Marsha Henderson

About me

Dr Marsha Henderson is a Chartered and Registered Counselling Psychologist, as well as Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

She has gained extensive experience working with children, young people, and adults in the third sector, psychiatric wards (acute, psychiatric intensive care unit, forensic) and young people’s residential settings.

Dr Henderson's major practical focus is on traumatic events, adverse circumstances their sequelae.

These often take the form of developmental and attachment trauma, and multi-maltreatment in childhood, and domestic and sexual violence in adulthood.

She has practiced with individuals experiencing psychotic symptoms, symptomology attracting diagnoses of (emerging) personality disorders, learning disabilities, neurodiversities, and developmental psychopathologies. Dr Henderson works from an integrative psychotherapeutic approach, intentionally using intervention techniques from evidence-based based modalities according to unique need.

These approaches include psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (particularly informed by the trauma-focused approach), dyadic developmental psychotherapy, play and creative arts therapy, and dialectic behavioural therapy.

Dr Henderson is able to draw on professional experience to support networks around young people to deliver indirect therapy – therapeutic parenting – paramount element of psychological care for many children.

She also offers AIM3 assessment and intervention. Throughout her practice, Dr Henderson has upheld her recognition of the significant impact which culture, society, and family have on the individual’s mental health.

In particular, she has sought to draw out the different strengths and needs of individuals with respect to the diverse groups they belong to, in order to promote their well-being, help them make informed choices, about their own care and treatment, and take back power in their own lives.

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