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'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 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' '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

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Di Gammage, MA, UKCP, trained as a Dramatherapist and Play Therapist in the 1980s and early 1990s respectively. In 2010, she completed her training in Buddhist Psychotherapy from the Karuna Institute, Devon, and was accepted onto the UKCP Child Psychotherapy register in 2013.  Di has worked in charities including the NSPCC Child Sexual Abuse Consultancy in Manchester with Anne Bannister, the NHS and the private sector as a psychotherapist and supervisor. She has taught at Terapia since 2006 on the Play Therapy Residential, Dramatherapy, and Working with Children and Young People who have experienced sexual abuse modules. Di is the author of ‘Playful Awakening - Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life’ (JKP, 2017). She currently practises in an independent fostercare agency in the South West together with her private practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing with Teeside University achieving a Distinction. Di continues to explore the integration of creative writing and well-being both for children and adults. Di lives in Devon.

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