Nikki Linfield Author

Nikki Linfield trained initially as a primary school teacher and then a youth worker while training to be an Art Psychotherapist. While working as an Art Psychotherapist at CAMHS she undertook additional training in Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP). Through this training her interest in working dyadically grew and she undertook her DDP practicum.

Nikki developed a greater understanding of how her individual practice at CAMHS as an Art Therapist was missing a link to the child’s key attachment figure and losing a potential for change and co-regulation.

DDP is an attachment-based therapy developed by Dan Hughes.

Nikki has looked at the dyadic training that is being offered now through BAAT and wanted to share some of her experiences of blending DDP into her Art Therapy. Nikki’s shared this in her work with adopted families where a child has experienced early childhood trauma and significant disrupted attachments. In this work, she used story writing to work with jealousy.