Ian Britton

Forensic Psychologist

Ian Britton is a Forensic Psychologist who has worked for thirty years with men and women presenting a high risk of serious harm to the community.  As practitioner and academic, Ian has practiced internationally throughout the criminal justice system, in a career that has included advising the police and the courts, leading a British university postgraduate forensic psychology programme, and heading treatment teams in New Zealand’s high risk Special Treatment Units. 

Ian spends his time walking a delicate path between unflinching research-driven assessments of risk, and the compassionate individual treatment of people suffering the impact of complex trauma and serious mental health problems. He has advised on high profile cases in the UK and NZ, involving multiple murderers, serial child-rapists, terrorists, fraudsters and gangsters.