Donnette has previous extensive clinical experience working within the NHS child, adolescent and family mental health service in addition to her work at The Child and Family Practice.

Donnette is a specialist psychotherapist who works with young children, adolescents, young adults and parents. She covers a range of emotional, psychological, behavioural and neurodevelopmental difficulties. Conducting short-term and long-term individual psychanalytic psychotherapy and parent guidance. Donnette consults to schools, colleagues from various professional disciplines, professional organisations such as social services, education and G.Ps.

Donnette has special interests in ethnic diversity and cultural differences which she believes contributes to her understanding of the individual, of parent-infant relationships, of attachment difficulties and the emotional life of the child.

Donnette is a member of the multi-disciplinary team and participates in the assessment and treatment of children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, ADD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. This includes performing complex emotional wellbeing assessments, specialist parent guidance sessions and she helps parents with behavioural management of their children who have been diagnosed with these conditions.

Donnette leads the therapeutic team consisting of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists and Systemic Psychotherapists, allocating cases as clinically appropriate. She also advises and assists colleagues in managing complex situations.

Donnette manages the referral triage process for all the professionals at the practice dealing with young children, adolescents and young adults. She speaks with referrers, both parents and other professionals in order to determine the appropriate pathway/professional to address each referral.

Lesley Maroni trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, after which she took up a highly specialist post in the Family Unit at the Cassel Hospital, assessing and treating parents with their infants and children. This work involved report writing and appearing as an expert witness for the courts.

Lesley has also had extensive experience treating severely disturbed adolescents and young people both in NHS inpatient units and in specialist community child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Her areas of expertise are in working with adolescents with eating disorders; those who self-harm; those at risk of suicide; those who have been physically, emotionally and/or sexually abused and who have recurring flashbacks, as well as seeing children and young people who are suffering from anxiety and depression.

To facilitate the successful treatment of PTSD and dissociation, Lesley has completed the training for EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing); this is a short-term treatment (approx. 7-8 sessions), recommended by NICE, which can be used with children, adolescents and adults.

Lesley has lectured and published widely on a range of mental health issues. Her publications include ‘Understanding your 4-5-year-old’ (Jessica Kingsley – part of the Tavistock Series ‘Understanding your Child’). Her most recent publication is a chapter entitled ‘The language of smell’ in the book ‘Towards Belonging’ (Karnac).

Steph has been working with children and with families since 2005. She has worked as a therapist in various settings, such as a University, in primary and secondary schools, charities for children with Special Needs, a Mediation Centre and in her own practice in Fulham. She enjoys providing 1:1 therapeutic support, family therapy, and has facilitated play-therapy groups. She is an Adult Trainer who co-presents two Separated Parent Programmes in London, one of which she has as co-written and founded.

Her work with children is facilitated by her training in play-therapy. Whilst providing a calm and empathic space for children, teenagers, parents, couples and families, Steph is non directive and follows cues from children‎ and works with all ages. The family sessions are tailored to foster better communication and relationships between children, parents and carers. She likes to increase a person’s self-awareness and self-confidence with various creative mediums. The focus of the sessions can be more on immediate problems, with practical suggestions offered and can be shorter term than psychoanalytic therapy.

Steph is an accredited BACP therapist and has recently specialised in helping families in separation and divorce and writes a monthly blog on related subjects (if interested, please visit: sftherapylondon.com).

Steph has trained in both Integrative and Psychodynamic Therapy. The basis of her work is founded on psychodynamic concepts but values the influences of the humanistic and person centred approaches.

Dr Hayton completed doctoral training at Salomons Clinical Psychology Training Programme in 2005, emphasising family, adult, parent, and child developmental psychology at the Child & Family Department of the NHS Tavistock Clinic where he completed a yearlong specialisation. He works in Hertfordshire, in London, and internationally online. He has contributed to CFP since 2007. He is a Director and co-chairs the Adult Practice group.

A founding member of the Holistic Faculty of the British Psychological Society, Dr Hayton is a skilled and sensitive practitioner in the treatment of psychological stress, difficulty and trauma in individuals of all ages. He uses a broad range of Cognitive and other Psychological and Systemic approaches in brief and longer-term periods of work.  He is a highly-experienced clinical psychologist, having working in leading NHS services for 15 years. In his small private practice at TCFP, his clients are offered the very best quality and value, receiving personally tailored psychological support and care through individualised developmental assessment; advice; therapy, coaching programmes, and/or counselling, for meaningful and lasting growth.

With extensive ‘lifespan development’ and systemic expertise in organisations and with senior leaders, Dr Hayton also offers specialist bespoke coaching, consultation and supervision for coaches, consultants, and consultancies, drawing on further training at the Tavistock Institute and research at Ashridge Executive Education. Dr Hayton was on the faculty of a UK Counselling Psychology professional doctorate for ten years as a senior lecturer leading 3rd year teaching, and supervised or examined 50+ professional doctorate theses (now an honorary appointment). In summary, Dr Hayton has substantial experience of empowering adult development at all levels, across a full range of chronological ages (12+), abilities, and roles, both at TCFP and internationally.