Fiona Herbert is a Couples and Family Systemic Psychotherapist and Social Worker with 25 years of experience in the health and social care sector.

She has worked extensively in local authority and health settings, residential care, public and international schools with 10 years’ experience in private practice.

Fiona currently works part-time as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist in an NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and in private practice.

Fiona’s qualifications include Master’s degrees in Social Work and Marriage and Family Therapy as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Systemic Psychotherapy. She is also a Doctoral student in Psychotherapy focusing on the use of Family Therapy interventions with Autistic patients.

Fiona provides individual, couple and family therapy to adults, adolescents and children above the age of 8 challenged by a variety of issues.

This may include but is not limited to parenting, relationships, behavioural issues, substance abuse, depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, loss, trauma and educational issues.

Fiona enjoys using an integrated strengths-based approach that is family-based and systemically applied to enable a holistic understanding of the issues. She uses a wide range of therapeutic modalities but is particularly interested in solution-focused, narrative, expressive, ACT and experiential therapies. Fiona is trained in EMDR, Gottman method couples therapy, and emotion-focused couples therapy.

In Fiona’s free time, she loves spending time with her family, friends and playing any sport she can!