About us
Lotus Therapy is an established practice providing professional, compassionate support to children, young people, adults and families across Nottinghamshire.
Led by psychotherapists Jane Gould and Susannah Dirckze-Taylor, our approach is warm, relational and tailored to the individual. We are both fully insured and members of professional membership bodies with enhanced DBS clearance.
We understand that seeking therapy can feel like a big step, and we aim to provide a safe, welcoming space where people can feel heard, understood and supported without judgement.
Between us, we offer therapy across a range of ages and needs. Susannah specialises in work with children and young people, while Jane works across the lifespan, from children and adolescents through to adults and older adults.
We share particular experience in working with adopted and looked after children and young people, adoptive parents and kinship carers and families affected by developmental trauma, attachment difficulties and early life experiences. We also undertake therapeutic work commissioned by Local Authorities and funded through the Adoption Support Fund.
Our work is grounded in the belief that meaningful change develops through safe, trusting relationships. Rather than taking a 'one size fits all' approach, we take time to understand each person's experiences, relationships and individual needs, working collaboratively and at a pace that feels right for them.
Lotus Therapy now offers appointments from our Nottingham practice, with Jane also offering appointments from a private therapy space in the Mansfield area.
Whether you are seeking support for yourself, your child or your family, or you are a professional looking to make a referral, you are very welcome to contact us about how we may be able to help.
You can read more about us on our website www.lotustherapynrc.co.uk
Please contact us if you have any queries or require further information.
Services
Psychotherapy & Counselling. Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Clinical Supervision
Training, qualifications & experience
Jane Gould has a Diploma in Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling, is a qualified Clinical Supervisor and a DDP Practitioner in training.
Susannah Dirckze-Taylor has a degree in Dance and Movement Psychotherapy.
Member organisations *
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Other areas of counselling we deal with
Specialist adoption support therapies offered via Local Authority commissioning through the Adoption Support Fund
Trauma Therapy
Holistic therapy services
Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Psychology
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £100.00
Additional information
Fees range upwards of £50 per 45 minute session - children and young people
£60 per individual psychotherapy/counselling 50 minute sessions
£75 per hour couples and family work
Fees for adoption and kinship care work available on request and reflect the nature of the work
Further information
Jane Gould has undertaken training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy – DDP/Attachment Focused Family Therapy.
I am currently a DDP Practitioner in training having undertaken DDP Level One and two and passed the midway practicum. I have worked extensively with children and their families. If you are interested in this approach please call me to talk through the benefits, how I work and how I may be able to help you. DDP is a really helpful therapy for any family experiencing difficulties in supporting their child/children for any reason. I have used the approach successfully with children with ADHD and anxiety problems. Children can experience difficulties throughout their early and teenage years which may exhibit as behaviour difficulties, withdrawing and isolation, family conflict and school problems. My DDP/attachment focused approach aims to help parents and children communicate more successfully and for parents to understand their child’s behaviour and find ways to bring the family unit closer together.
Work with adopted/foster children & young people
Dan Hughes, a Clinical Psychologist, created Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) as a treatment for families with adopted or fostered children who had experienced neglect and abuse in their birth families and suffered from significant developmental trauma. DDP is based on and brings together attachment theory, what we understand about developmental trauma, the neurobiology of trauma, attachment and caregiving, intersubjectivity theory and child development.
Children who have been in the care system may have had many changes in the people who look after them and find it hard to trust adults. They may believe that parents aren’t safe and can’t always be turned to for comfort and help. They may develop insecure attachments and try to stop their new parents from becoming emotionally close to them.The therapy helps the children learn to trust. It is family-based and involves the child with his or her caregivers. I have worked with Local Authorities to provide therapy for adopted children and their families.
Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy
Central within DDP is PACE, a way of thinking which deepens the emotional connections in our relationship with others.
Playfulness brings enjoyment to the relationship. Acceptance creates psychological safety. When we curiously explore within a relationship we express a desire to know the other more deeply. Empathy communicates our curiosity and acceptance, as we recognize and respond to the other’s emotional experience.
Further Reading: ddpnetwork.org, www.adoptionsupportfund.co.uk
