What is a Child Psychotherapist?
Child Psychotherapists undergo a long and rigorous training and provide a psychoanalytical mode of treatment. This way of working is based on close observation and an understanding of both conscious and unconscious communication. They have studied extensively child development and in particular the emotional and personality development during infancy. Whilst child psychotherapists undertake work with individual children they also engage in highly specialised work with parents and infants as well as families, parents and carers. The long training helps us to understand and begin to give words to what an infant’s experience of the world may be and how they are beginning to understand their relationships with others. I am a member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and as such am bound by their rules of conduct and ethical practice. I have worked within the Health Service for over twenty years within children’s mental health services as well as in the independent sector.
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