My Approach

I am a registered and supervised systemic family psychotherapist, having been awarded an MA in systemic Practice and Family Therapy by the University of Northumbria in 2006. I am also a Registered Mental health Nurse (RMN) having qualified and registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in 1990. As a trauma-informed practitioner, I prioritise considering the safety (physical and emotional), and I champion ensuring my trustworthiness as a therapist, and seek to maintain choice, collaboration, to the empowerment of my clients. I use o variety of approached, methods and techniques to help challenged young people and families develop new perspectives and viewpoints for the difficulties they face. I am known for my use of humour as a "bridge" to engage young people and families, but I at all times maintain a respectful, collaborative and diligent position with clients. My aim is always to be the therapist the young person and their family needs at that moment by flexibly positioning myself in response to the themes that emerge in therapy.

About Me

My name is David Jenkinson. I am a veteran of child and adolescent mental health services and systemic family psychotherapy ("Family Therapy"), having started working in the filed in the 1990s. This means I have a wealth of experience of a huge range of the factors that interfere with the well-being of children and young people. My main duties are full-time in the NHS in Scotland, working with young people and their families who are the most severely affected by a range of serious, enduring and complex presentations. I am fortunate that lengthy experience has not left me jaded and burnt out; instead I enthusiastically embrace new developments, idea's, perspectives and viewpoints as I join with young people and their families to create new ways of understanding the challenging situations that affect them.

I work with

• Children and young people
• Families

Types of Therapies Offered

• Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
• Family Therapist
• Systemic Family and Couple Psychotherapist
• Systemic Psychotherapist