Mr T Hinds Senior Child And Adolescent Psychotherapist M.A.C.P BEd PG Dip

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I am an experienced Senior Psychotherapist working in the NHS. I am qualified to work with Children, Young People and their families. I have a special interest in supporting Foster and Adoption placements, through direct work with the child/young person or offering consultation and support to foster/adoption parents. I also work with individual adult clients up to the age of 25 years old. I have a private practice at the Woodlands Natural Health Centre in Derby.

What areas does it work on?
Child psychotherapists treat individual children and young people with a wide variety of difficulties. These include; Abuse, Behavioural disorders, Communication disorders such as Autism, Sever anxiety, Self Harm, Depression, Phobias, Eating disorders, Developmental problems such as bed wetting, Separation anxiety. Specialist support to Looked After Children.

My general approach is to explore with you to see what your current concerns might be and to allow you to decide if this way of working will be helpful. I offer both short term treatments of 10 appointments and long term intensive work which may be ongoing.

Please read some of the information below and if you would like to think further about some of your concerns then please contact me by phone or email. If you are a parent concerned about your child I would normally meet with both of you initially so that you have chance to discuss your concerns and meet continuing any long term work.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is the method of working with anxieties and patterns of behavior whose origins may be unconscious. This is done through normal face to face appointments which tend to be client lead. This method provides a way of understanding how the present is experienced through an appreciation of how past experiences may bear upon it. Those who may have long standing difficulties and who wish to understand themselves more deeply may benefit from this approach.

Adolescent Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy can be very useful in helping to understand and support the experiences of adolescence and early adulthood. During this developmental phase earlier difficulties and traumas can be unexpectedly stirred up. Providing a framework for understanding these deeper levels of anxiety, can support the processes of individuation and personal growth.

What is child psychotherapy?
Child psychotherapy uses regular times and settings and the availability of the psychotherapist’s mind to establish an emotionally containing relationship in which the child’s own view of the world can be expressed, through words and/or actions.

The work of the therapist is to find a way of carefully making this explicit to the child so that a shared insight into the child’s way of functioning is arrived at.

Over time this understanding can be internalised by the child so that he or she can begin to understand their own feelings and behaviour.

Left untreated children and young people may respond to people and situations in ways they do not understand and cannot control. They may also develop more serious mental illnesses in adulthood.

We often find that children who begin to make some sense of their own emotional life in turn establish better relationships with those they are close to.


What next?
Once you have decided to see if any of these approaches might be helpful, simply telephone or email and make an appointment. At your first appointment you will have chance to meet and discuss your concerns face to face.
In most instances an assessment period of 5 weekly appointments will be suggested. After which, ongoing weekly appointments will be offered.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Member of The Association of Child Psychotherapists.
PG Dip Psychoanalytic Observation UEL 2004
4 year clinical training at Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
4 Year NHS clinical doctural equivalence training
Ongoing regular clinical supervision and CPD

Areas of counselling I deal with

Fees

£45.00 per 50 min session
Initial assessment period of 1-10 sessions

Published Articles

• What is Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy?