Meet Dr Audrey Daisley

Dr Audrey Daisley is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist specialising in working with people affected by neurological injury and illness and their families. Since 1995, she has specialised in neuropsychological rehabilitation and has led the development of innovative and individualised family-focused support services in this context. She now divides her time between her private practice. Connect Neuropsychology and a working as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in the NHS in Oxford.

Audrey trained at the University of Newcastle, qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist in 1992. Her first post was within a Paediatric Clinical Psychology Service with South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, where she worked with children and families affected by a wide range of health conditions (such as neurological disorders, acquired brain injury, epilepsy and diabetes). This sparked Audrey’s passion for working with families who were navigating the journey through illness.

In 1995 she took up the post of Clinical Neuropsychologist at an NHS post-acute neuro-rehabilitation service (known then as Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre and now renamed the Oxford Centre for Enablement (OCE) - a Level 1 Tertiary Specialist Rehabilitation Unit (which is part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust). Audrey’s post was specifically created to develop a new psychological support service for children with a parent with neurological illness and injury (the first of its kind within the NHS) and this provided her with the opportunity to innovate and XXXX. Audrey has remained working at the OCE and now leads its Clinical Neuropsychology Department and Family Psychological Support Service. She is recognised as an expert in working with families, especially child relatives, affected by neurological illness and injury.

Audrey is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is a full member of its Division of Neuropsychology; she is on the BPS’s Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and is regulated by the HCPC.

Throughout her career, Audrey has been committed to supporting the work of Third sector organisations such as the Encephalitis Society, developing and facilitating a family resilience-building day for them in 2018 in conjunction with the London Fire Service (a short film about this can be viewed on the Society’s website).

Audrey and her NHS team won the QuDOS in MS award in 2015 for the development of an innovative group intervention for children who had a parent with multiple sclerosis. Audrey has also acted as an expert advisor to the Motor Neurone Disease Association, co-producing a range of web-based information “MND Buddies” for young children about MND; This resource was shortlisted in the top five (of 260 entries) in the British Medical Association PLG Patient Information Awards. During the covid-19 pandemic, Audrey was invited to join the steering group of a multi-professional special interest group - now named Anchor Point (and is a part of UKABIF), specifically to drive the development of research and practice in family interventions in the context of acquired brain injury; Audrey remains an active member of Anchor Point and more information can be found about this on UKABIF’s website (UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum).

In her private practice, Audrey has established long-term working relationships with several case management companies and legal firms. Since 2019, she has worked with RWK Goodman Solicitors to co-develop and deliver a highly regarded professionals conference “Ahead Together” focusing on family issues in brain injury. (Links to this here).

Audrey offers a wide range of highly specialist psychological interventions for clients, their family members and the teams and professionals that support them. Working with treating teams, via ongoing reflective practice supervision groups, staff training, or one-off case consultation sessions, Audrey aims to help bring clarity and direction to the complexity that comes with brain injury.

Audrey is an experienced speaker and is regularly invited to present at brain injury conferences and publishes her work in clinical and academic journals and textbooks. She is a reviewer for the journal Brain Injury.