Fees:

Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervision of at least 1.5 hours per month is required for all therapists working with children. For trainee therapists the requirement is more. For school staff, Family Support Workers and other adults working with children the amount of supervision hours may be personal preference or as agreed with your employer / registering body. It is important to have a good working relationship with your Clinical Supervisor and therefore researching and meeting a potential clinical supervisor prior to committing to one is advised. Please contact me to discuss your needs and to arrange an initial meeting.

Play Therapy for an Individual Child

Each child is different and will be treated as an individual; each child’s therapy is different to meet their own specific needs. Please contact me to discuss. Please note that I rarely have the capacity to take on private clients.

As an example, most children will need at least 16 sessions in their treatment plan. Children with developmental trauma may need longer term therapy of at least one academic year. The (no-obligation) assessment prior to therapy starting will enable me to advise you.

A treatment plan includes the sessions for the child and meetings and often reports. The cost for any treatment plan includes the session time, meeting time, admin/report time, plus room hire, if applicable.

The meetings consist of: a meeting (in person or by telephone, occasionally by email) with the child’s parent/carer before therapy begins, at a review point and at a final meeting (in person or by telephone, occasionally by email) at the end. It also includes seeking information from the child’s teacher or Sendco and/or other professionals (by email, telephone or face to face) before therapy begins, at a review point and again at the end.

Final or interim reports/letters are chargeable. Meetings at TAF/TAC/CIN/CP etc. are chargeable.

Please note, all meetings may be face-to-face, virtual or by telephone or email, by mutual agreement.

Generally speaking it takes over 2 hours of time to deliver each individual session or a one hour meeting. This covers the travel time, session prep, setting up the toolkit and clearing away after each session, recording, on-going liaison with family/carers and relevant professionals and safeguarding work. It also includes the mandatory supervision time required by the two professional bodies I am a member of (BACP – The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and PTUK – Play Therapy UK).

Extra reports/letters and attendance at multi-agency meetings are subject to additional charges.

Room hire may be payable. A therapeutic space where the child can express themselves freely without being overheard by family members is important for the process to work well. The child’s school can often offer a room suitable for use. Alternatively, other venues may be available.

Please note: attendance at TAFs or professionals’ meetings is subject to availability and charged per hour, plus mileage.

Please contact me with any questions.

For schools / charities / adoption support / local authority referrals. Please contact me for availability and pricing.

Training for Educators (primary, secondary and early years)

Fees will be dependent on your requirements. Please contact me to discuss.

Play work with Parents/Carers

There are 8 play based sessions, for an adult and their child to attend together, each lasting up to one hour. There will be fun, informal activities and some basic attachment and relational theory will be shared during this time. We aim to build reflective functioning skills, thereby building attunement and attachment.

There will be an initial face to face meeting with the adult who will attend (telephone, email and virtual are not appropriate for this intervention). This will prepare the adult for the sessions to come and allow time for an introduction and assessment. There will be a further face to face end meeting with the adult after the last session to follow up and re-score the assessment. The commitment from the adult is for 10 sessions, in total.

The adult-child duo may attend alone or with up to two other adult-child duos. The fees payable for one adult-child duo is £750, plus room hire, if applicable.

Please contact me for more information.

Dyadic work with Parents/Carers/Key Staff/Restoring Relationships

I offer therapeutic dyadic work with parents and carers of children with traumatic life experiences and/or difficult behaviour. Usually this ‘Restoring Relationships’ work would take at least 24 sessions. Firstly, I work with the parents/carers to understand the difficulties their child presents them with, and the emotions this may trigger in them. We will explore those responses and their own patterns of behaviour when triggered before working out better ways to ‘deal with’ the child’s behaviours in future .

Then, we work out how to recognise and then meet the child’s unmet need, understanding that a child’s behaviour is their way of communicating their needs to the adults around them.

Then, I work with the parent/carer and child together to build attachment and attunement, modelling and practicing together techniques to aid their relationship and meet their child’s needs, therein de-escalating the problematic behaviours and bringing more joy and love into their lived experience.

Finally, I ensure that the parent/carer has the tools to continue raising their child with PACE to ensure the long-term success of their relationship.

This work is sometimes undertaken in schools with a child’s significant adult or safe person (Teaching Assistant or mentor), to build the attachment between them and to encourage co-regulation and unconditional acceptance. This, in turn, aids the child to become more regulated and will enable more positive behaviour management.

This is work which uses PACE, and is based on an understanding of attachment theory, developmental trauma, the neurobiology of trauma, attachment and caregiving, intersubjectivity theory and child development. PACE is a way of thinking and being which deepens the emotional connections in our relationships with others. When we are playful we brings enjoyment to the relationship and those within it and we build stronger bonds. When we accept another person despite their flaws we create psychological and relational safety.  When we are curious about the other person in a relationship, wanting to know and understand their views, responses and behaviours we express a desire to truly know the other person more. When we show empathy we communicate that we recognise and validate the other person’s experience. Showing the empathy we feel also shows curiosity and acceptance in our empathic responses.

This block of 24 sessions will be priced at £80 per session / meeting, plus room hire, if applicable.

Please contact me to discuss.

Therapeutic Life Story Work

Firstly, working with the child, through play and talking, we will increase the child’s sense of safety in their current home. Then using this safety, we will begin to gently explore the events in their life which have brought them to the here and now.

We will use play and creative arts therapy to explore past events and the feelings and emotions associated with them. This will allow the child a new acceptance and appreciation of their life and who they are.

Ideally the child’s carer will be involved throughout the work, building the sense of safety and acceptance for the child, and becoming more aware and more attuned to the child’s understanding of his/herself too.

Their life story book will be co-created by them, their carer and me, using facts, anecdotes, photos and pictures to explain their life story and leaving room to add more as their life continues to give them facts, photographs and stories to add. (Edit)

Social workers, please contact me for a quote.

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