Integrated Mental Health & Specialist Trauma Services

I provide trauma- and attachment-informed psychotherapy for adopted adults, survivors of care, foster carers, birth parents and individuals whose mental health difficulties are connected to early relational experiences and attachment disruption.

My work is offered within the scope of general psychotherapy and counselling provision, and may explore themes including:

• Attachment difficulties
• Developmental trauma
• Early relational trauma
• Identity and belonging
• Experiences of fostering, adoption or care
• Loss, separation and relationship difficulties

This area of work is considered highly sensitive clinical practice. For this reason, I maintain ongoing specialist training in trauma, attachment, safeguarding and relational psychotherapy, alongside regular clinical supervision to support safe and ethical practice.

I work in accordance with professional ethical standards, safe clinical governance, and safeguarding responsibilities under the Children Act 1989 and 2004 frameworks.

My interest and experience in this field began through working as a key worker within semi-independent accommodation and support services for young people, particularly care leavers and vulnerable young people aged 16+.

Following this, I worked as a Specialist Trauma and Attachment Therapist within a dedicated therapeutic service which also operated as an Ofsted-registered Adoption Support Agency.

The service specialised in therapeutic support for adopted children, looked-after children, and carers. This provided extensive experience in attachment- and trauma-focused therapeutic work, which I have continued to develop and specialise in throughout my career.

Work with Children, Young People & Families

I am able to offer adoption-related therapeutic work with children, young people, and families where referrals are made through, or under contract with, appropriately regulated organisations such as:

• Local Authorities (LAs)
• NHS services
• CAMHS
• Registered adoption agencies
• Other Ofsted-registered services

I do not operate as an Adoption Support Agency and I am not independently Ofsted registered.

Under UK legislation, Ofsted registration may apply where an organisation is operating as a defined Adoption Support Agency under the Adoption and Children Act framework. My private practice operates as an independent psychotherapy service rather than an adoption support agency.

Family therapy and parental support for adoptive, kinship and special guardianship families may be eligible for funding through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF).

I can be individually commissioned by Local Authorities and Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs) to provide therapeutic support for families where this has been identified through an assessment of need.

If eligible, I may be able to provide:

• Therapeutic Parenting sessions
• Trauma and Attachment-based Family Therapy, including DDP & Theraplay
• Therapeutic work with adopted and kinship families

Please contact me to discuss referrals, commissioning arrangements, or therapeutic support packages.