About
Systemic and family psychotherapy at Priory Hospital Bristol is now available for private outpatients. Whether it’s a relationship breakdown, a family with children navigating difficult times, a family needing support with a loved one’s recovery, or a family with social care involvement, then systemic and family therapy would be an avenue to consider.
Dayton has specialised experience in providing systemic and family psychotherapy as part of care and treatment for recovery from eating disorders, addictions, and general mental health, and welcomes a diverse range of families. Interpreters can be made available upon request.
Sessions are reserved for private outpatients although, on occasion, there will also be sessions available for private and NHS inpatients. Please enquire with Priory Hospital Bristol about session availability and to learn about the in-person and remote options available.
Position at Priory
Dayton has been with Priory since 2018. He started at Priory Hospital Roehampton in South-West London, where he worked across the eating disorder and private and NHS child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) inpatient services. With more than a decade’s experience across the UK and the USA, he has focused specialisms in systemic family psychotherapy across a range of clinical settings, from general mental health, to addictions, to eating disorders and the treatment of severe anorexia nervosa. Dayton is presently working as a senior systemic family psychotherapist within the adult inpatient eating disorder service at Priory Hospital Bristol. He also sees private outpatient families in face-to-face and remote sessions. He leads the Priory Hospital Bristol carer groups, provides multidisciplinary team (MDT) systemic consultations within the inpatient ward rounds, and leads the systemic formulations and dynamics group for the specialist eating disorder unit (SEDU) clinical teams.
Dayton is a senior systemic and family psychotherapist, registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Association for Family Therapists (AFT). He completed an MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy at the Institute of Family Therapy in London with First Class Distinction and an MA at Appalachian State University with a concentration in Marriage and Family Counselling and a certificate in Addictions Counselling.
Dayton is passionately committed to providing an inclusive and non-discriminatory service to everyone regardless of age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religious beliefs, disability or health status. He is continually working to make his practice inclusive and if there are any access needs that have not already been considered, he will do his best to meet those needs.
Training
- UKCP | Systemic Family Psychotherapist | UK
- British Institute for Human Rights | Human Rights Practice Lead | UK
- Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa | Kings College Hospital and The Maudsley Foundation Trust | UK
- Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Training | The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders | UK
- Skills Based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder | The New Maudsley Method | UK
- Systemic Management and Leadership | Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice | UK
- MSc Systemic Family Psychotherapy | Institute of Family Therapy | 2022
- Dissertation | Systemic Family Psychotherapists’ Experience of Systemic Practice and Family Therapy Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Inpatient and Residential Treatment of Severe Anorexia Nervosa Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis | First Class Distinction | USA
- MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling | Appalachian State University | 2012
- Marriage and Family Counseling Concentration | Addictions Counseling Certification | USA
- BA Psychology | University of North Carolina at Asheville 2009 | USA
Research Interests
- MSc Dissertation – Systemic Family Psychotherapists’ Experience of Systemic Practice and Family Therapy Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Inpatient and Residential Treatment of Severe Anorexia Nervosa | Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis | First Class Distinction