Adult Psychiatrist
Dr Alexandra (Ally) Getz is a general adult consultant psychiatrist. She works in a busy NHS community mental health team for three days a week where she assesses and treats patients with high risk and complex presentations. She also has her own private practice (Aljem Ltd) where she manages patients with a variety of conditions including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, addictions, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorders, PTSD and complex PTSD. She is also trained to assess and treat Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
For the last 12 years Ally has developed a busy medicolegal practice, partnering with St. Andrew’s Healthcare in the Community Partnerships arm of the service. She is very experienced in providing expert evidence in relation to historical childhood sexual abuse, abuse of power, data breaches, police brutality and misfeasance, workplace bullying and quality of mental health care.
Ally has a wealth of experience across different client groups and services. She has been a consultant psychiatrist in a secure service for women where she specialized in gender-specific treatment for conditions such as serious mental illness in women, personality disorders, eating disorders, trauma conditions and psychological difficulties associated with transgender processes. In addition, she has also worked as clinical lead in a male secure and locked service.
Not only is Ally an experienced psychiatrist, she is also a trained therapist. She has a post-graduate diploma in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and is a trained dialectical behavioural therapist. She brings her appreciation of both psychiatric medicine and therapy to her clients, adopting a biopsychosocial approach to treatment. She is familiar with most schools of psychological treatment and is at home prescribing simple to complex regimens of psychotropic treatment when indicated.
She is fascinated by the relationship between trauma and its role in the development of psychological and physical morbidity and this passion has informed all aspects of her clinical work.
In her spare time Dr Getz enjoys yoga, reading and wild swimming all year round. She has two young children who also keep her busy.