Tess Bailey-Sayer B Ed Hons (Cantab) MACP

About us

Sea Change Psychotherapy Ltd is a company formed by Tess Bailey-Sayer in December 2016. We are a group of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists working in Independent Practice in Shrewsbury. We are also a Certified Social Enterprise.

If you are a parent, relative or carer who is worried about your child, or if you are a young person worried about your own mental health, contacting us would be the right first step in finding some expert professional help.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is a useful approach where there are complicated or long term problems, where young children are not able to put their feelings into words, where feelings are becoming out of control and are difficult to understand, and where approaches like counselling have been tried but do not seem to be effective.

We offer a brief telephone conversation if you'd like one, and then meet with you for an initial consultation at the Sea Change Psychotherapy Centre. This would be a chance for you to tell us about the situation, and for us to see whether we might be the right people to help. We sometimes work with children and young people directly, sometimes with parents, and work always begins with an assessment. Appointments usually last fifty minutes. Assessments take between four and six sessions, and treatment may be either short or longer term depending on the nature of the difficulties.

We offer the following services:

• Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and family work for babies, pre-school children and their families
• Individual or family based assessments and treatment for children of school age
• Assessment and individual treatment for adolescents and young adults up to the age of 25
• Consultation and parent work for parents of children of all ages
• Specialist support to foster carers or parents of adopted children
• Consultation and supervision for clinicians working with children and families