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• Face-to-face consultations
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About me

Alice specialises in working with children, young people and their parents with developmental and relational trauma working from an integrative model, based on attachment theory and current neuroscience. She uses the arts and play as a therapeutic medium helping children and young people to symbolically express their feelings and where necessary to create a coherent trauma narrative.
Alice has an MA in Integrative Child Psychotherapy from the Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education (IATE) where she studied among others, with Dan Hughes (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) and �adaoin Bhreathnach (Sensory Attachment Intervention) including a two-year infant observation and paper as part of her training. She has a PGDIP in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts and a PGCert in Child Counselling Using the Arts.
Alice undertook her psychiatric placement at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Mildred Creek Unit for young people with serious somatic and eating disorders using the principles of 'Therapeutic Milieu'.
She has additional training specialising in the many aspects of fostering and adoption support required for both children and their parents/carers including Dyadic Developmental Practice a unique form of attachment-focused therapy based on the principles of PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy), pioneered by Daniel Hughes.. She has additional introductory Theraplay� training with Phyllis Booth as well as Level 1 Theraplay� and Group Theraplay training, HANDLE therapy (Holistic Approach to Neuro-Development and Learning Efficiency) and and holds a certificate in Therapeutic Life Story Work (Family Futures). She has additional professional development with trauma specialists Dr Bessel van Der Kolk, Dr Bruce Perry and the Mindsight Approach with Dr Dan Siegel among many others. Alice is a trained coach and a qualified trainer member of the Global Training Community of NLP (Principles of Brief Therapy and Positive Psychologies). She is also a Therapeutic Attachment Lead having completed training with Louise Michelle Bomb�r.
Alice specialised in supporting parents and carers. She facilitates their understanding of the impact of trauma, loss and disrupted attachments on the children they care for as well as giving vital help and support in dealing with the effects of imported trauma and loss, from these children to their parents.

Areas of interest

Therapeutic Parenting Support;
Child and Adolescent
Trauma
Developmental Trauma