Jo Hart

Jo Hart - Psychotherapist

MA in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling (MA Psych, accredited member of UKCP). Additionally, Jo is a qualified Occupational Therapist (BSc Hons. OT, member of HCPC).

Key Experiences:

• Jo has worked therapeutically with children and young people since 1993 in the NHS, schools, private and charity sectors.

• Jo’s integrative approach allows her to draw on a range of theoretical disciplines including attachment and neuroscience. She offers a warm, compassionate, and containing relationship, using both talking therapy and creative means of exploring the inner world, such as play, paints, drawing and sand-tray. These can help young people feel safe and supported, become able to explore and understand their internal world and find new ways of managing life and relationships.

• Jo also works with parents/carers and provides a non-judgemental environment for them to think about their child, the day to day issues of parenting and support them in improving their relationship with their child.

• Jo has worked in voluntary settings and established a service in a primary school. She has managed a school counselling project for a national children’s charity working therapeutically with children, parents and staff both individually and in groups.

• She is a contracted trainer on professional qualifications courses and workshops for trainee counsellors. Jo has extensive experience of working with external agencies and multi-disciplinary teams.

• She is also a paediatric Occupational Therapist and has extensive knowledge of child development and the physical and emotional impact of disability and developmental difficulties on daily life. This experience informs and enhances her work as a psychotherapist. She currently works at a specialist, therapeutic adoption service.

Jo’s special interests:

• Children and young people experiencing issues of self-esteem, anxiety, identity, school refusal, peer and family relationships and in response to particular life challenges such as developmental difficulties (e.g. learning difficulties, ADHD, Autism) or difficult life events (e.g. loss, illness, bereavement, divorce, attachment issues, domestic violence and trauma).