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Friday, 27 June, 2008
Rachel Melville-Thomas
Rachel Melville-Thomas is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who has been working with children for around 20 years. She has worked as a therapist with children with all kinds of problems—from school fears to abuse, and has worked extensively with children with special needs—with autism and other disabilities. Rachel has worked with a range of young people from children in care in downtown Philadelphia to teenagers with anorexia at The Priory.
She has been at University College Hospital, London for the last eight years working with traumatised children and their families facing the stress of illness and operations, and other life events. Rachel has trained doctors, nurses and radiographers on how to communicate with children. She made a short film of a child’s experience of radiotherapy “A Child’s Eye View” used in hospitals in the UK and New Zealand. In between doing this she has dropped in to the BBC to be the regular Child Psychology expert for Simon Mayo’s Radio 5 Live show and has also contributed to BBC Radio Birmingham.
Family life has now brought her to Switzerland, where she taxis her two children about, cleans out the guinea pigs and feeds the cat, and every now and then offers consultations to parents and children, including Friday mornings on WRS for Kids in Mind.
