The subject that studies the one reading it.

I trained as a clinical psychologist and chose the classroom because I wanted to reach people before crisis, not only after. Teaching senior-school Psychology turned out to be exactly that: a chance to give five hundred teenagers the vocabulary and the evidence base to understand their own minds — and to gently correct the ocean of pop-psychology nonsense they arrive carrying.

I teach the subject as the science it is: research methods, ethics, the difference between a study and a headline. But Psychology is unlike any other subject on the timetable — sooner or later a student sees themselves in the material, and I've learned to hold that moment with care. Sixty-plus of my students have gone on to psychology degrees; several now practise.

If your school wants a Psychology teacher who delivers rigorous board results, models scientific thinking, and is genuinely equipped for the wellbeing conversations this subject invites — with clinical training and, if useful, counselling capacity — my references and results are ready to review.