Stephen Barry (Lead Clinician/Clinical Team Manager)
Stephen Barry is a social worker and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, accredited with Social Work England and UKCP. He is the Clinical Team Manager/Lead for the CAMHS based multi-disciplinary Be Safe Service within Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust. Stephen has extensive experience in the harmful sexual behaviour field and has a particular interest in trauma and attachment. He has strong commitment to working systemic and engaging with the system around the child. Stephen has had a number of advisory roles including for the SARSAS/Rape Crisis Sibling Sexual Abuse Project and the Guidance on Sibling Sexual Behaviour developed by the Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, and has supported the development of the Keep Safe Intervention Programme for young people with learning disabilities who have harmed sexually, and their parents/carers. Stephen is also a Trustee for Circles of Support and Accountability, South West.
Alice Hunt (Senior Specialist Therapist)
Alice is a qualified probation officer and therapeutic counsellor. After working for many years as a probation officer specialising in therapeutic group work, Alice worked for the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity dedicated to the prevention of sexual abuse, where she specialised in treatment of boys aged 15 – 18 years with harmful sexual behaviour, providing assessment, treatment and training in this area. She currently works part-time for Be Safe and the rest of her time as a freelance trainer, counsellor and consultant, providing services for a variety of organisations.
Toni Douglas (Social Worker/Specialist Practitioner)
Toni joined the Be Safe tean in July 2021. She completed her MSc in Social Work at the University of Bristol in 2014; prior to this she worked in an adult LD team. SHe has since worked with "Off The Record" (a youth mental health charity), in the Early Intervention in psychosis team, CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team and under CAMHS within the Bristol Youth Offending Team.
Rachel Marcarian
Rachel is a Preceptorship Forensic Psychologist with 18 years of experience working with problematic and harmful sexual behaviour, in the community, youth justice, and secure settings. Her previous roles have included work with those with mental health difficulties, challenging and violent behaviours, learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and those with histories of trauma and abuse. Rachel has experience of risk assessments and assessments of needs, and interventions tailored to the needs of the individual. Rachel has been involved in Home Office Research and has delivered the findings of this at conferences nationally and internationally. Her doctoral thesis explored criminal and sexual exploitation of children.
Megan Simmonds (Clinical Psychologist)
Megan qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2016 from the University of Leicester. All of Megan’s post-qualification experience has been within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the NHS, including working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, eating disorders, children in care, and harmful sexual behaviour. Megan enjoys working with young people and their parents and carers to make sense of their difficulties, and helps them to find ways to reduce their distress and enhance their safety and wellbeing. Her areas of expertise include working with trauma and attachment. Megan is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is a member of the British Psychological Society.
Andrea Clay (Senior Administrator)
Andrea has an administrative background and has worked with Be Safe since 2013. She has a GNVQ level 2 in Business and Administration and RSA level 2, and has also attended several training courses for important aspects of her role such as telephone call handling and customer care.
