About Open Door
Open Door, Young People’s Consultation Service was founded in 1976 and registered as charity number 299707 in 1988. Since that time a team of psychotherapists and counsellors have worked from a centre in Crouch End, Haringey, offering young people an opportunity to explore their anxieties and difficulties in safe and confidential surroundings.
Each year we see around 250 young people, we provide an inclusive service for young people and parents from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities.
We operate recognised programmes of evaluation to test the services we provide for effectiveness and to assist in identifying the difficulties young people and parents are experiencing. These evaluation programmes have now run for a sufficient period of time to enable us to use the data to draw conclusions and identify areas for further service development.
A range of service options are offered:
- A brief therapy service, consisting of six once weekly sessions. This is targeted at young people (14-24) in crisis or at risk who have not had previous counselling or psychotherapy. This 6 session model provides enough support for some young people; others decide, during the course of six appointments, that they would like further help.
- A brief therapy service for younger teenagers (aged 12-14) who are referred by their parent/s. We suggest that the young person initially attends an appointment with their parent/s; after that the young person meets on their own with the therapist for 4 appointments. The sixth and final appointment is usually offered again to the young person with their parent/s.
- The longer-term service provides individual weekly psychotherapy or counselling, usually for a maximum of two years.
- From January 2006 we are piloting a project that provides time limited psychotherapy, for a set number of sessions, to young people whom we think this could help and who agree that they would like to try this option.
- For further information about Open Door’s Parenting Teenagers Project (PTP) for parents of young people aged 12-21 click here.
The professional team at Open Door (September 2009) are:
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists
Julia Britton
Geraldine Crehan
Philip McGill (Child Psychotherapist in training, from September 2006)
Louise Phillips
David Trevatt
Adult Psychotherapists
Madeleine Barnett
Gita Patel
All Open Door psychotherapists are qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists, or Adult Psychotherapists, or are currently in funded NHS training placments and are registered with relevant professional bodies e.g. UKCP (www.ukcp.org.uk), BCP (www.bcp.org.uk), ACP (www.acp.uk.net).
