Our private, self-referring psychotherapy services are delivered by Sea Change Psychotherapy Ltd and are tailored to support children, young people and adults through life’s many stages. As a paid-for service, we offer a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space where each person’s voice is heard, respected, and supported by experienced therapists.
This approach can be effective in working with children, young people and adults. It offers the opportunity to reflect on experiences and feelings through the use of creative media or play. Our Art Psychotherapists have undergone a post-graduate training followed by years of experience in working with children, adults and families, equipping them to offer support for a wide range of challenges and complexities.
Our Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are trained to work with the unconscious part of the mind, enabling them to help where problems are puzzling, deeply entrenched or particularly complex. Work with children is play-based, enabling them to express feelings and thoughts using symbolic play. Psychotherapy sessions with older children and teenagers are unstructured, client-led, a space to reflect and come to a greater understanding of themselves and their relationships.
Alongside psychotherapy for children and young people, we offer support for parents and carers. This is a chance to stand back and reflect on parenting relationships from a new perspective, which involves the idea that children’s behaviour has meaning and can be an attempt to communicate. Sessions are free from criticism or judgement, with the understanding that perfect parenting is not humanly possible.
This is a new Sea Change Psychotherapy Ltd service, offering an intervention for parents around the time of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. The journey from planning a family or the unexpected news of a pregnancy to giving birth and becoming a parent can be exciting. It can also be complex and challenging. We offer psychotherapy and emotional support to individuals, couples and their babies who feel they need some help during this time.
For parents who have struggled to conceive, those who have experienced miscarriage or the loss of a baby, our therapists offer a sensitive and compassionate approach, enabling the impact of these painful experiences to be reflected upon and understood.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is an approach which works on difficulties at an unconscious level, using the therapeutic relationship as a means of exploration and an agent of potential understanding and change. In this way, deeply seated and long term issues, often stemming from childhood, can be helped.
For many adults in need, unable to access psychotherapy through the NHS, this kind of analytic psychotherapy would be beyond their means.
We now have two, soon to be three, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists in Training who are able to offer both weekly and intensive sessions at a reduced fee. Our trainees are registered with the West Midlands Institute for Psychotherapy and receive very regular supervision while learning their craft.
Contact our specialist psychotherapists for more information