Dr Sylvia Baker

Dr Sylvia Baker is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing with Re:Cognition Health Bristol. She specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of child and adolescent ADHD and autism, with additional expertise in anxiety, depression, tic disorders, and eating disorders.

Dr Baker qualified from University College London and Royal Free Medical School in 2006, and was made a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2012. She later completed, with distinction in research, an MSc in psychiatry and psychological medicine from Cardiff University in 2014. She has undergone further psychological training with the Oxford Cognitive Training Centre in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for children with conditions such as anxiety, depression, anorexia, and bulimia. She also has experience with dialectical behavioural therapy for distress tolerance in adolescents at the same institution. She completed her Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) training in Wales in 2017.

Dr Baker has been a consultant psychiatrist since 2017, with a career that spans CAMH at Tonteg Child & Family Centre, and the inpatient specialist eating disorder unit at Priory Hospital. She has been awarded for her efforts in research and academia, such as second place in the Psychiatrists in Wales & Welsh Psychiatric Society Poster Prize in 2011 for an audit of diagnostic pathways in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in CAMH services in Cardiff.