About Us
Who we are
Our team is a dynamic and welcoming team of expert forensic and clinical psychologists who work nationwide providing expert witness assessments, training, and consultancy to legal firms and other organisations.
We provide independent forensic psychology expert witness services to legal firms and other organisations (e.g. police forces, the CPS, religious organisations, and sporting organisations). Typically this is often where there are complex issues associated with criminal offences or allegations of the same, or other issues that a court or other disciplinary panel may need to decide upon. In some cases these issues might be extreme risk allegations, or they can be more subtle risk issues, or relate to allegations like spiritual or other abuse in a religious context. Our team members have various specialisms, and having such a team gives a great breath of expertise overall. We ahave vast experience of providing expert witness assessments to aid a range of contexts. Those we assess may be perpetrators or victims of crime. Examples of expert witness services include assessments for life/indeterminate (IPP) sentence parole purposes (defence or prison instructed), as well as for criminal court (defence or police/CPS instructed), within care proceedings (family court and pre-proceedings), Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRT/MHT), immigration/deportation tribunals, Local Authority (LA) commissioned assessments, and on behalf of religious and sporting bodies/authorities as part of safeguarding.
Our team also provides training to individuals and large services such as the NHS and private service providers. The training and consultancy that we provide covers many areas of forensic and clinical psychology, as well as us offering training that is relevant to areas wider than forensic psychology. Ruth has provided training nationally and internationally to hundreds of professionals in various areas including risk assessment and sexual offending. Between the team, our range of expertise allows to us being able to provide a range of bespoke training. See our dedicated site for more details www.tullytraining.com
The practice of all of our psychologists is high quality and evidence based. Importantly we are proud to adhere to the professional codes of conduct and ethics of the British Psychological Society and standards of practice of the Health and Care Professions Council. Our team are all are highly qualified with a wide range of experience and we believe in ethical assessments. We enjoy building positive relationships with those we are working with to aid engagement.
Dr Ruth Tully has a particular interest in prison, court, and other legal services. She is a practicing member of The Academy of Experts, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and has been awarded the Bond Solon/Cardiff University expert witness certificates in criminal, family, and civil law. Ruth was awarded a BPS award for 'notable contribution to the field' in 2013, and has served on an editorial board of a peer reviewed academic journal having herself had many peer-reviewed articles published, as well as having edited several books, and written various book chapters. In 2025 Ruth received a judicial commendation for 'exemplary reporting' in a complex criminal case involving risk and personality assessment, which is indicative of our high standards of practice overall given that she is the clinical lead of the team. Ruth has a special interest in neuropsychology, as well as terrorism 'TACT' offending risk assessment. If you take a look at our ‘meet the team’ pages you will be able to see the expertise of some of our individual team members and CVs are provided to solicitors/professionals upon request.
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Summary
Dr Ruth Tully specialises in the assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offending. She and her associates are trained and experienced in applying specialist psychological assessment tools that explore risk, personality, and other aspects of psychological functioning (e.g. autism, learning disability, neurocognitive functioning). Tully Forensic Psychology deliver a range of services including psycho-legal (medico-legal) independent forensic psychological assessment reports for use in court (criminal, family, court of protection) and parole proceedings. We also provide consultancy and training in forensic areas.
Dr Tully’s team members, who are all expert psychologists, add to the wealth of experience that she has personally accrued. Dr Tully is open to media enquiries and has spoken in the news, magazines, documentaries, and newspapers on various topics within her expertise. We accept expert witness referrals from professionals rather than from members of the public. If you are a member of the public who may need our services, please speak to a professional involved in your case who may be able to refer you. We accept legally aided work as well as other publicly funded cases. We also accept privately funded cases referred only through a solicitor / organisation.