Nathalie Krivine

Nathalie qualified as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist at the Tavistock in 2016 She is accredited with UKCP and AFT.

BA HONS Sociology

CQSW Certificate of Social Work

Practice Teachers Qualification in Social Work

Masters in Criminology

Master in Systemic Psychotherapy

Experience:

Prior to working as a family therapist Nathalie has had extensive experience working both as a probation officer and social worker within diverse and deprived communities with high social need. As a social worker she has worked in fostering, she has developed a specialist knowledge in working with adolescents on the threshold of care or custody. Since qualifying as a family therapist, she consolidated her professional experience working for many years in mental health provision, integrated within a social care pathway. This has included working in a multidisciplinary team as a therapist within social care with gang affiliated young people and those at risk of child sexual exploitation. Nathalie therapeutically works with adoptive families where there is a risk of family breakdown.

Approach:

Nathalie offers a safe therapeutic space for families who are struggling with communicating with each other. Nathalie is aware that often people come to her for help when in crisis and the communication with those we are connected to has become too toxic. Nathalie notes that difficulties in speaking openly with those we are connected to is a common theme within families and can often have an impact on individuals lives outside of the family within school and the work environment. Equally it can impact on respective family members mental health resulting in anxiety and depression, if left unresolved. Nathalie has worked extensively with families who find themselves in a process of change that they cannot cope with. This can be linked to predictable transitions for children and families finding it difficult to cope with adolescence, or unpredictable change such as illness or loss.

Nathalie is informed within her practice by a relational trauma informed approach, this is a relational framework where the therapeutic process focuses on thinking together with the respective family members at how past relationships and experiences can be enacted in current relationships culminating in unhelpful and conflictual disconnected communication.

Nathalie subsequently uses a relational attachment phased approach where individual therapeutic sessions are followed up by joined family sessions which gives everyone the chance to feel heard and fosters trust, enabling the opportunity for open and safe communication to begin. This approach affords the opportunity for safer less conflictual connected conversations to take place.

Individual work:

Nathalie also has successfully used a relational attachment approach to work with individuals, both adults and young people. This has proved beneficial when a person wants their own unique space to reflect on past and present relationships, in terms of the meanings they take from these dynamics. Such a process can be key in individuals wanting a relational lens to help them address issues of low self esteem and abandonment as part of their emotional and personal development. It also affords people in a process of bereavement to think about absent voices, and to consolidate feelings regarding closure.

She has also worked in CAMHS (Children and Adolescents Mental Health Services in the NHS) with children as young as 5 years old.

Nathalie has equally found that the therapeutic individual space has been key for teenagers to reflect about their sense of self and their cultural identity. Through cultural genogram and life script work, and narrative intervention, the individual therapeutic space can be key to helping a person feel clearer about the conflicted feelings that can arise for them on this journey of self-discovery.

She has experience of working systemically with autism as this approach can be extremely helpful in supporting families and relatives as well as the client.

Work with Couples:

Nathalie works with couples is informed by emotion focused therapy, tracking emotionally with the couple the barriers in communication. This involves looking at the respective attachment style that each person brings to the relationship. Within the reflective therapeutic space, themes around separation, and life events such as bereavement, and job loss and infertility, are looked at in terms of the triggers, which may be contributing to the difficult communication pattern for the couple.

Nathalie is aware from her experience of working with couples that some couples experiencing adversity around separation attachment issues from their own childhood can struggle at times of adversity, and can find that the emotional attunement is lacking and communication becomes polarised. Nathalie offers a safe therapeutic space for the couple to move forward and to consider the triggers, and how they want to move forward in thinking about verbal and none verbal communication styles.

The Attachment Family Therapy Approach for Nathalie has been influenced by the following:

Attachment Based family therapy
Emotion focused Therapy
Solution Focused Therapy
Functional family Therapy
Structural Family Therapy
Dyadic Developmental therapy
Narrative Therapy

Nathalie has experience of using CBT which she integrates in her work when appropriate. She also uses emotional regulation interventions such as mindfulness. Finally, she also uses play therapy with children as needed.

Types of Issues that are worked with: