Child & adolescent psychotherapists have extensive experience working with:
Depression (approximately 30 sessions of child psychotherapy plus parent work is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK)
Anxiety
Behaviour and conduct disorders
Neurodiversity
Learning difficulties
Eating disorders
Self harm
Trauma
Attachment difficulties
Developmental difficulties
Parental mental ill-health (parent-child/infant work)
Looked after children (LAC) and adopted children.
*There is also a growing evidence-base for psychoanalytic work with children and young people (Midgley and Kennedy, 2011; Palmer, Nascimento and Fonagy, 2013; Abbass et al., 2013), and short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a NICE - recommended treatment for children with moderate or severe depression (NICE, 2015).
