Working with parents
A great deal of our work and training as psychotherapists is in support of the parents of young people who are struggling. Such parents often undergo extraordinary challenges.
Parent work is not an offer of adult psychotherapy, but is the opportunity for psychoanalytical understanding, support and guidance with specialist mental health professionals to help to process and work through the challenges, as well as the wonderful aspects, of being the parent of your child.
It might be that you have recently become a parent and are finding the transition to parenthood hard, perhaps finding bonding with your new baby less easy than you were expecting. Babies and young children can stir up all sorts of feelings that might be hard to admit to, and we could offer a place to think these through with you with sensitivity and without judgement.
It might be that you have concerns about how your child is developing, for example, they might be struggling to form attachments and to develop friendships. It can be hard for a parent to feel that their child is not thriving, and it may be helpful to think with a specialist mental health professional about how this might relate to early experiences in a child's life.
Parent work offers a valuable space tailored to your specific needs and those of your child. Sometimes, this work can happen with a separate clinician to the one who sees your child while they are in treatment with us. In other circumstances, it may be valuable to meet with you and your child together. Parent work can also happen without the young person being in treatment at all.
At Fellows Psychotherapy Practice, our ACP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are able to offer:
Complex assessments, including State of Mind Assessments (to help parents, mental health, social care, and education professionals better understand a child or young person’s specific needs).
Specialist parent work with parents/carers.
Parent-infant or parent-young child psychotherapy.
Linking with professional networks to support meeting a child or young person’s individual developmental needs.
