Dr Lynne Taylor

Dr Taylor is a registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Dr Taylor is qualified and experienced in working with children, adolescents and young adults (0-25 years old), supporting parents and providing supervision and consultation to professionals.  She provides assessment and therapeutic intervention for a range of common concerns, including neurodivergence (ADHD, ASD, AuDHD, dyslexia), low mood, depression, anxiety, gender dysphoria, school refusal and attachment concerns.  She is skilled in working with complex presentations, including developmental trauma (including looked after and adopted children, children and families who are refugees), concerns around self-harm and suicidal thoughts, risky and unsafe behaviour, and chronic and acute behavioural and emotional difficulties. 

Prior to working in private practice, Dr Taylor worked in the NHS for 21 years, including 10 years as a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in CAMHS.  In addition to her clinical work, Dr Taylor was recently Chair of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, which regulates and upholds standards in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in the NHS, private and third sector.  Dr Taylor is also qualified to offer autism assessments (ADOS-2 and ADI) as part of a multidisciplinary team. 

Main Therapeutic Approaches

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (including assessment, consultation work, brief work, parent and child sessions, supporting parents and carers, short-term individual psychotherapy, longer-term psychotherapy and intensive psychotherapy.

Professional Registrations & Memberships

• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP). 
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).