Dr Vikki Hunkin

Dr Hunkin is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist with more than a decade’s experience in clinical practice. She has extensive experience in neuropsychological assessment, including the assessment of memory, attention and other cognitive difficulties.

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Educated at Oxford, Bristol and Plymouth Universities, she provides neuroconsult.co.uk online assessment services to clients across the UK.

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A former longstanding NHS psychologist, Dr Hunkin now works in independent practice. Her clinical experience includes assessing adults with a wide range of neurological and cognitive difficulties.

 

Her areas of particular interest include brain injury, strokes and brain haemorrhage, dementia (including Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia) and other neurodegenerative illnesses (including Parkinson’s), epilepsy, post-concussion syndrome and other adult neurological conditions.

 

She is one of a small number of practitioners who has experience of working with people who have had a brain injury throughout their care. This includes in hospital during the acute phase, in the months following, in multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation and with those who are living with the long-term consequences of brain injury in the community.

 

Dr Hunkin is HCPC registered and is one of the few practising psychologists to hold the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN), regarded by the British Psychological Society as the “gold standard.”

 

She is Associate Editor of Europe’s Journal of Psychology, listed on the BPS Specialist Register in Clinical Neuropsychology and has appeared in the media, commenting on psychological issues.

 

You can book a private online cognitive assessment with neuroconsult.co.uk here.