This webinar brings together the perspectives of Dr Angie Lewis: a clinician working with young people with BDD, and Lucy de Garis: a parent with lived experience of supporting a child with BDD. Drawing on clinical expertise and personal insight, they share practical guidance on understanding non-engagement, reducing conflict, and finding constructive ways to support young people who are reluctant or feel unable to engage in BDD treatment.
Meet the Speakers
Dr Angie Lewis is a Principal Clinical Psychologist at the National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorders Service for Children and Young People (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust). She has worked at the service since 2013, providing specialist assessment and evidence-based treatment to children and young people with BDD across the country. Angie is a peer-reviewed author and has contributed chapters to books on both OCD and BDD. She is involved in leading multi-disciplinary specialist assessments and delivering weekly, intensive, and home-based interventions. Angie has a particular interest in improving access to treatment. She has been programme lead for CBT training on the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies framework at Exeter university. Angie is the lead for the first and only satellite clinic for the service, which she has overseen since inception in 2022. Based in the southwest of England, Angie leads on the provision for young people across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
Lucy is mum to a teenage daughter with BDD and has been learning about the condition since her daughter first became unwell with it four years ago. Developing an understanding of BDD has been central to Lucy’s role in supporting her daughter along her recovery journey. Lucy has also recently completed a Masters in Psychology and chose to do her dissertation on parents’ perspectives of BDD in young people. For this she interviewed 13 parents about their experiences of supporting children with BDD and wrote a report outlining the key themes identified. Lucy is passionate about raising awareness of BDD and is currently volunteering with the BDD Foundation’s Schools Project.
