Howard holds an honorary post at the Royal London Hospital where he offers specialist consultation in Paediatric Neuropsychology, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and neuropsychological assessment. Howard has considerable experience of the NHS, having previously been responsible for delivering highly specialised paediatric input to the Royal London Hospital children's services, as well as offering specialist child neuropsychological consultation services for clinicians working in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

Further to his doctoral research on ‘Resilience to PTSD in Emergency Workers', Howard provided consultation to the London Helicopter Emergency Service and London Underground following the July 2005 London bombings, as well as offering specialist educative support and consultation to local Mental Health services.

Howard is a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's / British Red Cross Emergency Psychosocial Support Team, responding to international disasters involving British citizens, with previous deployments to Portugal and Zimbabwe. Howard also sits on the Clinical Advisory Group for the National Trauma Networks, advising on policy and service provision for frontline trauma services.

Howard is committed to delivering regular input and dissemination of skills at national conferences, through publications, and teaching, including providing specialist Paediatric Neuropsychology and Development teaching to Doctoral Clinical Psychology courses at the University of East London (UEL), Royal Holloway University of London, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology (Canterbury Christ Church University), and the University of Surrey. Howard also contributes to the UCL MSc Clinical and Applied Paediatric Neuropsychology Training Programme at the Institute of Child Health. 

Howard has appeared on the BBC 10 O'clock News consulting on Psychological aspects of terrorism, and Channel 4 programming on Child Development and education. He is also regularly a Consulting Psychologist on a number of documentaries and health education programmes in production for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Sky.

As well as holding a clinical caseload, as a director of Recolo, Howard holds senior clinical, supervisory and management roles. He has co-authored an essential reader on childhood brain injury intervention - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Childhood Brain Injury with his co-directors of Recolo.

Membership of Professional Organisations

• Foreign & Commonwealth Office / British Red Cross Specialist Psychological Emergency Trauma Support Team - responding to International disasters involving British citizens.
• British Psychological Society (Chartered status)
• BPS Division of Clinical Psychology
• BPS Faculty for Children & Young People
• British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies

Dr Katie Byard is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, registered with the HCPC and chartered with the British Psychological Society.

Katie has always held a particular interest in the human brain and brain-behaviour relationships and before clinical training, was a Research Psychologist at Imperial College, London, investigating the neuronal correlates of learning in Parkinson’s Disease.

Since gaining her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2002, Katie has chosen to specialise in working with children, young people, and their families. She has worked in the NHS, private and charity sectors delivering clinical input into paediatric, child and adolescent mental health, and child neuropsychology services.

Katie has highly specialised experience in the delivery of neuropsychological rehabilitation following childhood brain injury to young people and their families. She is a passionate advocate of the need to hold a developmental and systemic perspective during rehabilitation and seeks to work collaboratively and creatively with children and their families and all those supporting them, to support psychological and emotional wellbeing, and development. Her strong interest in the development of systemic thinking and practice in rehabilitation includes the integral role of families in a child’s recovery and development, and is a key part of her clinical practice today.

Katie is committed to the regular dissemination of clinical skills at national conferences, through publications and teaching and as Director of Recolo, holds a senior clinical, supervisory and management role. She has co-edited - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Childhood Brain Injury: A practical guide (2015).

Relevant publications include:

• A co-authored chapter with Dr Gosling, ‘Reflections on outcome measurement in child neuropsychological rehabilitation: a child centred approach, in Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury’ edited by Jim and Cole (2020).
• An article discussing resilience in families after childhood brain injury in Brain Injury News, Issue 7 (Spring 2016)

• A book chapter ‘A contextual systemic perspective in child neuropsychological rehabilitation’ in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Paediatric Brain Injury: A practical approach’ edited by Reed, Byard and Fine (2015).
• A co-authored book chapter ‘Helping children with brain injury and behavioural problems: The Importance of Antecedent Regulation’, in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Paediatric Brain Injury: A practical approach’ edited by Reed, Byard and Fine (2015).
• A co-authored article with Dr Gosling discussing systemic approaches to working with paediatric brain injury. In Context, (February 2013).

Jonathan Reed is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist/ Clinical Psychologist and full practitioner paediatric neuropsychologist. He has worked as a senior Paediatric Neuropsychologist at Guy's Hospital London and as a specialist Paediatric neuropsychologist at the Royal London Hospital. He has also held positions in child development, child mental health services and was a researcher on the National Traumatic Brain Injury Study. He works in private practice and is an experienced expert witness.

Jonathan is very interested in using the latest research in developmental neuroscience to help children with neurological and neurodevelopment conditions. He has edited an international textbook on child neuropsychology together with his colleague Jody Warner Rogers (Reed and Warner Rogers; Child Neuropsychology Concepts Theory and Practice: Wiley Blackwell, 2008). He is co-editor of   Neuropsychological rehabilitation of childhood brain injury: A practical guide (2015) edited by Reed, Byard and Fine, Palgrave MacMillan He is on the editorial board of the journal Applied Neuropsychology: Child He has arranged several national conferences on child neuropsychology attracting international speakers. He has extensive experience of assessing and treating children with neurological conditions and with children who have suffered abuse and neglect.