Dr Nicola Curtis
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
A consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with 13 years in community CAMHS, where she led on ADHD. She offers psychiatric and neurodevelopmental assessment for children and young adults.
MBChB, FRCPsych, CCT
GMC number 6101737
Dr Curtis is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, and has been a consultant since 2012. She offers specialist psychiatric and neurodevelopmental assessments for children, families and young adults.
For 13 years she was a consultant in the community child and adolescent mental health team in Peterborough, where she was clinical lead for ADHD. She now works in the NHS as a consultant in the mental health service for students of the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.
She takes pride in the therapeutic relationships she builds with patients and their families. Alongside psychiatry she is a cognitive analytic therapist and an EMDR therapist, and she has a particular interest in wellbeing and lifestyle medicine as part of mental health care.
Special interests
- ADHD in children, young people and adults
- Neurodevelopmental assessment
- Child, adolescent and family psychiatry
- Complex trauma
- Cognitive analytic therapy and EMDR
- Student and young adult mental health
Background
- Clinical training
- Read medicine at the University of Manchester, qualifying in 2004, and trained in psychiatry on the Leicester and Cambridge rotations. Higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry in Cambridge and Peterborough, completed in 2012. A Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2008 and a Fellow since 2023.
- NHS consultant practice
- Consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust from 2012 to 2025, including clinical lead for ADHD, and consultant to the health in-reach team at a secure children’s home from 2017 to 2019. Since October 2025, consultant psychiatrist in the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University Mental Health Service.
- Therapy training
- Cognitive analytic therapist, accredited through Sheffield Hallam University in 2015, and EMDR therapist, with further EMDR training for work with children. Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law, Keele University, 2011.
- Teaching and mental health law
- Clinical and educational supervisor for doctors in training, an examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a mentor to new consultants. An Approved Clinician and Section 12 approved doctor, undertaking Mental Health Act assessments across age groups.
Registered with the General Medical Council and a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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