About Us
Dr Faith Contell is a Consultant Psychiatrist who undertook specialist training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry and provides assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a full range of psychiatric disorders including anxiety, depression, phobias, and bipolar disorder.She attended the University of Cape Town in South Africa where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomical Science and Biological Anthropology before moving on to her undergraduate medical training. Upon graduation from the University of Cape Town Medical School she spent some time working as a general practitioner in South Africa.
In 1998 she moved permanently to the UK in order to pursue specialist training as a psychiatrist. Dr Faith Contell has been an examiner of medical students for Kings College & St Thomas Medical School. She has also developed an interactive computerised study and revision tool for medical students. In addition she has coached a number of trainee psychiatrists all of whom have since gone on to pass their specialist examinations.
Following completion of her specialist training Dr Contell took up a consultant post within the South London and Maudsley NHS Mental Health Trust. Working in an inner London catchment area with a diverse ethnic population and dealing with a broad range of psychiatric presentations.
She then moved to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire NHS Mental Health Trust, where she engaged in collaborative working with the Oxford Complex Behaviour Team and Crisis Service.
Dr Contell now devotes herself to full-time private practice.
Professional qualifications
• BSc
• MBChB
• MRCPsych.
Professional Memberships
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Medical Association
• Independent Doctors Forum
• Medical Women’s Federation