Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is tailored to the needs of the individual child or young person, providing opportunities to explore thoughts and feelings through playing, drawing, talking and thinking together.
I can offer:
- Bespoke assessments
- Brief therapeutic interventions
- Play based intervention for young children with their parent(s) or carer(s)
- Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for adolescent depression
- Longer term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy once weekly for at least 12 months
- Consultation, supervision and training for professionals working with babies, children, young people and their parents and carers
How I work:
I will always meet initially with parents/carers for a consultation to hear about the child or young person’s difficulties and to understand their parents/carers concerns about the child or young person. Then I consider what kind of help and support might be needed and what is possible for the child or young person and their family. I will begin work with a child or young person by offering an assessment, usually between 3-5 sessions. If ongoing therapeutic work is agreed, I will continue to liaise with parents/carers to support the treatment and may recommend individual support for parents/carers. This will be negotiated to meet the needs of the individual child and family.
Special interest:
- Autism and neurodiversity
- Special Educational Needs and Disability
- Emotionally based school avoidance
- Emotionally based challenging behaviours
- Identity worries
- Working with parents and carers, particularly thinking about young children
Consultation and Supervision:
I can offer consultation and supervision to individuals and teams. This might be as a one-off or more regularly. Consultation and supervision from a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist can be helpful for professionals from a range of backgrounds, such as health, care and education, who are working with children and their families in complex contexts. This kind of work offers a space to think about complex case work together, often leaving professionals and teams feeling less anxious and more supported.
