My Family Psychologist
My Family Psychologist is a responsive, experienced, and highly individualised family therapy service to help you, your family and children understand and overcome your specific challenges. My Family Psychologist specialises in the mental health challenges faced by couples, young people, and specifically teenagers.
Assessment and treatment of families, young people and teenagers.
Are you and your family experiencing difficulties in your relationships?
Is your child or teenager facing psychological issues you feel powerless to help with?
Are you confused or overwhelmed by your child’s mental health or behaviours and not sure who or where to turn to?
My Family Psychologist has over 20 year’s experience in the assessment and treatment of families and young people, providing a highly specialised and safe environment where you and your family can overcome your difficulties with effective family therapy for parents, couples and teens.
Challenges faced by young people and teenagers
Young people are developing beings whose growth can be compromised by a myriad of factors including; their environment, experiences, and genetic influences.
A child can lose the ability to trust due to a disruption, a compromise, or an unmet need, especially during infancy.
Older children experience identity confusion, which is a natural stage of teenage development. However, even within the most supportive of families, this development can be compromised by numerous external factors. In such cases, parents can feel marginalised and powerless to help.
With the best of intentions, even highly effective and invested parents can further damage young people with well meaning intervention.
My Family Psychologist is an impartial, evidence-based, and highly skilled service which exists to helps get you and your family back on the right track to psychological well being, cohesion, and happiness.
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Services for families and young people
My Family Psychologist provides a range of tailored assessments and treatments both face to face and online.
My Family Psychologist’s ethos is to provide a highly responsive, evidence-based, and bespoke service to improve your family and child’s well being.
Some of the issues that we have successfully helped with and treated:
Here are some of the treatments I specialise in
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Family Systematic Therapy
- Habit Formation Therapy
- Mindfulness
- Therapy for Teenagers
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
- Behaviour Modification
- Aversion Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Couple's Therapy
- Transactional Analysis
- Logotherapy
- Mindfulness and Meditation Training
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multitheorectical Psychotherapy
- Group Therapy and Structured Programmes
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Systematic Desensitisation
- Graded Exposure Therapy
- Psychosocial Interventions
- Exposure Therapy
- Social Skills Training
- Schema Therapy
- Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA)
- Attachment Focused Therapy
- Parent Child Interaction Therapy
- Parenting Skills Training
Experienced, Empathic, and Evidence-Based Psychological Care.
With your child or teenager in my care, you can rest assured that my training, professional and personal experience blends to provide a unique, highly individualised and bespoke service.
Psychological therapies have a strong evidence-based and a high level of success especially when aimed at younger people. Young people are continually developing; their brain is still in development and their personality has not fully formed. As such, a highly tailored approach is required, unique to the young person and their specific needs. These approaches are also tailored to the unique culture and society in which we now live, such as social media, technological advancements, and image pressures for example, and the very different experiences to which older generations faced.
With up-to-date processes and a positive approach to therapy, especially child therapy and psychology we have built great relationships with many patients and supported, not just them but their families for many years.
We create environments of mutual trust and confidentiality. Rest assured that we will treat your child or teenager with respect, care and thoughtfulness throughout each of their sessions with us.
Client Testimonials
“It is difficult to find words enough to describe my gratitude to Luisa. As a dedicated parent and professional who deals with complex health issues, I was utterly devastated when my teen child displayed signs of serious mental distress.
We talk often and have a good relationship but the rapid and scary decline was something we needed urgent help with. I simply couldn’t understand how or why this had happened to my child, a normally relaxed, funny and friendly young person. In my first desperate phone call, Luisa was so calm and reassuring, she instantly made me feel safe.
My child has had several sessions with Luisa now and has made incredible progress, trusts her implicitly, and is learning to find solutions. Singing again, smiling, laughing, and has started to build that mental resilience that is needed for life.
As a parent t was important that I didn’t jut cry or get cross in response to their behaviour. I also had a session with Luisa to increase my awareness and skill set dealing with this situation. Whatever formula Luisa uses works, she has literally been our saviour. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
Sally C
Remote Support Available
My Family Psychologist are here to help you and your family, even if you are in isolation.All our Psychologists and Therapists can work over Zoom if required.Contact us on 07801 079555 to find out more.
Our Offices In Morpeth and Newcastle
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In Crisis
In Crisis? If you feel you or someone else is at imminent risk there are a number of services and organisations who can help:Go to your local A&E
Call The Police
Contact your local NHS Crisis Team
Contact your local Single Point of Access.
If you need to talk to someone, there are a number of charitable organisations who can help:
Text THEMIX to 85258 – talking support for young people
Call The Samaritans on 116123 or email jo@samaritans.org
Visit www.thecalmzone.net – The Campaign Against Living Miserably, specifically aimed at men under 45.
Call Family Lives on 0808 800 2222 – support for families and parenting.
Childline – 0800 1111.
If you are experiencing domestic abuse you can contact Refuge on their 24 hour helpline 0808 2000247.
Anxiety UK recommends the apple technique in triggering situations:
APPLE
Acknowledge the uncertainty as it comes to mind.
Pause – Don’t react as you normally do. Don’t react at all. Just pause and breath.
Pull back – Tell yourself this is just the worry talking, and this apparent need for certainty is not helpful and not necessary. It is only a thought or feeling. Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are not statements or facts.
Let go – Let go of the thought or feeling. It will pass. You don’t have to respond to them. You might imagine them floating away in a bubble or cloud.
Explore – Explore the present moment, because right now, in this moment, all is well. Notice your breathing and the sensations of your breathing. Notice the ground beneath you. Look around and notice what you see, what you hear, what you can touch, what you can smell. Right now. Then shift your focus of attention to something else – on what you need to do, on what you were doing before you noticed the worry, or do something else – mindfully with your full attention.