If you’ve observed that, for some time now, your child behaviour, emotional expressions and self-esteem have changed (they’re anxious or withdrawing, having difficulties in school, present as tearful or often angry, for example) you can contact me at my private practice in Lincoln regarding Child Psychotherapy and Counselling in Lincoln to best support their emotional and mental health in the long run.

To start with, I meet with the child’s parent/parents/caregivers with Parental Responsibility in an in-person one-hour Parents/Carers First Consultation Session and then I see the child for six face-to-face therapy sessions (50 minutes per session) before I share my findings and recommendations with the child (in session five or six, in age-appropriate ways) and with the parents/caregiver (in an one-hour Findings Parents/Carers Session.) After that a Child Psychotherapy and Counselling Intervention usually begins.

During the therapy intervention I meet with parents/carers every two to three months (more frequently with more complex concerns) where we reflect on child development, family history, attachment history and reflective thinking around needs behind behaviours and verbal and non-verbal communication.

In my Child Psychotherapy and Counselling practice I use a wide range of Creative Interventions (play, art, sandtray, movement, games, etc.) combined with developmentally adapted psychotherapy and counselling modalities/theories.

​I can help with the following matters:

• difficulties managing emotions

• children dealing with chronic medical conditions and hospitalisations

• Donor Conceived Families Children’s Therapy

• Adoption (please read the Contact section on this website)

• anxiety, OCD, intrusive thoughts

• severe childhood depression

• recent bereavement

• experiencing bullying

• blended families

• parental separation and/or divorce

• low self-esteem/confidence

• experiences of racism, colourism/shadism, racial trauma

• mixed heritage, multiculturalism and identity

• transracial adoption and/or fostering

• experiences of neglect and/or abuse (sexual, emotional and physical)

• traffic road accidents and Children’s Therapy

• medically unexplained symptoms (e.g. wetting, soiling, aches)

• a history of multiple losses

• an international or national move

• relational trauma and/or difficulties (attachment)

• making sense of diagnoses (child or someone in the family)

• neurodiversity and developmental needs

• childhood abuse/trauma and post-traumatic stress

• parent-infant relationship difficulties

• Queer/LGBTQ+ needs

• identity needs around difference

• Third Culture Kids (TCKs)