Psychological Systems

About

Our story

Richard Sherry, the founder of Psychological Systems has worked for more than fifteen years treating aspects of psychological trauma. Within his work he has specialized in assessing and treating vulnerabilities in both individual and organizational systems and their interactions. His research focuses on the pervasive effects of stress and the impact this has across every aspect of neurobiological processing including social functioning.

Richard Sherry –CEO and Clinical Director

Clinical and Counselling Psychologist, Leadership and Peak Performance Strategist

About

For the past fifteen years Richard Sherry has worked with individuals, families, groups, departments, and organizations to effect change. His further research into clinical neuro-psychology and neuroscience lead him to understand these same processes of function and dysfunction are scalar, occurring at all levels, from the neural peptides which control brain function up to the scale of entire social systems. This exploration and interest in linking ways to think about these different scales of processes led to the development of the ICDS system (Richard Sherry copyright © 2011) and advancing the real goal of actually healing individuals and the social processes they inter-relate with. Integrated Systems Healing and Richard’s concept of Integrated Healing (Richard Sherry copyright © 2011) is a process of linking the spectrum of illness and health dimensionally.

Clinical and Counselling Psychology

Richard’s passion is working with individuals, groups, or organizations to deliver high levels of performance and creativity. However, the depth of his training and expertise has helped Richard develop some groundbreaking clinical innovations in oftentimes extremely complex cases. Richard is considered by his colleagues within the psychiatric and psychological world as one of the safest set of hands within the mental health field. The care and expertise he brings to every person he works with is felt, and this quality is a hallmark for all that come into contact with him and know his work. He frequently has clients flying in from around the globe seeking treatment.

Individuals, Couples and Families

The company Richard founded, Psychological Systems Ltd., is based on the concept of the importance of interconnected health and support. Richard has specialized in being able to understand the needs and treatment demands of the social-emotional environments that is integral to being a fully-functioning human being. This is one aspect that is often underemphasized and is another way Richard is able to achieve excellent results. The meaning and quality of connected relationships is another aspect Richard has been working on clinically, to improve not just symptomatic improvement, but to significantly improve quality of life and depth of personal development.

Innovator in Psychometric testing and Diagnostic Tools

The need to have reliable, expert benchmarking, and assessment has been one of the most critical issues within psychological health. Psychological Systems Ltd., has been working for nearly 10 years to tackle this problem. With possibly one of the best-integrated psychological and developmental psychometric test that is available in the world the STAT test (Richard Sherry copyright © 2011) provides a valid and highly reliable psychometric personality test. We at Psychological Systems Ltd., are working to innovate further improvements to integrating and revolutionizing the standards of psychometric assessment to improve on health, performance, and well-being.

Military and Police Psychology

In addition to some of these previous details, Richard has worked in posts as the psychologist with the fire service, and the National Service for Police Psychiatry, where he served as the Co-ordinator for the National Service. He has been the Lead treating Clinical Psychologist for Military inpatient treatment for seven years. His interest in extreme environments and high performance stems from some of the experiences that have made him one of the foremost treating clinical psychologists working in London. These clinical treatment demands have informed his wider work both in humanitarian medicine, disaster medicine and psychology as well as with his interest in organizations and extreme environments. He is currently finishing further specialty training with a Diploma in Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (DPMSA), in which he specialsed in developing new frameworks for improving disaster ethics. Richard is now working to complete his Fellowship in Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) and the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine (DCCM). He is very interested in the cross learning and development that can be gained in the most difficult environments and how this learning can positively help our development in all aspects of psychology to improve quality and meaning within our lives.

Business and Organizational Psychologist and Strategist

Richard has a particular interest in high performance and excellence in leadership, especially in challenging or extreme environments. The work Psychological Systems Ltd. is engaged with is intended to help create an adventure of significant value to help clients increase their confidence in taking a more active role and when necessary assuming responsibility within their own life and within their relationships, and the wider world. This leadership development can help them innovate towards meaningful personal evolution and help create positive sustainable change. The goal is to create one of the most valuable experiences the person or organization has had, lowering vulnerabilities, increasing resilience, and enhancing all aspects of intellectual output.

