I am an experienced, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ accredited counsellor and counselling supervisor specialising in therapeutic work with children and young people. I have worked extensively over the last 17 years for children’s charities and schools, using a range of therapeutic approaches. I may incorporate play and creative therapy techniques into my practice, and adapt how I work to the needs of each person.

I am able to offer strategies that can help to bring about relief from the distress of panic attacks, anxiety, low moods, stress and associated symptoms. Additionally, I would hope to enable the child or person I work with to develop insight and clarity around difficult experiences and feelings, that will help them cope better, gain resilience and feel better in themselves. This can additionally have a positive impact on someone’s concentration, and ability to learn.

I have significant experience of working supportively with parents, to offer advice and help that could improve both the relationship with their child/children as well as managing challenging behaviours better. Additionally, it could help a parent understand their child’s distress and know how to fully support them. I am also able to offer advocacy for a child or young person, or parent with the school or mental health services (NHS or private).

Costs: £60 per session, first telephone consultation is free.

In addition to concerns listed below, I can also help with friendship difficulties, impact of divorce/family separation, struggles relating to high functioning autism, school refusing, bullying (whether victim or perpetrator), confusion around sexuality, negative experiences on social media, difficult transition to secondary school.

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I am an experienced, qualified clinical supervisor and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ accredited integrative counsellor, specialising in work with children and young people. For the last 18 years, I have worked full-time as an employee for three charities, including Place2Be as a project manager, and provided clinical supervision to experienced and trainee psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, counsellors and therapeutic social workers from a range of theoretical orientations. I have worked as a therapist in 14 schools (primary and secondary) and my integrative theoretical background includes psychodynamic, person centred, transactional analysis, CBT, systemic and Gestalt.¶

As a supervisor, I believe I offer warmth, empathy, support, and creative thinking in supervision sessions. I am also flexible and nondirective in my supervision approach, while remaining accepting of different theoretical models and each supervisee’s unique and individual style of delivering therapy. Further, I am able to provide therapeutic advice, ideas, insight, as well as positive and constructive feedback on the client work being discussed. My intention would be that the supervisee leaves a supervision session feeling a little clearer and better about their work, and goes on to make sense of their sessions and to achieve therapeutic progress with their client.

I have also supervised and worked therapeutically with adult clients and have worked significantly with parents as part of my therapeutic work with children and young people. I have been involved in a great deal of multiagency and multi-professional work too throughout my career.

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