Psychotherapy in Sheffield Jeanette Caw M.A. M.S.C.   UKCP Registered Psychotherapist   Tel: 07954583576

About Me

My interest in psychotherapy began in 1992 during a yearlong trip to India. Whilst there, I became intrigued by the connections between western philosophy/ spirituality and eastern mysticism and the wisdom they offered. On my return from India, I trained as a social worker and worked as a children and families social worker for four years. I moved from there to work as a psychotherapist in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team, again for four years. In 2003 I moved to work for an independent fostering agency, known then as Foster Care Associates, managing a regional therapy team. The therapy team supported foster carers to be therapeutic in their approach, so that they could care for children and young people with an awareness of the impact of complex trauma on them and their wellbeing across every domain of their lives. In 2009 I was promoted to be the Head of Therapy for Core Assets, a UK wide and international social care agency. I wrote a book describing the therapeutic approach used within foster placements as well as working on a number of therapeutic projects, for example, heading up a Domestic Violent Perpetrator Programme, which ran men’s groups and a women’s support service.

In 2013 I left Core Assets and joined a charity called Rethink Mental Illness as their Assistant Director for Psychological Therapies. This role entailed the strategic management of their five IAPT services. Following this, I spent a brief period of time as the Operations Manager for a social care organisation called Progressive Care and embarked on writing professional qualifications at diploma and foundation degree level in Therapeutic Fostering for Core Assets.

In 2015, I decided to return to clinical practice and worked at Riverdale Specialist Eating Disorders Hospital, offering family and/or couples therapy to patients and their parents/families/partners as appropriate to support with recovery from eating disorders. 

Since March 2022, I have been employed as the Clinical Lead for the NHS Sheffield Relationship & Sexual Service, Sheffield Health & Social Care Trust (SHSC).

I also run a private practice which is described in this website.

I am an experienced psychotherapist and have been registered with the UKCP since 2001. I initially trained as a Gestalt Psychotherapist, going on to complete a post-graduate diploma in systemic practice in 2003. In 2019 I completed the MSc in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy at Leeds University and am now a qualified Systemic and Family Psychotherapist. I have also been taught to use cognitive behavioural methods and attended a 3-day training course in CBT and a 2-day CBT course for working with Generalised Anxiety. I use a range of approaches and techniques in my work, continually assessing which is likely to be most beneficial for each person with the difficulties they are facing. I recently completed a Professional Certificate in Psychosexual Therapy (2022). I am also a qualified Integrative Supervisor and offer supervision for psychotherapists and counsellors, either individually or in groups.