📅 Date: Thursday 3 July | ⏰ Time: 4 PM
Recovering from a brain injury affects more than just physical and cognitive abilities. It can disrupt how people relate to others, especially those closest to them.
Join NRC Medical Expert and Clinical Psychologist Dr Aonghus Ryan for a free live webinar on Thursday 3 July at 4pm, as he shares insight into how brain injury can affect relationships and what support looks like in practice.
What You’ll Learn:
Whether you’re a legal professional, case manager or clinical colleague working with individuals living with brain injury, this session will provide clear, practical understanding of:
- An accessible overview of human attachment in children and adults
- Common causes of relational difficulty after brain injury
- Why do relationship problems cause such distress, not just in patients?
- How neuropsychological formulation and intervention can help
- What to do when you suspect there is a relational problem to be addressed
About the speaker – Dr Aonghus Ryan
Dr Aonghus Ryan CPsychol BSc. MSc. DClinPsych, PGDip Neuropsych is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience supporting individuals and families after acquired brain injury.
He is an IEDTA accredited Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapist (ISTDP) and has trained in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and has extensive experience applying both approaches with neurological patients and their partners.
He works across medico-legal, NHS and case-managed settings, with a particular focus on complex presentations, neurobehavioural disability and mental capacity. Dr Ryan is Principal Clinical Psychologist at the Oxford Centre for Enablement and regularly teaches on doctoral programmes including the Oxford University Clinical Psychology course.
He completed his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford. His training includes a PgDip in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Glasgow, and he is published in areas such as aphasia, apathy, and emotional challenges after brain injury.