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One Tree, Many Branches: The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Editor : Bozena Merrick, Editor : Di Gammage

Reviews and Endorsements

This most welcome book addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the practice of integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy. It sensitively tackles a multitude of important topics, bringing the client’s experiences, and the reparative relationships formed with the therapist, to life in a warm and inspirational way. This is a beautiful text, a must-read for all humanistic and integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists.
Eileen Prendiville, psychotherapist, play therapist, and author; Director, Academic Affairs, Children’s Therapy Centre, Ireland

This excellent book demonstrates how integrative child psychotherapy has more than come of age. Brave, moving, clinically and intellectually rigorous, its chapters interrogate and illuminate essential contemporary therapeutic subjects, from neurodiversity to race to the body to displacement to systems and so much more. This is a marvellous and rich resource for experienced and newer therapists and anyone working with children.
Graham Music, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, Tavistock Centre, London, and author of Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology

This important book expands both theory and practice for integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists in a rigorous and approachable way. Timely, pertinent, and moving, this book is beautifully written and edited. I highly recommend this powerful and sensitive collection of essays; there is something useful here for all trainees, therapists, lecturers, and supervisors.
Ellie Baker, integrative child psychotherapist, director of The Therapeutic Arts Diploma, and co-director of the Teenage Therapeutic Counselling Diploma at Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London

Contributors provide insight for counselling practitioners looking to support integrative ways of working with children and young people, and an array of strategies for therapeutic work with diverse populations. [...] The chapter on 'Somatic countertransference to ground autistic states' exemplifies the book's commitment to innovative approaches, exploring how various bodily experiences can support autistic clients. Meanwhile, discussions on racial trauma and female genital mutilation highlight the book's dedication to addressing sensitive and complex issues with trauma-informed strategies. [...] This book provides practitioners with a rich assortment of insights to elevate their counselling practice when working with children and adolescents across a diverse range of contexts and challenges.
Beverly Neeson, counsellor in private practice and counselling lecturer, BACP Therapy Today, May 2024, 35:4