Lucy Joy

Health Care Professions Council Registration (HCPC) number AS15333 and Member of BAATN - https://www.baatn.org.uk , Practitioner certified in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
Lucy is a Creative Arts Psychotherapist specialising in Dramatherapy, EMDR Trained (Children, Adolescents and Adults). She is also a Dyadic Developmental Practitioner (DDP) Lucy specialises in: Adoption, Anxiety, Dissociation, Early Developmental Trauma, Grief, Loss, Love, Racialised Trauma, Trauma, and Working Towards Healing. Lucy works together with primary aged children and parents/carers together in the space. She also works with Teenagers and Adults. Lucy is also creates bespoke Therapeutic Theatre Trainings, Performances and Workshops and works within Schools, Organisations and Charities.

Lucy is a calm, kind and fun Creative Arts Psychotherapist and offers a different unique way for children, young people and adults to express themselves. She brings a wealth of experience having worked in mainstream and special educational schools, alternative education provisions, CAMHS, Trauma Teams and in private practice.

Lucy supports children, young people and adults to find creative ways to communicate and to express themselves, which might include feelings or experiences they may find hard to put into words.

Lucy is committed to help understand and support these brave and courageous children, adolescents and adults, giving them the freedom to set their own pace to achieve happiness and empowerment. She supports people to find their own creative ways of working that are right for them. She gives them the opportunity to face their fears with bravery in a safe confidential space. Lucy also invites everyone to experience the freedom to laugh and to play alongside the work of the difficult issues they may be facing.

Lucy draws on her qualifications as a registered Dramatherapist, EMDR Trainer and Dyadic Developmental Practitioner (DDP) and has a special focus on adoption and foster care issues derived from her own personal experiences. She supports and collaborates with children who have been fostered, adopted and are under special guardianship and their parents/carers individually and together.

Lucy is unable to accept any private healthcare medical insurance for therapy referrals.

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