Dr Row Pagdin joined Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research in June 2025. She qualified as a clinical psychologist from the University of Bath in 2015. Prior to this, she had a career in specialist journals publishing (science, technical and medical). Row came to clinical psychology via a circuitous route, inspired and propelled by her lived experience as a carer for a person with mental health difficulties.
Since qualification and before coming to OXCPTR, Row has worked in community adult mental health services in the Southwest. She has a particular interest in embedding and disseminating psychological thinking and promoting the influence of clinical psychology within and throughout multidisciplinary teams, and the NHS more generally. She has been involved in service development and redesign of the CMHT to this end, as part of the NHS Community Mental Health Transformation. In particular emphasising the importance of training, communication and managing expectations (of staff, service-users and referrers) for effective service delivery.
Her interests included OCD, relational difficulties and epistemic trust, trauma-informed care and what this means, emotional literacy in adults, and working with clients with the cluster of symptoms commonly referred to as “personality disorder” (!).
Row is trained in cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) and mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) as well as CBT. She also uses ACT and CFT extensively in clinical work.
