Our Highly Specialist Team

Dr Key completed her higher training in psychiatry at St George’s Hospital medical school in London before developing an interest in eating disorders. The internationally renowned St Georges Eating Disorder Service, originally set up by Professor Arthur Crisp, provided a rich academic and clinical environment for her to train in both adult and child & adolescent eating disorders under Professor Hubert Lacey and Professor Bryan Lask. She became Senior Lecturer at the medical school and Consultant Psychiatrist within the service for several years publishing widely on a number of subjects including body image treatment and the impact of anorexia nervosa on fertility and brain function.

In 2005 she left the NHS to transition into private practice and become the lead consultant at the Priory Roehampton eating disorder service and then Medical Director for Eating Disorders to the Priory Group.

Over the last 10 years she has been a very active member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty Of Eating Disorders, helping establish the speciality in terms of training standards, resources and treatment guidelines. Since 2013 Dr Key has focused on developing an independent highly specialist outpatient service, forming the Chelsea and Harley Street Eating Disorder Service.

Dr Rooney is a Consultant Psychiatrist at The Priory Hospital Roehampton. She is trained in the treatment of eating disorders and general psychiatry.

Dr Rooney qualified from University College London and Westminster Medical School, and did her postgraduate training initially at Westminster Hospital and then at St George’s Hospital. She became interested in eating disorders at a very early stage in her career and developed this further by working with Dr Peter Dally and Professor Arthur Crisp.

Dr Rooney became a Consultant Psychiatrist in the NHS in 1995. She moved into the private sector in 2001 when she took up her Consultant post at The Priory Hospital Roehampton. She consults at Wilbraham Place on Mondays and at 127 Harley Street on Wednesdays. She is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and licensed by the General Medical Council.

Penny is a senior psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of eating disorders, and the people she treats usually have co-existing conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders or obsessive compulsive disorder. She has built up over 12,000 hours of supervised clinical practice over 20 years, exclusively seeing people with all types of eating disorder.

Her original training was in integrative psychotherapy at Roehampton Institute. She uses her gift of holding and containing the painful and intimate issues brought by her patients, allowing a safe place for them to be explored.

Penny previously worked as an independent psychotherapist with the Eating Disorder Unit at the Priory Hospital Roehampton. She is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and on the Accredited Register of the Professional Standards Authority.

Carol qualified as a Registered Dietitian in 1977. At St George’s Hospital, London, she initiated her interest in treating people who have a difficult relationship with food within a multidisciplinary setting. Additionally, her post included input to the Eating Disorders Unit run by the late Professor Arthur Crisp.

In 1993, Carol joined the Priory Hospital Roehampton and, together with a dedicated multidisciplinary team, was instrumental in fully developing the service. With regular individual contact, in the consulting room or at the meal table, Carol supports each patient referred to her to work towards achieving nutritional change.

In 2007 Carol completed an MA entitled ‘Working with People with Eating Disorders’ at the Tavistock clinic. Today, she works solely with out-patients as a partner in the Chelsea and Harley St Eating Disorder Service. She is Health & Care Professionals Council Registered.