In this week's episode I chat to my good friend Liam Mason. Liam is a clinical psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist; he has a lecturing position at University College London and holds a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellowship, with his work based at the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry. He also continues to provide some talking therapy treatment to people with psychosis and bi-polar disorder.Liam and I really get underneath all this impressive sounding stuff...

Welcome to episode 1 of Beneath the Armour! I'm excited to bring you a conversation with my old friend Amanda Thompson, a speech and language therapist from the UK (this translates to 'speech pathologist' in other parts of the world!)Amanda talks to us about her journey to becoming a clinical team lead for autism within a county wide speech and language therapy service. She talks about her professional journey, beginning with a degree in psychology and after later experiences whilst travellin...