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KATIE MOUNTSTEVENS....
Katie is a skilled family practitioner with over 25 years experience of working with children, young people, parents & their families.
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Katie is a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy informed practitioner, a Certified Theraplay Practitioner, a qualified Social Worker, a licensed Family Group Facilitator and has additional training in Trauma, Therapeutic Parenting, Life Story work and Supervision.
She has worked for the Local Authority, as a senior practitioner for a leading children’s charity, as a supporting and assessing Social Worker for an Independent Adoption Agency and in private practice as a Family Consultant.
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Katie is also a parent, and as such, has weathered many challenging parenting situations herself; her family have all survived these challenges and have successfully made the transitions from baby to adulthood!
Katie offers an attachment-based approach, which focuses on the relationships within the family and the internal family systems. As such, she aims to build an alliance with the parents, so that she can join your ‘therapeutic team’ so together you can move forward and help support your child.
Katie has significant experience of working with Parents and their children who have experienced: anxiety; attachment difficulties; behavioural challenges; elective mutism, exploitation; relationship difficulties; sexual violence; teenage challenges and trauma.
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Katie is an integrative Therapist, which means she has a “toolbox” of skills and techniques from different therapeutic orientations, which are drawn upon depending on the circumstances. However, the basis of all her work is Attachment Theory and a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) informed practice.
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Katie works together with the parents to identify difficulties and underlying issues that the family are facing. She then provides tailored family support to help guide your family through the challenges they are facing.
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Katie engages well with children and young people across all ages. She is able to develop and establish trusting and supportive relationships, without which, no meaningful work can take place.
Professional Associations & Qualifications
MSc Social Work (1993)
Certificate in Qualified Social Work (1993)
Baby Massage Instructor (1998)
Advanced Practitioners Certificate in Counselling Children (2010)
Diploma in Youth Counselling (2011)
Licensed Family Group Facilitator, Care for the Family (2016)
Diploma in Family Counselling (2017)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy level 1(2017)
Theraplay level 1 (2017)
Family Mediation (2017)
Certificate in Family Therapy (2017)
Theraplay Level 2 (2018)
OCN Sleep Training Level 3 (2018)
Foundational level Theraplay (2018)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy level 2 (2019)
Advanced Safeguarding for Children (Level2) (2020)
Certified Theraplay Practitioner(2021)
APT Accreditation in Clinical Supervision Levels 1 and 2 (2021)
Internal Family Systems, clinical applications (2022)
Delivering Nurturing Attachments and Foundations for attachment, Train the Trainer program (2022)
Building Under Developed Sensory Systems Level 1 (2022)
Katie is a registered member of Social Work England
Katie Mountstevens
Email: katie.btfc@gmail.com
Tel: 07402 223763
Further training...
Working with developmental trauma, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, Youth Advocacy, Engaging Vulnerable young people, Sexuality and gender, complex attachment, counselling young people and families, domestic violence and abuse, safe engagement with domestic abuse perpetrators, using mentalisation in effective direct work. attachment- focused family therapy, Evidence and Analysis guidance for Fostering Form F Assessment, Supervision skills for Managers, Working with Families Therapeutically, Working with families affected by sexual exploitation, PACE for practitioners, 'Taming the Tiger' helping traumatised children, Working with Relational Trauma: dealing with disorganised attachment, Trauma, dissociation and recovery, The web of shame in the therapeutic space, The body holds the score, sensory processing, sensory attachment intervention, life story work with troubled children and teenagers, suicide and self-harm, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for children and young people with post-traumatic stress disorder, Mental health and the body: treating trauma, Therapeutic Life Story Work, Working with Shame, Story Stem Assessment Profile Training, 1,2,3 Magic 3 step discipline for calm, effective and happy parenting; Attachment and attuned parenting: The power of showing up; 10 brain based strategies: Help children overcome anxiety and promote resilience; Anxisou kids, anxious parents: Changing the family dance; Collaborative and proactive solutions for challenging kids: a 5-session approach to stop behavioural difficulties; the role of Play and creativity in Psychotherapy.