Fiona Melvin
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Fiona Melvin
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Tel no – 07810632640
I am a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who specialises in working with children, adolescents and young adults with a wide range of mental health difficulties including trauma, abuse, neglect, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, developmental disorders, low self-esteem, attachment difficulties and other emotional and behavioural difficulties.
I provide a protected and confidential therapeutic space to carefully observe, explore and interpret various forms of communication, verbal and non-verbal, conscious and unconscious. In therapy children and young people can explore their feelings, which enhances understanding, relieves symptoms, and, over time, facilitates change. I offer assessments, brief and long-term psychotherapy to individuals, parent and family work, consultation to the wider professional network and clinical supervision to professionals, students and trainee psychotherapists.
I trained in London at the Tavistock and the BPF (British Psychotherapy Foundation). I work with a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic model, exploring through play, arts and crafts, with younger children and through talking with adolescents and young adults up to the age of 25.
I have 20 years of experience working in NHS child and adolescent mental health in Specialist Services, from adolescent inpatient units, to out-patient CAMHS clinics including hospital settings and 10 years in private practice, previously in central London, St Albans and Hitchin. I also have experience working in Education and Social Services, and teaching as Work Discussion Seminar Leader on the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development at the BPF.
I am a member of the ACP (Association of Child Psychotherapists).
You are very welcome to contact me for an initial discussion on 07810632640 or email me at fionamelvin@icloud.com.