About
Dr Griffin has practised as a psychiatrist for over 25 years in a number of settings, both NHS and private. She has primarily worked with adults of working age, and has experience in the full range of disorders affecting people in the 18 to 65 age range.
As well as seeing people with common disorders such as anxiety and depression, she is happy to work with people have had psychosis, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders, or people who have been diagnosed with a personality disorder. She works alongside a skilled multidisciplinary team offering holistic diagnosis and treatment, using the bio-psycho-social model of care.
Through her many years working in an acute hospital setting, she has developed an interest in complex medical presentations, including unexplained physical symptoms, and psychological problems secondary to medical problems.
Dr Griffin is also available for medico-legal reports, and has reported for both civil and criminal cases. She is available for complex capacity assessments, and employment matters.
Position at Priory
Dr Griffin has been working at Priory Hospital Bristol since 2017 as a general adult psychiatrist. In 2019, she left the NHS and worked on a female only acute psychiatric ward at Priory Hospital Bristol, dealing with patients suffering from serious mental illness requiring hospital care. Alongside this, she developed her private caseload, seeing people both as an outpatient, and, if needed, in a private inpatient setting.
Since the beginning of 2024, she has been working exclusively as an independent psychiatrist at Priory Hospital Bristol.
Training
Dr Griffin qualified as a doctor in 1994 at St George's Hospital, London and moved to Bristol to complete her psychiatric training in 1997. She was awarded her Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2001 and completed her specialist training between 2003 and 2009.
She specialised in general adult psychiatry, but has also completed specialist training in liaison psychiatry (delivering healthcare to patients in the acute hospital setting), and addiction medicine.
After qualifying as a consultant, she worked for a number of years in liaison psychiatry, where she became skilled in the management of emergency psychiatry, self-harm and psychiatric consequences of physical illnesses. She also worked part time in the local perinatal service before leaving the NHS and moving to Priory permanently in 2019.
Research interests
Dr Griffin has research interests in self-harm, and has published in this area.