Jane Yates

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St Helier Jersey, JE2 4WS
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About me

Child & Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counsellor - Arts
PGDip, Adv Dip, MBACP

A unique and specialised approach to working with children and adolescents using the arts to acknowledge, experience and process feelings, alongside a professional therapist in confidence.

Seeking help can stir up strong feelings for parents.
I absolutely understand how very difficult it is for parents to watch their child struggle with difficult feelings, especially when they might also be unsure of how to help them. This is very much in my mind when I receive a referral, I see how seeking help for your child can be a very generous act for a parent, to allow your child to find their own voice and understanding of their emotional life in therapy.

Training, qualifications & experience

2020 - Present I am working with Project 5High Five for carers.

Project5 is a not-for-profit organisation, that provides a unique service to NHS staff and healthcare workers. We deliver access to structured and highly skilled support that is designed to enable success at work, through activating the strengths of people to achieve balance and connectedness to their purpose at work.

I am a volunteer for Project 15, I support adults therapeutically who are suffering the strain of working in the NHS during the Covid pandemic. I reveive supervision in line with this specialised adult work.

2011 - 2015 - Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Studies (Level 7)

1: Clinical Skills and Fundamental Principles in Integrative Child Psychotherapy
2: Psychotherapeutic Concepts for the Understanding of Babyhood and Childhood Experience
3: Infant Observation (Parent / Infant Interaction - Neurobiology, Observation and Research)
4: Child Mental Health and Psychiatric Issues in Child Psychotherapy
5: Advanced Clinical Skills Image, Metaphor and the Inner World in Integrative Child Psychotherapy

The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London

26th February 2016 - OXPIP Practitioner Conference 2016, Oxford

'Things Fall Apart', discussed the delicate processes involved in engaging vulnerable mothers in therapy with their infants, but also the wider politics of what is happening to our frontline mental health and childcare services.

14th October 2015 WIPC Conference “Assessing a parent’s capacity to change in the timescales of their child” St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

September 2015 Art Performance for Branchage Arts Festival Jersey. I explored the sense of isolation which comes from island life alongside the sense of community living on an island enables. I used the use of metaphor, sound, weaving and performance to explore the themes in the piece.

July & November 2015 - Postgraduate Research Seminar for JICAS. The Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies is an independent, non-profit institution that aims to promote and facilitate research for an international community of scholars and students. I attend these research presentations and have contributed my own Infant Observation research to the group.

Sept 2010 - July 2011 - Postgraduate Certificate in the Therapeutic Arts / Advanced Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts

This training enables students to tap into their own creativity in order to reach a deeper level of connection with themselves and others; to appreciate the potential of the human imagination; to develop knowledge and understanding of the nature of the inner world, of dreams and the many different forms and uses of human imagery. This training also focuses on the supervised practise of facilitation skills and on the three-way communication between therapist, client and art image.

Sept 2011 - Sept 2012 - Parent Child Art Group Creator & Facilitator

2010 - Certificate in Counselling Skills - Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London

July 09 - “Enabling Children to Speak About Feelings Through Emotional Literacy Games &

Exercises” - Training Day at IATE (Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education )

Diploma in Fine Art - Merit - UAL Central St Martins, London

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).

Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).

Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.

Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.

All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.

Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Use of the arts

Play

Music

Story telling

Sand tray

Dreams

Photos & videos

Fees

£90.00 per session

Health Insurance/EAP

  • Axa Health
  • BUPA

Additional information

My Approach

The first step is a Parent Consultation to hear both parents speak about their son or daughter in terms of his or her development and major transitions, and to learn more about the needs of the family.

My therapeutic work centres around finding ways to help the child communicate problematic (yet most likely unconscious) thoughts and feelings. Once we have a clear indication of what these are, we can work towards a resolution. I am aiming for better relationships at home, and very often, great improvements in school. My work assists in allowing the child and family to reach their full potential. For the most part, children (and for that matter adults) don’t recognise the unconscious processes which cause our struggles. Adults can attend talking therapy to help understand their feelings and delve deeper into themselves; children and adolescents who may lack the language to describe complex emotions may need a more creative approach. This is what 'arts centered' theraputic work with the child aims to achieve.

Arts centered theraputic work involves using age-relevant creative means to aid expression. For example, I will encourage use of the art materials at certain points in the therapy and be continually observing how the child is using them, what s/he creates, how s/he approaches the materials, how s/he approaches the therapeutic relationship (me), how s/he characterises the puppets in my room or the story s/he may create in the sand tray, all to attempt a deeper understanding of the child's experience. Once I have more of a picture of the child's internal world, I am more able to understand the child’s behaviour.  I then aim to facilitate the child in making sense of their experience, which in turn can alleviate difficult emotions.

The process starts by booking in for an initial Parent Consultation. This is a 90 minute adult session in which we discuss the child. This session is paid upon booking, and the cost is £120. I request payment via Bacs payment.

Following this session I do a 6 week assessment with the child, and the cost of this is £540. I will be able to get a sense of what the child is struggling with, and an idea of whether the work should be short term (another six sessions) or more longer term. This can be paid over the course of the assessment period, I invoice on a fortnightly basis.

When I work

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Further information

Cancellation Policy

The use of a regular time and the same setting is essential to contain the child's anxieties when working therapeutically. It is the availability of the therapist’s mind which establishes an emotionally containing relationship in which the child’s own view of the world can be expressed, through words, images, play, stories, dreams 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. Once we have agreed to begin the work I am completely committed to your child and will reserve my time to support the sense of containment essential for this work. Therefor, a session that is missed must be charged for unless I can offer another within the week of the missed session. I understand that sometimes life gets in the way of this structure and I will accept a cancellation with at least 24 hours notice of the session.

Why Therapy?
Psychotherapeutic Counselling with young people works with a wide variety of difficulties. These include family breakdown, abuse, behavioral disorders, communication disorders such as Autism, bed wetting, refusal to go to school, eating difficulties, developmental problems, psychosomatic disorders and depression.

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

13a Cattle Street, Top Floor, St Helier Jersey, JE2 4WS

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Children
Young people
Families
Groups
Organisations

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