Dr. Steven Sulej

Steven is a HCPC- registered clinical psychologist, he has experience of working with a variety of different needs and population groups. He qualified as a clinical psychologist from the University of Lancaster in 2023 and joined CMCAFS first as a trainee then a qualified clinical psychologist in 2022.

Steven’s professional interests are in working with directly young people and with the systems supporting them. He feels passionately about supporting connection and meaningful experiences for both children and adults together. He also has a big passion for supporting families and carers to see their own skills and strengths and find ways to apply this to their caring role. Steven has a specialist interest in supporting those who self-harm which was the topic of his thesis, as well as supporting schools to apply trauma informed approaches.


Steven likes to draw on a range of therapeutic models such as  Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapies Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Cognitive Analytical Therapies and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).

He is additionally trained in DDP (Level 1) and Theraplay ®