Dr Amber Elliott is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and bestselling author based in Staffordshire.

Amber is a specialist in psychological support for Adopted and Children Looked After, developmental trauma and is a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) consultant and trainer (in training). She is also trained in NVR, Theraplay and Systemic Family Therapy and a passionate advocate for Empathic Behaviour Management.

In 2011, Amber set up The Child Psychology Service CIC, of which she is the sole Director. TCPS is a Social Enterprise which provides systemically empathic, psychological support for traumatised children and the adults around them.

Amber’s first book, ‘Why Can’t My Child Behave? Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families’ was published in 2013, with the follow up ‘Superparenting!: Boost Your Therapeutic Parenting Through Ten Transformative Steps’ published in 2021.

Amber has over twenty years’ experience in the NHS and Local Authorities. She is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist, on the Register of Approved Psychology Practice Supervisors and she is regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council. She is also a slightly frazzled mum to two young children.