Elite Performance and Optimization

Richard’s multifaceted training and expertise in experiential learning has helped him innovate better ways to move from any level (including high levels) of dysfunction (for both individuals and organizations) to work to achieve satisfying outcomes. Richard has been working with international experts within the field of superhuman performance to bring the expertise from the psychological dimension to best harness one’s vision and help create the matching capacities to ensure its successful delivery.

Multiple areas of advanced training:

Richard is a Clinical Psychologist and a Counselling Psychologist (HCPC registered). He is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (BPC and UKCP registered). Among other degrees and areas of specialty, he holds an MA in Organizational Consultancy from the Tavistock; A certificate in Traumatology from the European Society for Traumatic Studies; he is a founding member of the Society for NeuroPsychoanalysis, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow for the Conflict and Disaster section of the Society of Apothecaries. Further areas of specialist training include; EMDR Consultant, and newer body psychotherapy as a registered practitioner for Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), and he is working toward completing full membership in CBT with the BABCP and further specialty training in clinical neuropsychology, a Fellowship with the Academy of Wilderness Medicine, and a Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine.

Humanitarian Aid and Intervention

Richard is very interesting in developing solutions across the spectrum for individuals, for couples and families, for organizations, as well as for societies. This work includes the interconnected study and first-hand work within each of these environments. Richard’s development of new interventions for Integrated Systemic Healing (Richard Sherry copyright © 2011) has been one path to integrate much of the best thinking within the field of clinical psychology, disaster medicine, social systems theory, social neuro science and psychology, as well as many other areas to help develop the healthiest and most compassionate sustainable systems human beings can experience.

Mentoring and Trainee Supervision

At Psychological Systems Ltd., we share a passion for limitless learning. Psychological development, mentoring and supervision form a crucial part of this portion of the experiential learning. There are many ways in which our mentoring and supervisory expertise can be applied in your unique environment. Contact us if you or your organization wishes to learn more about the broad range of services and skills we have available.

Establishing a series of collaborative investigations is an attempt to work meaningfully to heal these breakdowns and to determine how to reinstate a joyful and meaningful development of human creativity and performance.

About The Company

At Psychological Systems Ltd. we share a passion for integrating individual, team, and organizational performance. This is designed to take you from whatever level of difficulty experienced, and to move toward high performance and meaningful engagement.

We aim to facilitate this level of positive connected experiences for everyone who is part of that network or system. We have at our disposal state of the art psychological assessment tools, psychological interventions, and educational and developmental frameworks which work to profoundly heal and develop the capacity, creativity, and skills-base of our clients.

Integration and communication are key to significantly improving the quality of experience and outcome whether it be for an individual, family, a department, an organization, or larger structure.

Our Philosophy

At Psychological Systems Ltd., we feel that human beings and the social systems that we inhabit should be meaningful, alive, and profoundly positive experiences of creativity and support.

The social structures and the experiences that make up our lives should facilitate the formation of our unique vision of development, and work synergistically together to improve our lives, leave the world better for our being here, and create and bring value to our social and productive endeavors—whether they be our work, our relationships, friendships, and social or international presence.

At Psychological Systems Ltd. there is a focus on strengthening and healing the vulnerabilities and helping to positively facilitate very high levels of performance and intellectual capacities.

ICDS—How we work

The four principle ways we begin to look at shifting toward higher levels of capacity are through: Integration, Compassion, Developmentally stepped goals, and having everything Sustainably organized. This is known as the ICDS approach and makes up founder Richard Sherry’s vision of Integrative Systems Healing (copyright © 2011), which is at the heart of much of the company’s ethical and leadership ethos.

Much of the focus is on assessing the areas of difficulty or vulnerability, and helping improve on the resiliency and vision of how the person, team, or organization wants to evolve. The company specializes in understanding the complex issues and needs incumbent within vulnerability. These aspects can be assessed, strengthened, and bespoke strategies unique to the needs and requirements of the individual/team/organization are developed to create a personally meaningful vision.

