Process Oriented Child Psychotherapy – Child & Family Work – Mark O’Connell Dipl POP Dipl FT Dipl AA | The Apricot Centre

Professional Registered Titles: Child Psychotherapist (NGP – UKCP), Process Oriented Psychologist (HIPS – UKCP) Professional Memberships: Northern Guild of Psychotherapy (UKCP) Main Qualifications: Diploma in Process Oriented Psychology (1996 RSPOPUK/RSPOP Zurich), Diplomat in Family Systems Therapy (1994 Plymouth Uni), Post-grad Diploma in Attachment and Adoption (2010 Family Futures Consortium): · Child & Family Assessment · Looked-after, Fostered & Adopted Children (only by contract from OFSTED registered organisation) · Child Psychotherapy (Using a wide-range of modalities appropriate to individual child) · Perinatal and Postnatal Support · Postnatal Depression · Child and Parent Attunement/Attachment · Foster and Adoptive Parenting · Couple Relationship Work (Sexual issues, conception, abortion, parenting, welcome non-mainstream relationships, domestic violence, conflict, separation, divorce) · Parenting (Complex and diversity issues, lesbian gay bisexual & transgender (LGBT) parenting, parenting LGBT children, Cross-cultural Transracial & Mixed-religion parenting, parenting with altered and extreme states within parenting, social/emotional/behavioural/developmental themes, sleep and eating disturbances, separation, divorce, bereavement) · Schools – Teachers – Teaching Assistants – Supporting non-mainstream children, bullying, trauma, attachment difficulties, developmental delays, social/emotional/behavioural difficulties, communication) · Clinical Supervision - Therapists working with Children, Parents and Families · Consultation and Supervision for; Social Workers, Nurture Groups, Therapeutic Teams, Behavioural Support Units, Residential Children’s Homes/Schools · Non-mainstream Family Support - Extended, Merged & Mixed Families · Conflict Resolution and Communication I specialise in process oriented child psychotherapy with children and working with families and schools. I am based at the Apricot Centre on the Essex / Suffolk Border (Tendring District near Manningtree, Ardleigh, Lawford, Dedham Vale, Harwich), which is accessible from East Anglia and London. I am qualified Process Oriented Psychologist and UKCP Registered Child Psychotherapist offering therapy sessions for adults, children, families, parents and couples, as well as various group workshops for teachers, therapists and other professionals (CPD) .