Private therapy for teenager

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Hi,
My teen has been referred to Camhs. The wait for therapy will be long. I also have a private referral but don’t know where to start to find a therapist.
Any advice? Thanks in advance x

The British psychological society has a search tool here.

Relate also offer counselling for teens.

Thank you-I’ll take a look.
I have been given the name of Drs at the Cardinal Clinic in Windsor. Does anyone have any experience with this clinic?

They should be bps registered. Just googling at the start of this journey is incredibly hard and something I found (five years ago now) was because dd was actively self harming, many of the people I spoke to felt she needed more specialist care, ie, through CAMHS but she didn't meet the Camhs threshold.

As a poster has already mentioned relate are excellent. Another tip is to find small private organisations who offer counselling because there is likely to be more accountability.

If your CAMHS uses other organisations such as Heads Together/YMCA Google those organisations and then Google the people listed as working for them. You may find they run private practices alongside. It's a chicken and egg situation, camhs can't help, no-one in the NHS will refer privately but half of them work part-time for the NHS and then have their private practices.

Thank you 😊 Camhs have offered a remote BBA therapy course so have taken up that offer as a starting point and have begun the process with Cardinal for further support.

What’s BBA op? Is your DC finding it helpful?

It’s Brief Behaviour Activation I believe and it was explained to me that it was similar to CBT. We tried it, the actual sessions were ok-they focussed on how DC chose to spend their time and the value it gave. Downside was it came with homework tasks and they insisted on running the sessions during the school day, at school which my DC found increased the anxiety due to missing lessons and having to pluck up the confidence to disturb staff to find an isolated room to make a zoom call from. It was also very general and didn’t focus on the issues we specifically needed help for. We decided not to continue.
We are now having family CBT privately. 🤞