Fiona Melvin

Psychotherapist

Fiona is a Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Psychotherapist who specialises in working with a wide range of mental health difficulties including trauma, abuse, neglect, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, developmental disorders, low self-esteem, attachment difficulties and other emotional and behavioural difficulties. 

Fiona provides a protected and confidential therapeutic space to carefully observe, explore, and interpret various forms of communication, verbal and non-verbal, conscious and unconscious. In therapy, children and young people can explore their feelings, which enhances understanding, relieves symptoms, and, over time, facilitates change. She offers assessments, brief and long-term psychotherapy to individuals, parent and family work, consultation to the wider professional network, and clinical supervision to professionals, students, and trainee psychotherapists. 

Fiona trained in London at the Tavistock and the BPF (British Psychotherapy Foundation). She works with a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic model, exploring through play, arts and crafts with younger children and through talking with adolescents and young adults up to the age of 25. 

Fiona has 21 years of experience working in NHS child and adolescent mental health in Specialist Services, from adolescent inpatient units to outpatient CAMHS clinics, including hospital settings, and 11 years in private practice, previously in central London, St. Albans, and Hitchin. I also have experience working in Education and Social Services, and teaching as Work Discussion Seminar Leader on the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development at the BPF.