Celia Sadie is a British/American psychologist and anti-transgender activist. Sadie is a member of Integrated Psychology Clinic (IPC) and is affiliated with hate group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) and Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG).
Background
Celia Kathryn Sadie was born in September 1979. After graduating from St. Paul’s Girls’ School in 1997, Sadie attended University of Cambridge, earning master’s degrees in 2000 and in 2001. While at Cambridge, Sadie was an assistant psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre in 2001. Sadie earned a third master’s degree from University of Essex/Tavistock and Portman NHS trust in 2003. Sadie earned a doctorate from UCL in 2005.
From 2005 to 2014, Sadie was a clinical psychologist at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. From 2014 to 2021, Sadie was a clinical psychologist at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). Sadie was consultant clinical psychologist and clinical lead for Secure Stairs, a program at Cookham Wood Youth Offenders Institution (YOI).
2022 BPS letter
In 2022, Sadie was a signatory on a letter published by the British Psychological Society (BPS) critical of the BPS response to new NHS England regional model for gender identity services for children and young people
- Dr Laura McGrath, Lecturer in Psychosocial Mental Health
- Dr Anna Hutchinson, Clinical Psychologist
- Dr Sallie Baxendale, Consultant Neuropsychologist
- Dr Libby Nugent, Clinical Psychologist and group work practitioner of group analysis
- Dr Kirsty Entwhistle, Clinical Psychologist
- Amanda Perl, Existential Psychotherapist, former Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Counselling
- Dr Jenny Paton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Dr Celia Sadie, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Dr Lauren Quigley, Clinical Psychologist
- Dr Russel Ayling, Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
- Dimitri Spiliotis, Counselling Psychologist
- Anastassis Spiliadis, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist, MSc Psychology
- Dr Jenny McGillion, Clinical Psychologist
- Dr John Higgon, Clinical Neuropsychologist
2023 FDA petition
Sadie was a signatory on a 2023 petition prepared by Nancy Stade to the US Food and Drug Administration seeking to ban off-label use of puberty blockers in gender diverse children. A follow-up peitition in 2024 was also signed by Sadie.
Selected writing by Sadie
Sadie, Celia Kathryn (2016). [poster] W28 Developing Services for Adolescent Perpetrators of Sexual Offences in Custody and Beyond: a UK Perspective. via International Association for Child and Adolscent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) https://www.iacapap.org/_Resources/Persistent/66cc6b6e66ee5b26e1c7c300351a39722259999b/IACAPAP-Special-Bulletin45-dr12.pdf
References
Staff report (September 16, 2019). Featured job: Senior Clinical and Clinical Psychologists. British Psychological Society https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/featured-job-senior-clinical-and-clinical-psychologists
Resources
Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com)
- Dr Celia Sadie
- psychologytoday.com/gb/counselling/celia-sadie-london/1223963
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Clinical Partners (clinical-partners.co.uk)
- Celia Sadie
- clinical-partners.co.uk/clinicians/dr-celia-sadie [archive]
Oasis Restore (oasisrestore.org)
- Meet the staff: Dr Celia Sadie, Director of Care & Wellbeing
- oasisrestore.org/about-us/meet-the-staff [archive]
ResearchGate (researchgate.net)
- Celia Sadie
- researchgate.net/profile/Celia-Sadie-2