Meet the team
Who we are: The Affiniti+ team in Woolwich
People first. Thoughtfully connected. Affiniti+ brings different kinds of expertise together around one shared purpose.
We believe mental-health and neurodiversity support should feel accessible, relevant and connected to the realities of everyday life. Our work combines clinical experience, psychological thinking and practical development so that the support we create is both rigorous and genuinely useful.
We are deliberately collaborative. Different perspectives help us ask better questions, build more responsive services and keep the person in front of us at the centre of every decision.
Our team
Meet the people behind Affiniti+
Our team brings together clinical psychology, psychotherapy, programme development and digital systems — different lenses on the same goal: making mental-health and neurodiversity support clearer and more accessible.
Dr Anindita Sarkar
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Woolwich, London
AFBPsS | CPsychol | HCPC
- QUALIFICATIONS AND REGISTRATIONHCPC registeredChartered PsychologistAssociate Fellow of the British Psychological SocietyDoctorate in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2010
- LEADERSHIP AND EXPERIENCEFounded Affiniti+ in November 2023Former Head of Clinical Services at Barnet Council, with strategic oversight across schools, primary care, youth offending services and social careMore than 20 years' experience across the NHS, local authority and educational settingsClinical expertise in mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, from infancy to older ageOversight of clinical audit and practice-based research at Affiniti+, so that services are shaped by evidence and outcomes
Zara Tandy
Assistant Psychologist
- QUALIFICATIONSMSc Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology — King's College LondonBSc Psychology — University of Bristol
- CLINICAL WORKChildren, young people and adultsNeurodevelopmental assessmentsTherapy (mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions)Clinical report writingUnder supervision
- PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENTGroupsWorkshopsPodnotesHandbooks
- AFFINITI+ PROGRESSIONIntern → Assistant Psychologist
Rhyen Jivan
Digital Systems Assistant
- EDUCATIONMEng Mechanical Engineering — University College London (final year)
- DIGITAL SYSTEMSWebsite design and developmentElectronic health record and clinical workflow systemsBespoke web components and automation
- AFFINITI+Digital infrastructureLearning Hub and booking systemsSocial media publishing
- APPROACHDesigning from the client's side of the service
Ayse Gundogan
Graduate Psychologist · Trainee Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
- QUALIFICATIONSMaster's in Mental Health Studies — King's College LondonPsychology degree — Université Catholique de Lille
- TRAININGPsychodynamic psychotherapy — Tavistock Clinic
- CLINICAL WORKChildren, young people and adultsTherapy (mental health conditions)Psychodynamic and CBT
- LANGUAGESEnglish, French and Turkish
Jaheem Smith
Graduate Psychology Intern
- EDUCATIONEducation, Psychology and Learning — University of Cambridge
- QUALITY IMPROVEMENTVisibility, database, clinical audit and research
- WIDENING PSYCHOLOGYLearning Hub resourcesContributing to newsletter series
- CLINICAL WORKChildren and young peopleTherapy (mental health and neurodivergent conditions)School observationsUnder supervision
What connects us
Different expertise. Shared standards.
What holds it together is a shared set of standards, not a shared job title. We value evidence, thoughtful collaboration, and systems that work for the people who actually use them.
Clinical rigour
We take evidence, professional standards and careful judgement seriously. Good support should be clear about what it is doing, why it is doing it and where its limits are.
Human connection
Expertise matters, but so does how people experience a service. We listen, collaborate and design around real needs rather than assuming one approach will work for everyone.
Thoughtful innovation
We use new ideas and digital systems when they make something genuinely better: clearer workflows, more accessible information and more time for meaningful clinical work. Our digital systems are designed by someone who has been a client here, so they start from what it is like to use our services.