This year, in collaboration with Fiona Gregory, we are launching an exciting series of person-centred events related to working with trauma (Scroll down to read more about upcoming events in this conference series) ⬇️
Traditionally, psychology and psychotherapy has been under-represented and under-funded within NHS adult, acute, inpatient psychiatric care. More recently, there has been slow but growing recognition of the importance and benefit of psychological therapists being included in the multi-disciplinary care and recovery of acutely distressed individuals in these unique settings.
Natalie will be sharing her experiences as a Person-Centred Psychotherapist working within acute and crisis services within the NHS. She will be sharing and reflecting on her work, and using her experiences to evidence how psychotherapists can contribute to cultural change, including the adopting of a trauma-informed approach to patient care and a reduction in the use of restrictive practices.
The challenges of being a Person-Centred Psychotherapist within a setting still dominated by the medical model will also be explored. Natalie will reflect with you on how she maintains the integrity of the Person-Centred Approach and how she aims to hold onto her way of being within a system that continues to diagnose and ‘treat’ human pain and suffering.
Natalie hopes that in sharing her work, she invites other Person-Centred therapists to consider careers within NHS acute services.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Counsellors & Psychotherapists working with people who have experienced trauma
Course Content
Presenter
Natalie is a UKCP registered and BACP accredited Person-Centred Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She is also trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).
She is currently employed as a Principal Psychotherapist within the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust, where she is the Clinical Lead for Psychology and Psychotherapy for the five adult acute wards at the Royal Bethlem Hospital . Natalie is passionate about early intervention, trauma-informed care, and reducing the use of restrictive practices within the mental health system. She is also an advocate for the important and unique role that the Person-Centred Approach can offer those in acute psychological distress. Alongside her NHS work, Natalie also works as a psychotherapist for the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, a national centre of specialist expertise in the care of individuals living with dissociation, including those who have experienced ritualistic abuse and mind control. Trained to work with both adults and children and young people, Natalie continues to work with children and adolescents at The Family Treatment Service in Wimbledon, London.
