One Tree, Many Branches

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.

'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.'

• AcknowledgementsAbout the editors and contributorsForewordIntroduction: Seeds sownBozena Merrick and Di GammagePart I: Therapeutic holding1. Ecopsychotherapy with children and young people in mind: attachment to place, nature, and landscapeAlix Hearn2. Airy creatures: using somatic countertransference to ground autistic states in child psychotherapyMagda Raczynska3. The absent other: reflections on the absence of male, integrative child and adolescent psychotherapistsJamie ButterworthPart II: Race and cultural identity4. Meet them where they are: integrative psychotherapy with refugee children and young peopleEvania Inward5. Unveiling racial trauma in the practice of the integrative child and adolescent psychotherapistAudrey Adeyemi6. Understanding the trauma and implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through child psychotherapyIrene Mburu7. Working with children and young people in the Orthodox Jewish CommunityZisi Schleider8. Go well: Exploring themes of grief and loss in therapy with children and young peopleTasha BaileyPart III: Neurodivergence and differently wired brains9. Working therapeutically with uniquely wired childrenSasha Morphitis10. Is it too late? The contribution of the integrative child psychotherapist to those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum DisorderAnna TuttlePart IV: Systemic issues and working within systems11. An ongoing conversation…What (really) works in therapeutic residential careKelly Brackett12. Working through play on the mentalizing capacity of controlling-caregiving children who suffered early relational traumaNadja RolliIndex