Dr Newton is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist & Psychotherapist and an Expert Witness. He has over three years’ experience as a medico-legal expert.

Dr Newton has extensive experience with a wide range of client groups including adults presenting with trauma, anxiety, mood disorders, personality difficulties, and culturally complex issues. His compassionate, structured, and psychologically informed approach to assessment, ensures that each report is clinically grounded and tailored to the legal question at hand.

He is instructed on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants and will accept clinical negligence and personal injury cases. Dr Newton is happy to opine on causation, condition and prognosis, breach of duty and liability.

Dr Newton has extensive experience in cases associated with:

• Sleep disorders
• ADHD
• Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Personality disorder
• Anxiety disorders:
  – General anxiety disorder (GAD)
  – Panic disorder
  – Social anxiety (Social phobia)
  – Health anxiety (Hypochondriasis)
• Depression & mood disorders
• Loss/grief
• Adjustment disorder
• Emotional & cognitive impact of long COVID
• Self-harm
• Substance abuse
• Psychological effect of childhood trauma & abuse
• Occupational stress & burnout
• Workplace psychological injury & stress claims
• Road traffic accident (RTA)
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
• Chronic pain & psychosomatic conditions
• Chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Amputations
• Fibromyalgia
• Women’s health:
  – Traumatic birth experience
  – Maternity care
  – Perinatal period
  – Gynaecology

Dr Newton availability is 2-3 weeks and has a report turnaround time of 4 – 6 weeks.