I work with kindness and compassion, and I aim to create a safe, trusting and validating environment to enable change and empower children and young people (including young adults). When I first meet children and young people, and/or their parents or carers, we jointly evaluate together what they may be struggling with and I help to provide clarity, develop goals and devise a treatment approach and plan. For me, it is really important to think about what is the life that the person would ideally like to lead and how to get there. Some of the approaches that I use and am trained in include: CBT, DBT, PE for Adolescents and Trauma-Focussed CBT, ACT and NVR (an approach to help parents of children young people showing child to parent/carer aggression). In addition, I offer Autism assessments with multi-disciplinary colleagues and have significant experience assessing and working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders.