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 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 families 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.  

Working with trauma (at all levels) I am an Accredited EMDR therapist and I am also a qualified CYP EMDR therapist. I use EMDR for many forms of therapy including attachment, grief, couples and addiction. 

I am a qualified supervisor for CYP and adult counsellors/trainees. 

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 half hour session over the telephone/zoom for free. This enables you to decide whether you think our therapeutic alliance would be a good fit as well as giving 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 trained to offer sandtray, play and art therapies as well as offering 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.