Court work

Systemic Family Therapy

A therapy service for individuals, couples and families

Specialist court work: consultations, assessment and therapeutic services for family work requested by courts and local authorities

I am an experienced systemic family psychotherapist. In my NHS practice I teach and train, and undertake clinical work at the internationally-renowned Tavistock Centre.

In my private practice I provide assessments and reports for the Family Courts in child care and contact cases. I carry out effective therapeutic interventions in adoption, fostering and care cases. I have worked in the statutory and voluntary sector with children and families in different contexts, including court-mandated assessment and treatment work in complex child protection cases. I have appeared as an Expert Witness in Court proceedings, and have worked for the Family Court Service.

My specialist assessments include:

Systemic family, and siblings’ assessments; e.g. siblings’ attachment assessment for helping with decisions about children's permanence and finalising adoption placements.
Parenting assessments, which include capacity to change.
Psychosocial, psycho-educational and family interventions; i.e. a holistic approach which involves family members in the process of change through gaining knowledge and insight into what is inhibiting attuned parenting. These assessments include thorough examination and treatment of attachment disruptions, which interfere with parents’ capacity to regulate their emotions and put their children’s needs to the forefront.
My systemic training allows me to provide culturally competent assessments which consider different parenting styles and attitudes originating from very different non-western ways of bringing up children. I can engage parents across cultures to examine these highly sensitive issues with transparency and respect.
I have also worked with domestic abuse, domestic violence and sexual abuse including the impact of this on children's development and well-being.

My therapeutic support covers a wide range of areas: family mediation, relationships and couple work, attachment work, protective behaviour work and work on surviving sexual and domestic abuse.

See also my website at http://www.eucconsulting.co.uk/