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I talk to two fellow Educational Psychotherapists about how we define what we do.

We did this partly to help ourselves figure it out! But also because, being quite a niche field, we find ourselves having to explain it a lot.

We got into some of our ways of working with young people, the 'task' that differentiate Educational Psychotherapy from other types of psychotherapy (we think), how we work with schools and our main influences from psychoanalytic theory and neuroscience.

Here are some of the people and theories we mention, plus any specific books we reference.


Graham Music - Nurturing Children; Respark

Anne Alvarez - e.g. The Thinking Heart

Donald Winnicott - 'good enough'; the squiggle game

Wilfred Bion - container/contained

Melanie Klein - the depressive position; envy

Carl Jung - Dreams

Anna Freud - defence mechanisms

Bruce Perry - founder of The Neurosequential Network

Angela Greenwood - Understanding, Nurturing and Working Effectively with Vulnerable Children in Schools: 'Why Can't You Hear Me'


The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (where Louise did her bereavement training)

Emel's website

The Caspari Foundation (where we trained):


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