Counsellor, Psychotherapist, EMDR Consultant, Child Centred Play Therapist

I have worked for over 20 years in the NHS, initially with adults, and later with child and adolescent mental health. I continue to work in the NHS as a specialist Child and Adolescent Therapist. I also work as an independent practitioner one/two days per week. I specialise in working with trauma in its many forms, integrating my training and experience in EMDR withing person-centred counselling or play therapy. This enables me to work with all ages.

I aim to provide effective, client led therapy within a safe and supportive environment. I also provide supervision/consultation in EMDR and play therapy to other therspists.

Qualifications

BACP accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
EMDR to Advanced Level with adults, adolescents, and children
MA in Child Centred Play Therapy

Therapies Offered

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)

Short, medium and long term work.
Individual sessions - adults, adolescents, children.

Play Therapy

Play Therapy is and effective way that helps children find ways to modify their behaviours, clarify how they feel about themselves and builds healthy relationships.

In Play Therapy, children enter into a dynamic relationship with the therapist that enables them to express, explore and make sense of their difficult and painful experiences. I also adapt Play Therapy principles for working with adolescents, using creative ways of self expression alongside talking therapy.

Psychological difficulties treated include depression, anxiety, agression, learning difficulties and ADHD.

I specialise in working with abuse, grief, family breakdown, domestic violence and trauma integrating EMDR into the play process. Play Therapists also wotking closely with parents/carers throughout the intervention and can also workin with the parent/child or adolescent relationship.

Filial Therapy

This is an effective, relatively new, intervention for children and families experiencing a varity of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

It involoves training and supervising prents to conduct child-centred play sessions with their children. This not only helps to eliminate presenting problems, but also strengthens the parent-child and family relationships.

Specialisms

Trauma, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) bereavement, abuse (physical, verbal and sexual), low self esteem, performance enhancement, relationship work (parent-child, parent adolescent).

Days and hours of work

Fridays.