Play and Sensory Stimulation Therapy

13/11/2025

I am aware that I have not posted for a very long time. There was a reason: For over a year, I wrote a book about the meaning of play and why it really matters. It has finally been announced and is available for pre-order. Please have a look:

Can We Play Now? The Meaning of Play Throughout Lifetime Development by Nadja Julia Rolli at Karnac Books

10/08/2023

The countdown is on until the launch of One Tree, Many Branches: The Practice of Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Editors: Bozena Merrick and Di Gammage

One Tree, Many Branches contains twelve inspirational chapters on the practice of integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy in four parts: therapeutic holding, race and cultural identity, neurodivergence and differently wired brains, and systemic issues and working within the system. Subjects discussed include ecopsychotherapy, autism, the lack of male psychotherapists, working with refugees, racial trauma, female ge***al mutilation, working in closed communities, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

The book includes contributions from Audrey Adeyemi, Tasha Bailey, Kelly Brackett, Jamie Butterworth, Alix Hearn, Evania Inward, Irene Mburu, Sasha Morphitis, Magda Raczynska, Nadja Rolli, Zisi Schleider, and Anna Tuttle.

Due to be published in September 2023. To pre-order please click here - https://buff.ly/3Yb2InU

28/06/2023

It was an honour to talk about the identity formation of children and adolescents in a changing world at the Inaugural Seminar of the Child Psychotherapy Council

30/05/2023

It would wonderful to see you at this event, the launch of the Child Psychotherapy Council

Workshops start at 11am. Workshop 1: The Child Psychotherapist in Private Practice Lucy Fuller MA MEd, PgDip Supvn, UKCP Workshop 2: Child Psychotherapy in Outside Spaces Alix Hearn MA Child Psych., PgDip Supvn, UKCP Workshop 3: Child Identity Formation in a Changing World Nadja Rolli MA UKCP, BACP....

26/03/2023

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ghost-children-the-pupils-who-never-came-back-after-lockdown

‘There was this guy in my year who never came back to school after lockdown,’ a 14-year-old girl at a comprehensive in the Midlands says. ‘Then one day my friends and I saw him by the shopping centre. He was, like, sitting on a piece of cardboard by the side of the road, looking a

23/03/2023

Another exciting project and it is coming out in September 2023!
I wrote a chapter about how play is such an important tool in child psychotherapy.
https://firingthemind.com/product/9781800132207/
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Edited collection on integrative child and adolescent psychotherapy covering subjects including ecopsychotherapy, autism, and racial trauma.

05/04/2022

"Worse than the bad things that happened to neglected and abused children are the good things that didn't, the lack of experiences that lead to children becoming lively, curious or in touch with emotions." Graham Music

06/07/2021

Here we go... Hot off the press: My article 'Mentalizing in clinical practice: working with children whose mother is suffering from psychotic symptoms' was published online yesterday in British Journal of Psychotherapy. Either follow this link http://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12655 or contact me directly if you are interested in reading it

This paper considers whether the psychotic illness of a mother impacts on the development of the mentalizing capacity of her offspring and the consequences this may have for clinical practice as a ch...

17/05/2021

I am delighted to share that my manuscript "Mentalizing in clinical practice: working with children whose mother is suffering from psychotic symptoms" is accepted for publication in the British Journal of Psychotherapy and will be published in August this year, BJP vol. 37 no. 3.

22/03/2021

This is so needed. The mental health of so many adolescents, especially female adolescents, has been severely impacted by the covid19 crisis.

Sign our petition calling for an emergency resilience fund to be made available for schools and colleges in England; helping head teachers and college principals access additional funds to pay for essential counselling services.

10/03/2021

Hi all. I’m looking for a professional who can help me with proof-reading/editing an academic paper for publication. Ideally the person is familiar with the psychoanalytical language. Can anyone recommend a service?