Fiona Battey

I am an Accredited EMDR therapist, a qualified and experienced Children and Young Person (CYP) Counsellor and a systemic family practitioner. I am psychodynamically trained and work with adults as well as children and young people. 

I have extensive training and experience in EMDR therapy including EMDR (Attachment Informed), EMDR (Internal Family Systems) and EMDR for Children and Young People. These are comprehensive, integrative therapeutic approaches and contain elements of effective psychotherapy in structured protocols that are designed to maximize treatment effects. I offer you the opportunity to work on life events that may have affected you, as well as tackling developmental trauma from your early years of growing up. As we build up the therapeutic relationship of respect, trust and understanding we focus on your needs and goals which in turn leads to beneficial changes and promotes change and stability.

EMDR is recognised as being one of the most effective forms of therapy for those suffering from trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD as well as developmental trauma; EMDR can be used with every client.

As a qualified CYP therapist I use art, play, sandtray and talking mediums to help facilitate emotional processing - working with the metaphor helps clarify and rationalise presenting issues which in turn helps the client to help themselves find solutions to their aims of therapy.

I primarily work with adults and children using interactive and revealing processes that, again, assist the clients in understanding their own thought processes and interactions with other people including family members. The therapeutic space encourages emotional exploration of self and awareness of others within their immediate family, friendship and work dynamic.  

I am a qualified supervisor for CYP and adult counsellors/trainees. I am also an EMDR Consultant in Training.

I work from my own address using a separate building specifically designed for adult, children and young people, family and EMDR therapy. I also work online - this works extremely successfully particularly with EMDR. 

I can work in a school setting as well as  travel to work-based setting if there is a requirement.

I offer an initial complimentary half hour session over the zoom. This enables you to decide whether you think our therapeutic alliance would be a good fit as well as giving you an idea of the way forward using one or a combination of my specialist therapeutic  models.

I am a qualified Supervisor for CYP and adult therapists/trainees. Using my experience as CYP and adult therapist I am comfortable with working with both experienced and trainee therapists. Although I am primarily psychodynamic trained I have extensive CPD training incorporating other modalities. 

The sessions will be held over zoom unless otherwise arranged.

I am an experienced counsellor/psychotherapist who works with individual adults, couples, children age 5 and above, young people and families. I work with a wide range of issues and problems including anxiety depression and mood-related issues anger/aggression eating disorders and body image issues relationship issues bullying bereavement / grief obsessive compulsive disorder OCD self-harm stress substance misuse/addiction alcohol-related issues post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD Asperger's and many more issues. I am particularly interested in working with children, young people, and families, as well as working with adults with work-related issues, social interaction, anger, anxiety and stress. I work in an empathetic, non-judgmental way with clients, treating each person as an individual and tailors my approach according to their specific needs and preferences. I offer a number of therapeutic approaches including person-centred and psychodynamic, psychotherapy, systemic relationship counselling, and EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) for trauma and other issues. As a qualified psychodynamic Children and Young Person therapist, I am a qualified  CYP therapist as well as CYP EMDR (Advanced) and systemic therapy for individuals and families. I have worked in a number of different settings including Primary and High Schools, a youth community project within the charity sector and a number of third sector agencies together with my private practice. I have a Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People, a Foundation Certificate in Art Therapy, am a qualified Systemic Family Therapy Practitioner as well as an EMDR and CYP EMDR therapist working is towards accreditation in the latter. I am an accredited member of the BACP (BACP reg no 218417) and a member of EMDR Association UK and Ireland (mem no B0584).

I offer a free half hour session over the telephone/zoom to discuss your supervision aims and needs as well as a way forward within our working relationship.