About me
Currently available for work with children and young people and young adults (up to 25yrs).
UKCP Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with Children and Young People, with 16 years of previous experience working in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service).
AST Registered Sandplay Therapist - I am pleased to offer sandplay therapy; a therapeutic modality offering a symbolic language to safely explore life experiences and feelings, without the need for words.
My work is also informed by Systemic Family Practice.
I offer face to face counselling with children and young people, and young adults.
I use a creative arts approach e.g. drawing, story, elements of enactment, and in particular sandplay.
If you would send a brief couple of sentences giving your name and number, the age of your child and the nature of the concern, I will arrange a brief 20 minute telephone conversation for which there is no charge.
Following this we would arrange an initial in-person consultation to discuss your concerns in more detail; parents/carers only in the first instance. With older adolescents and young adults; one to one.
NB. For my fees please see below.
It is important often to meet parents several times before meeting the child or adolescent, to gain an understanding of the family background, and detailed relevant historic factors as well as the context within which the current concerns have arisen.
If we agree therapeutic work would be appropriate for your child, we would then arrange a further time to meet together with the child/young person. I would anticipate a significant proportion of this session being just one-to-one with the child/young person.
Then if we are all in agreement, we will arrange a block of sessions. There will be some consent forms and a form about what we are agreeing to, to be signed together.
Training, qualifications & experience
AST (Association for Sandplay Therapy) STR Registered Sandplay Therapist
Extensive previous experience in sandplay practice with children and young people.
IAPT (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies) Diploma in Systemic Family Practice at University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
Previous experience within the Family Therapy Team within CAMHS utilising a systemic approach, seeing how the child's difficulties arise from within a context of relationships and not in isolation for example; family, school, neighbourhood, culture, gender, age...
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling with Children and Young People at Northern Guild for Psychotherapy.
BA Hons Creative Arts, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fee for initial in-person consultation is £65 and usually lasts about an hour.
Fee for counselling sessions are also £65 per session and are usually 50 minutes in duration.
When I work
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Further information
I have worked with children from age 6yrs, young people from early to older adolescents, and into early adulthood up to 25yrs, from diverse backgrounds, including adopted children and Looked After children.
I have worked with a wide range of presenting issues; low mood, self-esteem, anxiety including around separation, loss and bereavement, historic trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), behavioural issues, anger issues, bullying.
It is important to stress that there does need to be a level of stability in the child's, or young person's, circumstances in order for therapeutic work to be appropriate and effective at this time.
