ABSTRACT
I work as a community child and adolescent psychotherapist for a charity that works with refugees who have survived organised violence and war, and who came to Britain seeking a safe place to live and to make a home (asylum). My work requires me to develop, carry out and support direct therapeutic work with refugee children. These children will all have had direct or indirect experience of violence. We work with the assumption that it is therapeutic for children who have experienced extreme and unusual events that may have been quite overwhelming to communicate their concerns verbally or non-verbally to adults who care for them, and with whom they are able to develop a relationship.
