Associate Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Dr Taylor is an Associate Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Leicester Psychology Clinic. She is a Registered Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, (Association of Child Psychotherapists, ACP, which is regulated by the Professional Standards Authority, PSA).
Dr Taylor is qualified and experienced in working with children, adolescents and young adults (0-25 years old), parents and providing supervision and consultation to professionals. She provides assessment and therapeutic intervention for a range of common psychological issues including low mood and depression, anxiety, school refusal and attachment concerns. She is skilled in working with complex presentations including developmental trauma (including looked after and adopted children, children and families who are refugees), concerns around self-harm and suicidal thoughts, risky and unsafe behaviour, chronic and acute behavioural and emotional difficulties.
Prior to working in private practice, Dr Taylor worked in the NHS for 21 years, including 10 years as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in CAMHS. In addition to her work at the Leicester Psychology Clinic, Dr Taylor is currently Chair of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, which regulates and upholds standards in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in the NHS, private and third sector.
Main Therapeutic Approaches
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (including assessment, consultation work, brief work, parent and child sessions, supporting parents and carers, short-term individual psychotherapy, longer term psychotherapy and intensive psychotherapy.
Professional Registrations & Memberships
- Association of Child Psychotherapists, ACP (which is regulated by the Professional Standards Authority, PSA)
Qualifications
- D.Psych.Psych, Doctorate in Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, University of East London, 2009-17.
- MA (Distinction) Psychoanalytic Observational Studies, University of East London, 2005-2009.BSc Psychology 2(i), University of Wales Swansea, 1998-2001.
Specialisms
- Infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy
- Attachment difficulties, including Looked After and Adopted Children.
- Low mood, depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal thoughts