About me
I am a psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist registered with the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. I also hold a prior qualification in counselling psychotherapy with children and adults, and I have Group Practitioner status with the Institute of Group Analysis.
I work from two therapy rooms, one in north Staffordshire and another in Warrington.
I have over a decade's experience working therapeutically with children and young people aged 0-25. I can also offer a therapeutic space to parents, families, foster carers and residential care teams. I am a trained supervisor with a special interest in supervising work with children and families.
I have experience in providing therapeutic support to residential children's homes through direct work with the children, and also staff-group supervision and reflective practice.
I have extensive experience of working in the NHS and NHS commissioned services, including high-risk mental health residential settings, and parent-infant/under-fives settings. My special interests are working with psychosis, postnatal difficulties, care experienced and care leaving children and young people, autism and learning difficulties as well as complex trauma.
Please see the ACP website for an overview of what psychoanalytic child therapy entails: https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/about-us/what-child-and-adolescent-psychotherapy
Training, qualifications & experience
I originally qualified as an integrative counsellor with a focus on psychodynamic counselling, before pursuing further training in psychoanalysis. I have a Master's in working psychoanalytically with children and families, a diploma in group analysis (therapeutic groupwork), and an NHS doctoral level qualification in psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapy. I am also a supervisor.
I am a member of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. I have previously held membership with the BACP.
Member organisations
The ACP is the registering body for NHS trained Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists. ACP members undergo a minimum 6 year training; two years at Masters level then 4 years full-time clinical in the NHS qualifying in a Doctorate Level course. Full members are able to work with neonates, mothers & babies, parents & toddlers, primary school age children & adolescents. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have experience providing parent-infant therapy with parents and babies/young children who are struggling perhaps due to parental mental health struggles, post-natal depression, struggling to bond with their baby, having trouble settling into a new family dynamic/feeding and sleeping issues.
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
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