Caroline Piers Integrative Child Counselling

My name is Caroline Piers, and I work as an integrative counsellor with children, adolescents, young adults and parents in North London. Having worked for over 25 years in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in a number of different specialities and geographical locations, I am passionate about the role that a counsellor can have in helping young people recover from difficulties they may be having, maximising their potential in life and giving them a positive experience of seeking help from another.

An integrative approach allows the counsellor to draw on a number of different therapeutic modalities when working with a young person, rather than being limited to one way of working. At the heart of my work is the absolute importance of the young person and counsellor developing a relationship where the client feels listened to, trusted and understood. In my experience, it is when this relationship is attended to and developed that meaningful changes can occur in the work, and in the young person’s life. My training and clinical experience includes play and using the arts in therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, trauma-informed attachment-based approaches, family based systemic work, psychodynamic thinking and a number of other modalities.

I have had significant experience of working with children and teenagers of all ages in the NHS and independent sector, and in addition I offer my services to the older teenage/young adult bracket. My services also include parental therapeutic sessions, which can be of enormous value in the often significant challenges of supporting children through different stages of their lives.