About me
Specialist Child & Teen Therapist | ADHD, Anxiety, PDA & Behavioural Challenges
Is your child struggling with ADHD, anxiety, demand avoidance, emotional regulation or challenging behaviour? Perhaps you're seeing frequent meltdowns, overwhelming emotions, difficulties at school, anxiety and avoidance, conflict at home or behaviour that you're finding increasingly difficult to understand.
I specialise in working with children and young people with ADHD, anxiety, PDA profiles and behavioural challenges, including emotional dysregulation, anger, impulsivity, demand avoidance and difficulties managing everyday expectations.
Practical & Creative Therapy
I am a qualified integrative psychotherapist specialising in work with children, young people and families. My approach is child-centred, practical, creative and non-judgemental, drawing on therapeutic approaches including CBT, DBT-informed skills, play therapy and creative therapeutic work.
Rather than focusing only on the behaviour or difficulty we can see, I work with children to understand what may be happening underneath it.
Therapy can help children and young people better understand themselves and their emotions, develop regulation and coping skills, manage anxiety, communicate their needs and build greater confidence and resilience.
Support for Parents & Families
Supporting the child is only one part of the picture.
I also work with parents who are navigating ADHD, anxiety, PDA, emotional dysregulation and behavioural challenges at home. Parent sessions can help you understand what's driving your child's difficulties, reduce conflict and develop practical approaches to communication, boundaries, demands and emotional regulation.
Where appropriate, individual child therapy can be combined with parent support, helping children and parents work towards meaningful and lasting change together.
Understanding Your Family
Alongside my professional training and clinical experience, I have personal experience of supporting a child with ADHD and oppositional behaviours. This has given me an additional understanding of how challenging family life can become when conventional advice simply isn't working.
My aim is never to judge children or parents. It is to understand what's happening, identify what your child needs and help your family find a more manageable way forward.
Online Specialist Support
Sessions are delivered online, allowing children and families to access specialist support from the familiarity of home. Sessions are interactive and adapted to the child's age, interests and individual needs, incorporating conversation, creative activities, therapeutic games and practical skills where appropriate.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MA in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families
- MA in Special and Inclusive Education
- Post Graduate Certificate in Dyslexia
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education
- Member of the BACP
Member organisations
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
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a free phone call to discuss your needs and wishes before booking any initial appointment. The fee per session is £75. The fee for an initial appointment and assessment is £150.
Further information
I offer both online and face-to-face sessions at present. I can work both short and long term.
