Family and Systemic Psychotherapy Services
About Changeworks during COVID-19.
Alongside continued zoom sessions, from May 17th, I will be returning to offering face to face sessions to a limited number of clients and referrals. Please ask for more information.
Family and Systemic Therapist, MSc.
Hello, my name is Lynsey Waterhouse. I started my company Changeworks, in 2007.
I provide psychotherapy and counselling to children and adults. Family Therapists are very experienced professionals, who can help people talk together about feelings, behaviours and actions that are worrying or are causing people to be unhappy.
Over the years, I have also worked with many organisations offering direct therapy services, workshops, reflective practice and systemic consultations.
In March 2019 Changeworks moved to dedicated offices.
Find me at 12 Northgate, Chichester, PO19 1BA
Systemic Theory and how I work
A Family and Systemic Psychotherapist is interested in the patterns of conversations people have with one another, sometimes these can be unhelpful or cause frustrations or leave people feeling their needs are not being met.
The context of a conversation is also helpful to explore, as interactions can be impacted by power, gender, beliefs, education, religion and culture.
Changeworks supports:
Developing opportunities for people to communicate together about their lives
Encouraging children and families to talk openly and honestly about their thoughts and feelings
Creating a safe space where dilemmas can be identified and explored
Find out more about family therapy
Referrals
Changeworks is based in Chichester, West Sussex. Individuals, Couples and Parents can referral themselves and I welcome enquiries from GP's or other Health and Social Care Professionals.
If you would like to discuss support, or if you have any further questions you can contact me either by telephone on 07759 786715 or by email at lynsey@changeworkssussex.co.uk.
Individual, Couple and Family Therapy.
How will we talk together?
When I first meet new clients, I am interested to hear from everyone, what they think is not going well. Each person might have their own story about what is going wrong and what or who needs to change.
- Communication might be a problem and individuals might feel their needs are not being met.
- Parents might be concerned about a child's behaviour
- A couple might be arguing and becoming unable to talk together.
I encourage people to be curious, asking questions about what they hear. Helping couples and families understand behaviours and exploring what impact it has on their relationships. By providing play equipment, puppets and pens and paper children and adults can help each other understand thoughts and feelings, when words are sometimes not enough.
How to book an appointment
Family Therapy sessions, for individuals, couples and families are for one hour and are charged at £70.00.
If you have any questions please contact me by email at
lynsey@changeworkssussex.co.uk
Alternatively you may also contact me on 07759 786715.
Confidentiality
Changeworks is committed to safe and professionally accountable practice. Information will remain confidential unless, with client agreement, it is felt to be beneficial to share information with a GP or other identified professionals. If I have reason to believe that a child or adult is at risk of harm to themselves or to others then the information may need to be shared without consent.
Client feedback
Reflective Practice & Consultation Services
Professional support for caring professionals
Over the years I have met many Nurses, Doctors and Carers in the field of child disability or chronic illness who do not feel they have appropriate, supportive supervision.
The Royal College of Nursing Competencies in Palliative Care for Children and Young People 2012, states that "level 8 nurses should act as a facilitator for staff who require bereavement support, debrief staff and provide clinical supervision, mentor staff and understand and seek their own appropriate clinical superivison".
“At a personal level, Doctors need help in: • forming realistic expectations of themselves • accepting the feelings that some situations and patients produce • having a life outside of work • handling change and transitions • understanding the system in which they work • coping with unreasonable and stressful workloads. (Owen, Shohet and Owen, 2012)
Reflective Practice and Systemic Consultation can provide
Good support for others, begins with your own professional support.
NICE, (2004) recommends the task of supervision to a level four professional. As a qualified and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, with NHS and Charitable sector experience, I am ready to provide you with the advanced clinical skills, along with relevant experiences of working with children and families, young people with additional needs and themes of disability, illness and bereavement.
I provide individual, reflective practice from £60.00 per person. For teams or groups please contact me with your specific requirements for a tailored quote.
An example of a Systemic Consultation
Children's Hospice Service - Children's palliative care Nurses and Carers.
In leading the consultation, I invited everyone to help map out the family composition using information like age, marital status, and relationships to one another. I also used a pictorial tool called a Genogram and together we created a helpful diagram of the family members, their relationship to one another along with a summary of the presenting difficulty. I then invited each person in the group to make observations about how they saw the difficulty. We teased out several themes from the conversation and then focused on how we might go about addressing these.
The outcome from the consultation was a clear plan, with action points identified between the relevant professionals that were key working the case and an agreed date to bring this back to the group for ongoing feedback.
Systemic Reflective Practice
One to one support for an NHS Consultant - reflection and support
The Consultant had to break some bad news to a young person about the deterioration of their chronic condition. They had an existing relationship but the young person's family didn't feel able to listen to the information, wanting a second opinion from another Doctor. This was very difficult for the Doctor, as he wanted to support the family in their wish and offered to arrange the second option but as the family then didn't wish for the Doctor to continue to see the young person, his relationship with this young person ended, at a critical time in the young persons treatment. The Consultant had lots of feelings such as failure, sadness and frustration.
Events
Journal writing allows everyone to take control of their emotional wellbeing and our weekly workshops provide a regular, facilitated space where ideas and exercises will help you begin.
Contact me
Changeworks provides high quality, evidenced based therapeutic services.
Family Therapy is specialised and has a strong and historic evidence base. Changeworks can work with private individuals, families and couples, but also collaboratively with organisations and businesses. If you wish to make a referral or you have any questions about Changeworks services then please contact me by email or use the contact form below.