Ms Danae Gingell is a Warranted Clinical Psychologist who graduated from the University of Malta with a Bachelor in Psychology (Honours) in 2003. Following this she worked with children with autism at a local organisation. In 2006 she moved to Reading, U.K. and obtained a Masters in Psychology of Early Development. Back in Malta, she began reading for a Masters in Clinical Psychology which she received in 2012.
Ms Gingell spent 2 years in the UK working with the NHS in a Children and Families service. On her return to Malta in 2009 she started working with adults in the mental health community. After achieving her Masters, she worked with children and families with various disabilities both in intervention and assessment until 2013 after which she returned to work within the mental health community.
After a year away from practice, Ms Gingell returned to work with children and adolescents and their families within the public sector. Her work consists of assisting troubled and hard-to-reach youths with various challenging behaviours. Her role in TAASC is to carry out psychological interventions as well as education-based assessments with children and adults in order to evaluate their strengths and difficulties and help formulate ways to best work with each individual. She is also the Academic Lead. Danae is also an Assistant Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta, within the Department of Psychiatry.