About Dr. Cherrie Ravello

Dr. Cherrie Ravello, trained as a psychiatric nurse in the University of Hertfordshire program and at KCC Foundation and University of Bedfordshire for her other qualifications. She is a UKCP registered Family Therapist with her own private practice and seventeen years of family, couple and individual psychotherapy therapy. She is also currently a Systemic Psychotherapist and working in a community CAMHS team in an NHS organisation.

Dr. Ravello has extensive experience (24 years) in supervising and mentoring psychiatric nurses, also in consulting with managers and teachers in a variety of circumstances and settings, including secure services, acute adult mental health services, and specialized mental health services and infant, primary and secondary schools.

What We Do

We provide specialist systemic family therapy, individual therapy, couple therapy and therapy for young people who noticed that their behaviour or emotions are unpredictable, things are not making sense or that no one understands them or it could be that the young person is not sleeping well/properly, loss their appetite or feeling anxious.

For many years we have worked with helping young people who have similar feelings or who are in a similar situation to overcome their worries, troubles and fears.

Bad feelings and difficult situations can affect anyone, both adults and young people. They can make you feel sad and worried, angry, upset and stressed. Life can then become tough for a while, however learning how to cope are skills that we all need to develop or be able to access, which will help us to feel better and make a positive difference to us and those close to us.

We have a number of years' experience of working with a variety of concerns. Some of our experiences are in adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health issues for example ADHD, ASD, behaviour difficulties, struggles with being at school, difficulties with forming and sustaining friendships, body image, eating disorders, psychoses and depression. In an adult context we have experience of working with all adult mental health concerns for example post natal depression, puerperal psychoses and other post natal mental health concerns.

The style of therapy and the approach is call systemic. This approach involves exploring connections, networks of relationships and communication patterns between a person, couple or family, the people significant to them at any given time and the ideas and beliefs each of them holds which gives meaning to their lives and behaviours.

We work with family groups and partnerships that may be constructed in any number of ways to include the people that are important to you.

Also, we offer Management and Clinical Supervision to individuals and to groups, as well as Mentorship and Coaching. We offer consultations to schools teachers, teaching assistants, school SENCO and other school staff where we work closely with them to gain a better understanding of how to work with children with difficulties in the schools.

The Assessment Process

Your initial session will last for one hour and a half. Further sessions times lasts for one hour at each session and is usually every two or three weeks. You may decide that you want to come for only one session or you may decide that you would want a number of sessions.

You may decide to come and see me on your own and we might talk about who else you think should come to a session with you.

We will be requesting your permission to discuss the sessions we have with you with my supervisor. The process and content of the sessions will be discussed with my/our supervisor/s. The reasons for this discussion will be to enrich our ideas of how we may be able to help and support you through your difficulties. It is also mandatory and ethical that we receive supervision on sessions conducted.

Your identity will remain confidential and will only be shared with the professionals involved in your care after conversations with you about what needs to be shared.