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.

Acknowledgements



About the editors and contributors



Foreword



Introduction: Seeds sown

Bozena Merrick and Di Gammage



Part I: Therapeutic holding

1. Ecopsychotherapy with children and young people in mind: attachment to place, nature, and landscape





Alix Hearn



2. Airy creatures: using somatic countertransference to ground autistic states in child psychotherapy

Magda Raczynska



3. The absent other: reflections on the absence of male, integrative child and adolescent psychotherapists

Jamie Butterworth



Part II: Race and cultural identity

4. Meet them where they are: integrative psychotherapy with refugee children and young people





Evania Inward



5. Unveiling racial trauma in the practice of the integrative child and adolescent psychotherapist

Audrey Adeyemi



6. Understanding the trauma and implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through child psychotherapy

Irene Mburu



7. Working with children and young people in the Orthodox Jewish Community

Zisi Schleider



8. Go well: Exploring themes of grief and loss in therapy with children and young people

Tasha Bailey



Part III: Neurodivergence and differently wired brains

9. Working therapeutically with uniquely wired children





Sasha Morphitis



10. Is it too late? The contribution of the integrative child psychotherapist to those affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Anna Tuttle



Part IV: Systemic issues and working within systems

11. An ongoing conversation…What (really) works in therapeutic residential care





Kelly Brackett



12. Working through play on the mentalizing capacity of controlling-caregiving children who suffered early relational trauma

Nadja Rolli



Index