Care and quality matter

It is vital that things are critically thought through, designed to work well, and improve through time toward the direction of limitless performance. The work Psychological Systems Ltd. is engaged with is intended to help create an adventure of significant value to help whoever is involved increase their confidence in taking an active role and assuming responsibility within their own life and within their relationships, and the wider world.

This leadership development can help them innovate towards meaningful personal evolution and help create positive sustainable change. The goal is to create one of the most valuable experiences the person or organization has had, one which can lower vulnerabilities, increase resilience, and enhance all aspects of intellectual output.

Areas of Expertise & Partnerships

Clinical Psychology

This specialty area includes the spectrum of assessing and treating of moderate to severe psychological distress, where interventions include cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), psychotherapy—including psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychological trauma interventions. Trauma and Complex Cases—some of these more specialty interventions include:

EMDR
AIT
Advanced Integrative Therapy

Innovating and embracing change: developing improvements in vulnerability and superhuman performance. Clinical Psychology principles and expertise underpins all of the collaborative partnerships along with expertise in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and organizational dynamics.

Psychological Systems Ltd. also brings further specialist training and expertise into each of the following areas, which creates creative collaboration and innovative evolutions, both theoretical and applied within each of these partnerships.

BPC British Psychotherapy Council
www.psychoanalytic-council.org
CBT
www.babcp.com
AIT
www.aitherapy.org
EMDR
www.emdrassociation.org.uk

Educational

Educational Assessment: linking together the developmental spectrum of how people best individually learn, what motivates and interests them, as well as how best to scaffold these learning environments and experiences to maximize their educational opportunities.

Psychological Systems Ltd. innovates at world class levels to understand what the vulnerabilities of the person, group, or system are, and works to manage and develop beyond these problems to evolve a profoundly effective and meaningful engagement with one's self. This experience is anchored in understanding how powerful negative or aversive learning is, and what can be done to completely shift this to a positive, profound, and meaningful endeavor, which can improve the person's life and the relationships they have.

4 Corners 3

Pronounced as "Four Corners Cubed," this department of Psychological Systems Ltd., has been developed to look at improving holistic assessment for psychological and educational needs as well as how to adapt current modes of educational processes to de-traumatize learning and look at how to make it a wonderful experience rather than a frightening, shaming, or distressing one. This part of the company has been examining individual learning needs and how different people require a diverse range of educational environments and strategies. 4Corners³—like one would map the quadrants of the universe—looks at integrating the best of learning and education theory, and custom tailoring these concepts to enhance individual learning.

Some examples include: exploring what experiences could be blocking learning, establishing the different kinds of engagement depending upon need—for instance experiential learning for different age levels and groups. These are brief examples of how the lab-and-field-crucible may be used to dramatically improve on the systemic interface between learning, and the needs and vision of the individual. This approach allows one to shift this dynamic interface from vulnerabilities and failings to meaningful engagement and limitless development.

Bridge Education
www.triusadvisors.com

Psy4Law
www.psychology4law.co.uk

Extreme Environments

There are many ways to describe this area such as hostile and remote medicine, and it covers many aspects from expeditions, military, disaster, and extreme sports.

Part of the knowledge base and the expertise in assessment is to look at essential factors that would influence individual aptitude for challenging environments as well as helping to put together high achieving and cooperative teams or groups for these challenging immersive contexts.

Global Sphere Consultancy

This collaborative joint venture looks at how, within the context of complex stresses, highly demanding environments, and considerable risks, we can optimally shift systems from high levels of vulnerability to extreme high performance and robust durability.

This think tank approach matches the demands of extreme environments, the daunting psychological impact these can have on individuals and teams, and develops preventative strategies that can shift possible vulnerabilities into creativity, super high performance, and limitless development.

