Self Soothing

Gerrilyn Smith is the National CAMHS Consultant for Advanced Child Care. She has worked as a clinical psychologist in child and adolescent mental health services since qualifying in 1978. At the same time as qualifying as a clinical psychologist, she became involved with the London Rape Crisis Centre, working on the telephone counselling line, which she did for many years. Gerrilyn trained as a systemic psychotherapist in the early 1980s and she is EMDR trained and also holds a teaching certificate in Kundalini Yoga. Gerrilyn has also written and published extensively.

Contents include: Why stress management is essential as part of creating and maintaining well being; The impact of trauma and chronic stress on the body and mind; Focus on the breath; Focus on seeing; Focus on the body; Focus on smelling; Focus on hearing; Focus on touching.