I bring over 20 years CAMHS clinical experience to help young people and their families/carers find new ways of understanding, communicating and/or supporting each other to recover from significant mental illness, risks and/or emotional distress.
(Claire) Louise Durrant
Systemic Psychotherapist and Supervisor

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Louise Durrant
Louise Durrant is a fully qualified, accredited and insured Systemic Family Psychotherapist and Supervisor with an enhanced DBS clearance. She has worked at Priory Chelmsford since 2017, having previously worked in the NHS as a CAMHS Psychiatric Charge Nurse and later as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist.
Louise is registered with the UKCP and is a member of the College for Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy and the Association of Family Therapy. In 2012 Louise qualified as a Systemic Supervisor providing clinical supervision to other Systemic colleagues, qualified Therapists and HealthCare staff.
Research interests
- MSc research project (2008) – ‘The treatment role of the inpatient Psychiatric Nurse’
- SCORE – Systemic Clinical Outcome & Routine Evaluation (participated in collection of data, 2009)
Clinical articles and research papers
- SCORE – 15 Index Measure of Family Functioning and Change (Carr and Stratton 2017)
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Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anger Management
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Asperger Syndrome
- Attachment Disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Drug Induced Psychosis
- Eating Disorders
- Gender Dysphoria
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance Disorder
- Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Schizophrenia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self Harm
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Stress
- Trichotillomania
- Young People’s Services
Qualifications
- Diploma is preparing Educators and Mentors (2004) – Essex University (Colchester)
- Higher Diploma in Group Facilitation Skills (2004) – Essex University (Colchester)
- MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy (2008) – Birkbeck University, London
- Post-graduate Diploma in Systemic Supervision (2012) – Institute of Family Therapy, London
- RMN Nursing Studies (mental health) (1999) – York University