I am experienced in general child and adolescent mental health, specialising in anxiety and depression, self-harm, Asperger’s/ASD1, attachment difficulties, complex bereavement and loss, developmental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive behaviours (OCD), gender issues and identity searches.
Oenone Thomas
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist / Adult Psychotherapist
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Oenone Thomas
Oenone Thomas is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Adult Psychotherapist. Oenone has recently joined the team at Priory Hospital Ticehurst House, having worked extensively in both the private and public sectors.
Oenone offers specialist therapy for children, adolescents and young people, and is also experienced in working with adults and couples.
Oenone also works with parents and infants, to help build attachment bonds; she offers filial play for parents and young children and provides therapy through play with children over the age of 5. She also ensures creative or talking therapies are tailored to the specific needs of older children and adolescents.
Position at Priory
UKCP and BACP Registered and Accredited Psychotherapist – joined the team in December 2018
Training
- Masters Degree in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Terapia, London
- Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Wealden Institute, Crowborough, East Sussex
Research interests
- Recovery from trauma through play and creative expression
- Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in later life
- ASD in women and girls
Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Alcohol Rehabilitation
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Attack Treatment
- Asperger Syndrome
- Attachment Disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD
- Autism
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders
- Bereavement
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Gender Dysphoria
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
- Mental Health Treatment
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance Disorder
- Perinatal Depression
- Personality Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Selective Mutism
- Self Harm
- Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
- Stress
- Trichotillomania
- Young People’s Services
Qualifications
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Accredited and Registered Member
- Certificate in Couples Counselling
- Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Master’s degree in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Counselling
- United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, Registered Member
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