Orchard Therapies - committed to improving peoples’ lives

Our community of Mental Health Professionals provide a wide range of therapies to help you overcome adversity, grow resilience and alleviate distressing symptoms. We help you develop the best ways to understand and manage your, symptoms, personal crisis, emotional problems and development needs.

Our therapists are trained, qualified, registered and experienced and have been carefully selected to provide evidence-based, and practice- based therapies. The growth in our community of therapists and clients is testimony to the quality of our therapies and our efforts to provide an outstanding service.

Orchard therapies relaunched in August 2020 as a new business and emerged out of planned changes in the previous Company hosted within the Orchard site in Horsforth in Leeds offering a therapy service to the region for over 20 years.

Orchard Therapies is now hosted within a clinic base in Chapel Allerton, Yorkshire and Derry City N. Ireland. We also provide online consultations internationally via zoom.

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About Caroline Owens

Having trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Institute in London, I have since worked as a Consultant Child Psychotherapist and Head of Department in Wakefield CAMHS.

During my appointment I approached the regional NHS Commissioning Lead with a view to secure funding for training of child psychotherapy for Northern trainees.

The result of this was that 5 years later we founded the Northern NHS training school Of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (NSCAP) where I was appointed as a founding Director and senior tutor.

Following this I had 15 years as Head of Child and adolescent Psychotherapy at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. My stepping down from this post was followed by my taking up my role as Executive Director/ Clinical Director at the Private and long-established Orchard Therapy Centre, where I also worked as an adult psychotherapist.

In August of 2020, I branched out from the previous Company, where I was Executive Director for 7 years, and formed ‘Orchard Therapies’ – just as the Covid pandemic was taking a firm hold on our lives.

Caroline recently published a book that is available on Amazon. Find out more here

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Adrienne Crew

Adrienne specialises in counselling and therapy for loss and grief, relationship and family problems coping with change, lack of direction or purpose, problems at work and low self esteem.

Her experience and training has equipped her to work with individuals and couples to help them develop a real understanding of their issues, a place where they can discuss their worries and fears and to enable them to explore their options.

Adrienne uses a range of modalities including Transactional analysis, Psychodynamics, Cognitive behavioural therapy, Couple/Relationship Counselling.

She has a University Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy which is accredited by the BACP.

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Carla Forth

Carla specialises in Sophrology. This is a mind-body practice that can help with many therapeutic issues including anxiety, depression, and insomnia. It is easy to learn and uses and combines simple dynamic tension release, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, mindfulness, visualisation, and sound. Sophrology can be offered as a stand alone therapy and it can also be hugely beneficial when practised alongside psychotherapy or counselling, empowering the person to safely feel embodied, and have the tools and resources to improve their levels of wellbeing.

Sophrology can also be used to help prepare for future events such as pregnancy and labour, interviews, exams, public speaking, sports competitions, preparing for surgery or other medical procedures, helping people to feel prepared and confident about facing a future event and their life.

Carla has a Diploma in Sophrology, has been working as a Sophrologist for over ten years and is a full member of the International Sophrology Federation. She specialises in stress and anxiety management, depression, and sleep issues, and also in helping people with food related issues: eating disorders, disordered eating and those needing to be on a medicinal diet. She is the founder of ‘Women, Food & Freedom’ – a programme to help women find freedom in their relationship with food.

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