Young People/Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling

If you’ve noticed that the changes in your relationship with your adolescent child worry you, or that they are experiencing anxiety, low mood, overwhelm, struggles in their relationships, increased insecurities and doubts, and/or they are unusually angry, withdrawn and staying away from their usual favourite activities and hobbies, you can contact me at my private practice in Lincoln regarding Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling to best support their emotional and mental health in the long run.

To start with, I meet with the teenager’s parent/parents/caregivers with Parental Responsibility in a one-hour Parents/Carers First Consultation Session and then I see the young person for six therapy sessions (50 minutes per session) before I share my findings and recommendations with the client (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 and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling Intervention usually begins.

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

In my Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling practice I mainly use developmentally adapted psychotherapy and counselling modalities/theories with some Creative Interventions (art, sandtray, movement, games, etc.)

​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

• transitioning into adulthood (age 17+)

• 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)