SOS Harley Street
www.sosharleystreet.com

Organizational/HR

Organizational/HR: working to improve a positive capacity in leadership and supportive team dynamics essential to organizational success. Managing negative personnel problems can be a costly and disruptive HR problem. This can dramatically alter departmental culture in a negative way.

This assessment process and collaborative development of a healthier vision moves the organization towards an analysis of the problem and possible solutions, including state of the art thinking in team selection, management, and organizational redevelopment.

Also, the collaborative partnerships with educational and specialist in managing stressful or challenging environments has very much enriched the knowledge base and wisdom that connects well with understanding the complex needs of organizational processes. The social, practical, and high performance outputs of whatever size work environment are situated within the nuanced social-emotional environment both within the organization as well as the interface with the demands from outside. These issues of assessing and understanding what are the vulnerabilities and how best to strengthen supportive mechanisms to very much improve on every

Additionally, partnerships with educational and specialists in managing stressful or challenging environments has enriched the knowledge base and wisdom that interfaces with the understanding of the complex needs of organizational processes. The social, practical, and high performance outputs of work environments are situated within the nuanced social-emotional environment both within the organization as well as the interface with the demands from outside. These issues of assessing and understanding potential vulnerabilities and how best to strengthen supportive mechanisms are critically important.

Organizational Innovation

This enterprise brings psychological research on the social construction of meaning together with developments in social and political philosophy. Its purpose is to explore the psychological politics of organisational, and indeed social, change. Research has been conducted on how individuals in organisations create meaning and how best to intervene in order to reveal such processes to their participants. In this way, the partnership works to increase awareness of what are, all too often invisible psychological processes in organisations, thereby assisting the effective and conscious guidance of collective meaning-construction.

Social Synergy draws on advances in psychological intervention and democratic experimentation in civil society to examine:

the interaction of organisational structure and individual cognition
patterns of information exchange and communication in organisations
how human social neuropsychology interacts with social and political processes
forms of leadership conducive to organisational effectiveness in the changing environment

Collaborative Interface with Research Republic
www.researchrepublic.com

Architectural/ Client Interface

Within the high stakes process of insuring client satisfaction, a successful collaborative working relationship is essential in bespoke architectural projects. The requirements to reflect the unique personalities and needs of the owners are most personal when developing the signature vision of the architect in creating living or working space for that person or organization.

In helping the clients get the most out of their working relationship with their architects it is important to do a fast and highly effective assessment of what are the factors that are likely to make a difference to how this interaction unfolds. How can we best equip one’s architect to best understand his or her client and how can we help the client maximize their effective engagement within this highly creative process?

Foundations

The answer to how we can profoundly develop the creative capacities is through the innovations within the psychological interface. For example, through the development of an ingenious psychological tool to ensure best-fit communication link between client and architect we are able to anticipate where problems are likely to occur and mitigate unneeded disruption within this process before it occurs.

In addition to this, architectural design is a co-facilitating process of creation and like similar artistic processes a deep meaningful and smooth engagement can empower both sides to get the best out of the other to maximize this creative series of encounters. This assessment and engagement process provides a new standard for high performance creative collaboration that will likely lead to evolutions in design vision for both architect and client.

In over a 10-year collaboration between thinking about the interface between the spaces one inhabits and the psychological meaning, impact, and creative process a new state of the art innovation has emerged out of the work between psychologist and architect. This advanced process of Architectural Client Interface—can best be described as situated in the innovating meaningful outcome. Then through an optional process of co-collaboration using coaching, the creative process can unfold smoothly.

Undercover Architecture:
http://www.undercoverarchitecture.com

Aesthetic Medicine

Understanding the interface of one's inner sense of self and the interaction with the outside world is subtle and complex. Psychological Systems Ltd., has innovated ways to improve psychological assessment related to developing one's health and well-being and as well as methods to improve aesthetic appearance. This specialist collaboration has designed assessment tools to prevent miscommunication and negative outcomes within medical interventions.

