Hello, my name is Claire, I am an Accredited Play and Creative Arts Therapist, Creative Clinical Supervisor, and Certified SandStory Therapy® Trainer. I have completed further training in SandStory Therapy®, Therapeutic Life Story Work, Child-Parent Relationship Therapy, and Heart to Heart: Attachment Play. I work with children and young people from ages 3-16 years, and their families in Dorset.
I moved to Dorset from the North West of England in July 2017. Prior to my move I worked as a therapist in inner city schools across Liverpool, Warrington, and Manchester including mainstream primary schools, a special needs school, and pupil referral units. Since moving to Dorset I have worked for Families for Children Adoption, and Dorset and South Wiltshire Relate. I currently work as an independent therapist in private practice, as a bereavement therapist for the county-wide charity Mosaic supporting bereaved children, and I am accredited by BCP Council as an approved provider of adoption therapies for the Regional Adoption Agency, Aspire Adoption.
I frequently have very limited availability for new clients or supervisees, but please do make contact and I can hopefully refer you on to another therapist or supervisor if I am unable to help.
I moved to Dorset from the North West of England in July 2017. Prior to my move I worked as a therapist in inner city schools across Liverpool, Warrington, and Manchester including mainstream primary schools, a special needs school, and pupil referral units. Since moving to Dorset I have worked for Families for Children Adoption, and Dorset and South Wiltshire Relate. I currently work as an independent therapist in private practice, as a bereavement therapist for the county-wide charity Mosaic supporting bereaved children, and I am accredited by BCP Council as an approved provider of adoption therapies for the Regional Adoption Agency, Aspire Adoption.
I frequently have very limited availability for new clients or supervisees, but please do make contact and I can hopefully refer you on to another therapist or supervisor if I am unable to help.
I have worked with children and young people presenting with a wide variety of difficulties and life experiences, including attachment difficulties, abuse, neglect, loss, bereavement, self-harm, suicidality, anger, parental separation/divorce, aggression, school phobia, peer relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, low self-confidence, fostered, adopted, anxiety, school exclusions, sexualised and sexually harmful behaviours, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and global developmental delay.
Prior to training and working as a therapist, I worked in a diverse range of roles with children and families including in nurseries, schools, children's centres, domestic abuse services, and a children's hospice. I have also delivered a careers talk about Play Therapy to college students (2015), and I worked as a guest lecturer in both the Education, and Social Sciences Departments at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, delivering lectures to undergraduate students on 'Team Around the Child and Domestic Abuse' (2012-2013), and Play Therapy Theory and Practice (2011-2015).
Prior to training and working as a therapist, I worked in a diverse range of roles with children and families including in nurseries, schools, children's centres, domestic abuse services, and a children's hospice. I have also delivered a careers talk about Play Therapy to college students (2015), and I worked as a guest lecturer in both the Education, and Social Sciences Departments at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, delivering lectures to undergraduate students on 'Team Around the Child and Domestic Abuse' (2012-2013), and Play Therapy Theory and Practice (2011-2015).