Dr Fiona Challacombe

Fiona is a clinical psychologist and researcher in the field of perinatal mental health, with a specialism in perinatal anxiety disorders.  She is an academic in Women’s Mental Health at King’s College London and has developed and leads a specialist NHS clinical service for parents with anxiety disorders from pregnancy to the end of the third postnatal year.  Fiona conducted the first treatment trial of therapy for perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), examining the impact on mothers, parenting and the mother-infant relationship.  She is patron of the service user led charity Maternal OCD which raises awareness of the disorder amongst women and healthcare professionals. Fiona is currently researching how best to deliver therapy for antenatal anxiety disorders, and how to support parental mental health in the context of high-risk pregnancies and complex outcomes.  She is author of Break Free from Maternal Anxiety