Our Clinicians

Mr Conradie’s expertise includes occupational psychology, clinical psychology and neuropsychology, and medico-legal assessments, as well as individual client/patient assessments, treatment and rehabilitation. Mr Conradie also offers consultations to organisations and individuals (executive psychological coaching) on various aspects of psychological issues and advises stakeholders on risk issues. Mr Conradie has been registered as an expert witness to the courts since 2001 and regularly prepares reports in the field of clinical and neuropsychology.

Mr Conradie’s psychological treatment modalities include CBT and Compassion Focused Therapy. 

Mr Conradie trained as a Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and registered in the UK in 1988. He worked in a military hospital for two years and worked with soldiers with mental health problems and casualties of war.

Previous to the establishment of Psicon, Mr Conradie joined the NHS in 1993 and worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Neuropsychologist. He was head of the East Kent Clinical Neuropsychology service (a NHS Service) for ten years where he was involved in the delivery of neuropsychological services and leading a community based multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team.

Mr Conradie has lectured on various academic programmes including the Salomon's Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme as well as at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Mr Conradie qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and on the British Psychological Societies Specialist Register of Neuropsychologists. 

Dr Benjamin works with clients who experience a variety of problems that affect their mental health including anxiety, depression and trauma and attachment related difficulties. She has a wide range of interests in working with individuals and families whose experiences may not easily fit into a particular diagnostic category including those experiencing chronic illness or women experiencing post-natal depression.

Dr Benjamin uses a number of different approaches working with the client(s) to develop an approach that meets their specific needs. Clients who have an autistic spectrum disorder for example may require the adaptation of an approach to suit them.  Dr Benjamin works using the framework of available evidence published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for specific disorders. This has included CBT, Mindfulness based approaches and Systemic approaches.

Dr Benjamin works with adults, children and young people and their families who present with a variety of difficulties and problems affecting their mental health and emotional well-being and has also carried out consultation to a number of different organisations in the public sector.

Dr Benjamin has worked for more than 20 years in a variety of NHS services in Adult Mental Health and in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She has worked within the secondary care and specialist CAMHS services and has also worked with children and adults with moderate to severe learning disabilities.

Dr Benjamin has held a 4 Consultant posts in the NHS including Head of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2004-2009). She has held part time posts with Canterbury Christ Church College University as a Clinical and Academic Tutor (1994-1999 and 2010-2012).

Dr Benjamin has offered consultation to a number of public sector organisations including schools, paediatric community nursing team, CAPE project team ( a service provided for families with a member with severe and enduring mental health problems).

Dr Benjamin qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1989 via the in-service NHS training route which led to the Diploma in Clinical Psychology awarded by the British Psychological Society. She studied and completed her doctoral qualification in 1999.
She has taken additional training in Neuropsychology (Dip Clin. Neuropsych.) and have undertaken short courses in systemic and psychodynamic approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness and in organisational consultancy.

Dr Zöettl works with a range of conditions including, depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, drug rehabilitation, addictions, trauma, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anger management, obesity, stress, workplace stress, schizophrenia.

Dr Max Zeöttl obtained his medical qualification in Freiburg, one of Germany’s most renowned medical faculties.

He completed his training as a psychiatrist in Hamburg and Klingenmünster and his psychotherapist training at the Institute of Clinical Behavioural Therapy and the Heidelberg Psychodynamic Curriculum.

In Klingenmünster Dr Zöettl established a pioneering treatment centre for opiate detoxification introducing the use of acupuncture, physiotherapy, aromatherapy and psychosocial interventions.

Dr Zöettl worked in a small mental health unit of a general hospital as well as in a large psychiatric hospital including a forensic wing. There he integrated psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches and studied the forensic implications of Adult ADHD. 

In 2006 he accepted a post as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS and became the first Early Intervention in Psychosis Consultant in Kent. In 2008 he became the Clinical Lead for Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Services in East Kent. In 2010 he was chosen as one of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Leads for the South East of England.

Since 2012 Dr Zöettl has been concentrating exclusively on his private practice. This has given him time to further develop his special interests in Anxiety and Depression, Addiction, Adult ADHD, Obesity and Workplace Stress and Occupational Mental Health.

Medical State Exam (Germany)

Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist (Germany)