Dr Sanya Krljes

Dr Sanya Krljes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience conducting complex psychological assessments and providing medicolegal reports in criminal and civil proceedings. Dr Krljes holds two doctorates: one in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology from Imperial College London and the other in Clinical Psychology from University College London. She also has a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. With over 20years of experience, she specialises in conducting neuropsychological, personality and mental health assessmentsand providing medicolegal reports in criminal and civil proceedings. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and authored book chapterson the subject of cognitiveneuroscience and psychological assessments in the medicolegal arena.

Dr Krljes has provided medicolegal reports to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), numerous solicitor firms, and regulatory bodies such as the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). She has extensive experience giving evidence at crown courts in many high-profile homicide and sexual offence trials.

Dr Krljes practices from various consulting rooms throughout the U.K. and assesses clients at prisons, care homes, hospitals and solicitors’ offices.

Dr Krljes specialises in the following:

CRIMINAL LAW
• Neuropsychology assessments (cognitive deficits, intellectual functioning, learning disability, brain injury, dementia, epilepsy and brain tumours)
• Personality assessments (personality disorders and psychopathy)
• Malingering
• Mental health assessments (post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, stress, complex needs and dual diagnosis)
• Risk assessment (arson, sexual and violent offending), including highly specialised tools such as PCL-R, HCR-20, RSVP
• Sexual offending assessments
• Suggestibility and compliance in relation to police interviews
• Mental capacity assessments

CIVIL LAW
• Acquired brain injury
• Epilepsy
• Memory problems
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Anxiety/depression
• Hypoxic brain injury

EMPLOYMENT LAW
• Work-related stress
• Occupational injury
• Employment stress related to workplace discrimination and mental health problems
• Psychological injury in employment matters
• Fitness for work assessments
• Assessment of capability and unfair dismissal

British Psychological Society: Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Health Professionals Council: Registered Practitioner Psychologist