Experience

Experience:

Child and adolescent psychotherapist in private practice 

November 2015 – present

– individual psychotherapy for children & young people aged 0-25, parent-child (dyadic) & family work, consultation to networks, specialist assessments, parent support

– work with parents / carers and families

Clinical Director and child and adolescent psychotherapist at The Bridge Foundation Bristol.  

January 2023 – present

Duties include:

  • Member of the Joint Leadership Team, with shared responsibility for the leadership of The Bridge Foundation
  • Clinical responsibility for the work of the Bridge Psychotherapy Service (BPS)
  • Supervision & line management of the BPS team
  • A small clinical caseload  including individual psychotherapy (aged 0-25), parent-child (dyadic) & family work, consultation to networks, specialist assessments, parent support

Clinical Manager / Senior Child and adolescent psychotherapist at The Bridge Foundation Bristol

October 2017 – January 2023

Clinical manager / senior psychotherapist with responsibilities including:

  • Manager of the BPS team (January 2020-December 2022)
  • Lead for commissioned work service (adoption support, social services, court work, NHS) (October 2017-December 2019)
  • Supervision (of Bridge Foundation therapists & external supervision)
  • Participation in referrals decisions
  • Responsibility for social media
  • Individual psychotherapy (short and long term) with young people aged 0-25
  • Work with parents / carers and families
  • Specialist assessments
  • Consultations to other agencies

Child and adolescent psychotherapist at The Bridge Foundation Bristol

February 2014 – October 2017

  • Individual psychotherapy (short and long term) with young people aged 0-25
  • Work with parents / carers and families
  • Specialist assessments
  • Consultations to other agencies
  • Work with schools (Including – individual therapy for children and young people, consultation to staff, assessments, training and INSET)

Child and adolescent psychotherapist, Abingdon CAMHS

Duties – as above, working with young people aged 0-18

Child and adolescent psychotherapist in training, Melksham CAMHS

September 2010 – July 2014

Duties – as above

 Teacher at St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School (Bristol)

Teacher at The Mulberry Bush School (Oxfordshire)

  • Teacher of children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties in a residential therapeutic community, working within a psychoanalytic framework.  Children’s behaviours included physical and verbal aggression, excessive risk taking, school refusal, causing damage to their environment, severe distrust of others and many other presentations.  Children at the school had often experienced severe trauma, neglect or abuse or multiple placement breakdown.
  • Group work, individual work
  • Developing emotional literacy & social skills

Assistant head of unit at PRUIS (Pupil Referral unit and Integration Service), Oxfordshire

  • Teacher and assistant head of unit; working with adolescents excluded from school
  • Personal, social and health education; social and classroom skills; building self-esteem
  • Group and individual teaching (general curriculum with specialism in literacy)
  • Consultations to schools

Teacher / head of literacy at St Bartholomew’s School (Newbury)

  • Teacher of English and literacy
  • Special needs literacy teaching