This joint work utilizes clinical psychology expertise to create for both clinicians and patients an effective way to minimize problems, maximize total human capacity, and positive sense of self. Understanding the potential that lies within each of us to look our best and dovetailing this with ways to support feeling in our most beautiful or handsome necessitates brining the technical brilliance of aesthetic medicine with that of the power of psychological self-understanding.

Core Change

How one looks and one's inner sense of self worth is integrally connected together. This collaborative enterprise is working to innovate the most effective ways to combine improving on how one feels about one's self and developing the best aesthetic methods to optimize how one looks.

The infinite layers of the psychological self combined with the outside facing physical self provide a wonderfully deep canvas to develop core capacities for meaningful transformation of the individual. This combined expertise is working to evolve significantly more nuanced psychological interventions to dramatically move forward the cutting edge of aesthetic art, science, and aspects of deep well-being for both clinician and patient and for minimizing problems as well as finding the best outcome to feel wonderful from the core of one's self outward.

Clinic B—B
www.drbarbarakubicka.co.uk/

Enhancement Medicine

Enhancement Medicine is a multi-disciplinary specialty that aims to integrate sustainable interventions in order to overcome the current limitations of the human body, psyche, and group or social systems through natural and technological means. What has been frequently missing traditionally within this field that very much needs to be present is the human element. Individuals and the social-emotional and psychological processes change to help guide and inform this engagement process. Our group understands this area to include an integrated spectrum of issues of vulnerability to also include the other end of the spectrum of extremely high performance capacities. We are interested in all aspects where each of these areas can inform and improve the overall approach to improving a meaningful quality of human life moving from vulnerability toward higher levels of performance. This field of Enhancement Medicine is often applied to the use of technological means to select or alter human characteristics and capacities, whether or not the alteration results in characteristics and capacities that lie beyond the existing human range is only a subset of having a truly integrated approach of development, healing, and individual and social innovation for improving the quality of human life. We are working to truly understand the integration of the coming together of these fields and how these holistically interact together to reach the highest level of sustainable and meaningful human development.

Our group is looking at ways we can take the Integrated Systems Healing (Copyright© Sherry 2011) and the ICDS method to develop a truly integrated and sustainable economic, moral, and developmental space to compassionately look at how potentially the best innovations can be responsibly used to significantly improve the quality of life for the individual as well as for the greater society as a whole.

Organizing and Diagnosing Systems Services

Companies

Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Department Organization
Assessments—(See collaborative Partnership and Expertise for more information)

Face to face sessions can also be arranged (or these can be conducted via Skype)

Individual
Working with Individuals focusing on Psychological Issues

Individuals
Couples
Families

Executive Coaching
This is usually working with Leaders to improve their performance in all aspects of their life

Department/Organization
This offers an approach to work with teams and departments to bring about improved performance and functioning

Societal/International Consultancy
This offers an approach to work with societal and international organizations to bring about improved performance and functioning

Learning Modules
For each of these 5 areas there is feedback and learning points for each area

Times adjustable in 15-minute increments for over 50 minutes in 15-minute increments.

Psychometrics

Psychometrics is a discipline derived from clinical psychology. These techniques to measure aspects of human functioning include examining personality traits, levels and types of clinical behaviour or symptoms, attitudes, skills, abilities and knowledge required to really understand each different individual.

The primary focus of psychometrics is in constructing and innovating new measurement instruments: tests, questionnaires, personality assessments and interviews. It is the hope of the creator and innovator of the STAT psychometric test to profoundly create an integrated system that is capable of building sustainable and compassionate emotional development for individuals as well as the larger social structures each is engaged within.

Psychometric assessment (or Psychometrics) is used for a number of following reasons:

Individual assessments for identifying scores or ranges of functioning. Usually, this is carried out to gain insight into better understanding what the range of issues might include or the severity or performance of scores.
Improvement and development—Using the data derived from the scores helps inform the assessment and advice to create a treatment plan or a framework to develop and increase performance goals and measurable milestones.
Management and career development programs (e.g. career preference, job selection processes in Human Relations (HR), recommendations for health related procedures, educational recommendations)—having a flexible approach to the unique needs encountered combined with clearer defined benchmarking to know strengths and areas of weaknesses will allow both the individual and the organisation to have reliable evidence-based data to look at improving the person environment fit as well as ensuring the team dynamics can create genuine support for a happier and more effective team and organization.
Private coaching and mentoring—The development of the tests do have the support of a specialist team that for additional costs can be used to help look at developing programmes to maximize the assessment to match these with superb insights to facilitate high performance development and leadership within individuals and the social structures he or she is responsible for transforming.

