About me
I work with children, teenagers, adults and parents.
As an NHS trained psychotherapist I have experience of working with a range of mental health and developmental disturbance and difficulties. Through long experience running my own practice I work with clients who are not clinical but can suffer from low mood, behavioural and social difficulties, who are feeling stuck, lost or hindered in their growth, unhappy or dissatisfied in their relationships.
Work with children involves the use of play equipment to help children communicate their states of mind and anxieties and put these into words so that the child can begin to think about themselves.
Work with adolescents and adults follows a more traditional talking therapies approach involving free-association, paying attention to dreams & behaviours, ways of thinking and understanding others and the self that may hinder development and keep things stuck, anxious and unhappy.
Parent Consultation - The purpose of parent consultation is to support the parenting task; thinking with parents about their concerns and their child/young person's presentation, trying to understand what is being communicated via action/words and identify factors that hinder development and develop responses.
Starting Psychotherapy: This is a staged -process involving an initial consultation meeting, if we procced - the next stage would be a few sessions of engagement and exploration followed by a mutual decision whether to procced further. The use of a staged process is so that we can get a clear picture of the your issues and concerns, you will have an experience of what it is like and what it means to be in psychotherapy and whether this will be helpful to you and I will have the opportunity to think about whether psychotherapy would be helpful to you at this point.
Psychotherapy can be offered on a short term or open-ended basis.
NB - Work with Children/Adolescents U-16 will usually involves the offer of Review/Liaison Meetings for Parents at certain points.
Training, qualifications & experience
I undertook a six year training in the NHS and have been working in mental health for over 25 years. I have worked in various settings; including, hospitals, forensics, community mental health, special education, therapeutic communities as well as private practice
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
Work within the area of fostering and adoption
Fees
£60.00 - £90.00
Additional information
Fees will take into account the frequency of sessions and the nature of the work.
