Professional Experience

Natalie Turner is a qualified Systemic & Family Psychotherapist and a Psychodynamic Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist. Natalie has worked with young people for over 15 years in a number of different settings: community centres, primary and secondary schools, an adolescent psychoanalytic charity and a youth offending service. For the past 4 years Natalie has worked in a specialist CAMHS (child & adolescent mental health service) as a Family Therapist, working with families both as an individual therapist and within a family therapy clinic.

Throughout her career, Natalie has come to understand the importance of being interested in viewing a young person within their different contexts: family, peer, school and their wider social and political contexts. She works with young people who present with a number of different struggles, including complex mental health.

More about me

I initially trained as a Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working with young people individually. I became interested in how the dynamics of the young person’s family and their wider context impacted them. I decided to study further and qualified as a Systemic & Family Psychotherapist.

When working with families I believe in creating a curious space in which the patterns of communication can be explored and multiple perspectives held. I keep in mind my psychodynamic training and experience, particularly when thinking about unconscious patterns, which might be an intergenerational legacy. When I meet with families, I aim to help them to set mutual goals, to view behaviour as a communication and link this to a feeling and an invitation for a response. I believe in working within a compassionate framework, drawing on the strengths of the family. I aim to co-construct a space with the family in which difficult conversations can be held and change can be thought about.

Qualifications

• MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy - Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

• MSc in Psychological Therapies, Children, Young People and Families - Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

• Systemic Approaches to working with Individuals, Families & Organisations (Intermediate) - Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust             

• Certificate in Systemic Practice - Institute of Family Therapy

• Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Well-being: Multidisciplinary Practice - Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

• Level 3 Counselling Children - Place2be

• Early Childhood Diploma (Level 4) - Montessori Centre International                 

Natalie works on Monday afternoons, Saturday mornings and at various adhoc times for appointments and assessments.

To find out more about Natalie’s availability, please speak with the team here, or contact +44 7706 192412