Psychometric tests are a clear way to evidence an individual’s ability within a context of how their behaviour, personality, work in conjunction with their experience, and their neurobiology in unique ways. For example, choosing the right individual from a large pool of applicants to get the correct person to connect with the team and the organizational ethos is extremely complicated and nuanced. This psychometric approach is working to drastically help clarify this multi-layered process. Psychological Systems Ltd. is a company that is innovating ways the individual scores can be linked to team and organisational scores, performance, and looking at how to improve toward higher spectrum of functioning. The integration of thinking and research that has been innovated within the company and is encapsulated within this test has come together to create a paradigm shift in holistic elite human performance.

Psychometrics
Psychometric Testing Site

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Psychometrics is an instrument psychologists use to examine an individual’s mental health and provides a way to increase the clarity of interventions (what will work and why), as well this particular test assessment batters (STAT) provides state of art innovations for assessment, integration of critical points of testing, improves strategies for feedback, and outstanding computer psycho-educational support to improve areas that require strengthening with self-contained resources to do so for clear methods to identify when more help or support is actually needed. In simple words, this is a psychological equivalent of a physical check-up or an examination. Like an MRI scans for personality structure, this test provides answers and recommendations for health strengthening. The computerized platform takes the assessment scores and links these to provide one of the best methods of holistic integration and strategies to heal the entire person as well as ways to look at understanding how to facilitate a similar level of development of well-being within the group or larger organization.

Resources

Private Clients

Individuals
Couples
Families

Government
Non-Profit/NGO

Psychometric Testing (4)
What is Psychometric Testing?

How does it relate to ICDS and Systemic and Integrated Healing?

Companies
Private Clients
Government
Non-Profit/NGO

Types

Results
Customization
Learning Modules

Effective Feedback Driven Learning

Focusing on understanding about Vulnerabilities and Transforming Systems to Super human performance.
Fees (2)

Our Fee Structure

At Psychological Systems our fees reflect the standard of care and expertise that goes into everything we put the meticulous thought into to help with your needs and making sure you are able to reach the outstanding performance in every aspect of your life including work, love, and play. The specialist knowledge and the personal care that goes into our work with you are intended to be positively life changing. That is the place that we start from and that is what we work together with you to ensure we achieve.

Same prices for all of the categories specifically for the psychological aspect of this other areas of expertise and testing needs to be separately discussed as this company works in a consortium with other multi-disciplinary experts.

Costs List

Skype/Telephone Sessions†

Individual (50 mins)	£175
Couples/Families (50 mins)	£225
Executive Coaching (50 mins)	£300
Department/Organization (50 mins)	£375
Societal/International Consultancy(50 mins)	£650

†--As some of these elements are complex psychological interventions some sessions may need slightly more time, which the client/patient understands will be billed for their time used with the treating psychologist. Times adjustable in 15 minute increments.

Same prices for all of the categories for working with clinical psychologist.

Psychometric Testing Costs List

Test and Report*	£75
Learning Modules**	£125

* The window for taking and completing the test is one week. If it is not completed by this time the link will need to be paid for again. Reports should be emailed to your email account and you should have a copy of this within your records. This is your copy and Psychological Systems Ltd. is not responsible for relocating it etc. ** The Learning modules are opened for three weeks and if you or our company/organization wishes to use these online resources further they must be repurchased on incremental three-week basis. †--As some of these elements are complex psychological interventions some sessions may need slightly more time, which the client/patient understands will be billed for their time used with the treating psychologist. Times adjustable in 15 minute increments.