensely with families where children were at risk of entering the youth offending service and/ or care and adoption services. For this role she completed her training in The Bronx, New York. She also worked with children and families within Looked after Children teams within NHS CAMHS and social care. Her approach is compassionate, trauma-informed and culturally responsive. Diana draws integratively on a range of evidence-based psychological approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and trauma-focused therapy. She also has experience using narrative, systemic, psychodynamic, community and attachment-informed approaches, adapting her work to the individual needs and circumstances of each person within the contexts they live in and the resources available. Diana has a particular interest in working collaboratively with young people and families to understand and adjust to physical health conditions and life-altering diagnosis, with clinical experience ranging across a wide range of paediatric medical specialties, including neurorehabilitation, neuro-oncology, trauma and orthopaedics, cleft lip and palate, gastroenterology, cardiology, lupus, allergy and general medicine. She has also worked specifically in diabetes and endocrinology, in the transitions and adult’s clinics. She is currently working in a highly specialist role in the NHS supporting people living with chronic kidney disease. Alongside her clinical work, Diana is experienced in mentoring, teaching, and training students and healthcare professionals. Her research has contributed to guidance within the Division of Neuropsychology in the British Psychological Society and was presented at the 2025 International Neuropsychology Symposium in New Orleans. She has also published research on fathers' experiences of supporting children with cancer and exploring staff experiences of remote working in CAMHS during COVID-19. She has also contributed to academic work including reviewing material for the Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology and she has co-authored a forthcoming chapter on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in neuropsychology. Areas of interest include: - Psychological support for children, young people and young adults living with anxiety, low mood, and low self-esteem, and/ or chronic health conditions - Psychological support around adjustment to medical treatment and healthcare experiences - Supporting transitions, including young people moving from paediatric to adult services - Bullying and school-related distress - Perinatal wellbeing and parenting support - Equality and Diversity - Neuropsychological assessments across the lifespan Diana completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Leicester and holds a PGCert in Low Intensity CBT from the University of Essex, alongside an MSc and BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Central Lancashire. She is bilingual in Cantonese at a conversational level. Memberships ACP HCPC