Dr Milburn is trained to help children, adolescents, families and adults develop skills and insights for managing difficult emotions and challenging life transitions. The goal is to foster growth and insight for healthy psychological development.

 

It can be  anxiety provoking to think about sharing personal details of one's life with someone you don’t know whether you are a child, family, or adult.  In Dr Milburn's experience, when a respectful and collaborative approach is adopted through a shared dialogue, this discomfort is more manageable.

 

There are many reasons for seeking treatment including depression, anxiety, a personal crisis, the loss of a loved one, to name a few. Sometimes people come to treatment to sort out a very specific problem or the desire to stop repeating self-defeating patterns of behavior.

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Psychotherapy outcome research consistently points to the quality of the relationship between a psychotherapist and patient being the most important factor facilitating change. Thus, the foundation of Dr Milburn's therapeutic approach relies on establishing a trusting relationship within the therapeutic encounter whether it is by talking or through play, creating a safe space for personal exploration and change.

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Dr Milburn will work collaboratively with you to help recognise and use your own strengths, resources, and knowledge to bring about change. As work progresses, the aims of the therapy will be reviewed

frequently, thus making each step of therapy open and sensitive to your needs.

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                 Therapeutic interventions to help children, young people, families and adults

The practice provides specialist assessments and evidence-based treatments for a variety of concerns

such as:

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•  Self-esteem difficulties

•  Anxiety problems, phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder

•  Low mood, sadness and depression

•  Aggression and behavioural problems (ADHD, conduct & oppositional)

•  Insecure attachment, bonding diffculties between infant and parent

•  School-related difficulties, school refusal, underachieving,friendship and social difficulties

•  Developmental problems (autistic spectrum disorder and learning difficulties)

•  Bereavement and loss including coping with parental separation & family relationship conflict

•  Post-traumatic stress and complex trauma (experiences of sexual abuse and neglect)

•  Deliberate self-harm

•  Eating disorders

•  Therapeutic support for ‘looked after’ and/or adopted children

• Psychological aspects of health and well-being linked pain and pain management

• Psychological aspects of health and well-being linked to medical diagnosis (i.e., diabetes, irritable bowel and chronic fatigue syndrome

                                   

                                         Therapeutic support for parents and carers
Dr Milburn's aim is to provide parents and carers with the skills and techniques, underpinned by the most up to date evidence-based therapeutic interventions, to help troubled children, young people and families recover and thrive. He provides practical guidance and therapeutic support to parents and carers on the above issues, as well as the following:

• Practical guidance on managing sleep, eating, crying and emotional tantrums in toddlers and young children
• Psychological guidance on understanding and managing attachment difficulties and distress in the family
• Family and couple relationship difficulties, changing family structures
• Parental mental health difficulties and their impact on children and families

 

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