The South Asian Associate Collective

Welcome to

The Associate Collective!

Welcome! Dr Lamba has built an Associate Collective of independent practitioners who are highly skilled in their own professional areas and their ethos and values are aligned with those of Blue River Psychology practice. All Associates are of South Asian heritage and identify as female. They have a firm understanding of issues around the intersectionality of race, culture and gender and are passionate about the psychological needs of women and families.

Please have a look at their profiles and get in contact with us to arrange your initial consultation with one of of the practitioners.

Dr Sara Betteridge Counselling Psychologist - Family Consultations

Dr Sara Betteridge is a Counselling Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in Adult Mental health services both in the NHS and private settings. Her initial career started in adult learning disability services in which she gained an appreciation for working with different levels of ability and tailoring her interventions accordingly, it was also the beginning of her experience working systemically often having to liaise and work closely with schools, colleges, care homes and multi-disciplinary teams and organisations.

Upon qualifying she began to specialise in integrating faith-based approaches into psychotherapy and with severe and acute presentations of mental distress such as psychosis, bipolar and personality disorders. This work led her to Open Dialogue; a non-hierarchical systemic model based on the importance of the relationships we live in and understanding mental health symptoms as meaningful communications of distress. After completing a further Master’s degree in Open Dialogue Systemic Psychotherapy she has been working with families in Adult Inpatient mental health wards, community psychosis services, and both inpatient and community Eating Disorder Services.

Dr Sara works with adult families (age 16 and above for all members) when a loved one is experiencing emotional and psychological distress, her approach helps families to ‘listen in a way which encourages others to speak, and to speak in a way which encourages others to listen’. She believes that when we feel validated and understood we can start to make meaning from our experiences, and that this validation and meaning making process can begin to facilitate healing from life’s trauma’s. As we begin to reconnect to ourselves and our power through his healing, we can begin to write a different life story.

During her many years of training and experience Dr Sara has felt that doing this process with those closest to us can be significantly more powerful and healing for all, hence her passion for working with the family!

Dr Selina Tour Clinical Psychologist - Individual Therapy

Dr Selina Tour is a Clinical Psychologist who has experience of working within a range of settings offering both short-term and long-term therapies to individuals and groups.

She has experience of working with children, adults and families.
Selina works with individuals experiencing emotional crises, relationship difficulties, difficult transitions, anxiety, depression, loss, trauma and individuals struggling with their identity. She draws on multiple approaches to offer a personalised approach that best fits around the client’s hopes and goals.

Selina is trained in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is currently training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Group Analysis. Her main therapeutic interests lie in body based approaches to trauma healing and helping individuals to understand the role of groups and collective experiences in their individual identity formation. She works within a culturally sensitive framework and holds clients multiple layers of identity in mind to work with the whole self.

Please note each Associate specialises in different areas and is an independent practitioner and therefore clinically responsible for their own therapeutic practice.