My Approach

I offer conversations about the relationships within your family, couple and community and build on your strengths and resources to tackle the difficulties and to help. I aim to be collaborative by working together with you on your goals and by harnessing your strengths. I engage with diversity and difference including gender, race, religion, sexuality and ability. I seek to empower you and boost your confidence and work alongside you to create safe and empowering therapeutic relationships.
I offer private work at a therapy centre in Sheffield and online. I offer face to face work for adults, couples, children and families in Sheffield and surrounding region and I can offer online work nationally and further afield.
I can work with different combinations of individuals, couples and family members according to who would like to participate and your goals. I offer a safe, confidential, accepting and positive space for you to talk and express emotions and explore the individual needs of you all. I understand that not everyone finds talking easy so we can our adapt sessions, for example by using drawing or play. I have formed trusting and supportive relationships with families which they have appreciated.
I offer you a free informal telephone or online conversation to see if we are suited to working together, usually within a week of you contacting me. We can discuss sessions which are most likely to be helpful and which family members/ persons to involve and how often you would like to meet. Currently my waiting time is relatively short. I usually offer sessions for 50 minutes to an hour. We can review our work at agreed intervals with reference to your goals. Therapies I offer with individuals, couples and families include:
Systemic family therapy
Narrative, Solution-Focused, Strengths- based and Collaborative approaches
NVR and parenting interventions and CBT informed therapy.

About Me

Hello, and welcome to my profile. My name is Terry Duffin, a qualified family and couples therapist based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
During my career I have worked extensively with children, families, couples, adults, parents and carers for over 35 years in community, inpatient and outpatient settings. I have experience with the full range of child and adult mental health problems and family relationship problems.
I worked with social care then with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services with the NHS from 1996 until 2023. I work together and in partnership with children, families and couples to find positive ways forward with the difficulties . This involves understanding your family and couple relationships, individual members needs and factors such as traumatic history and autism. I work with mental health difficulties including anxiety, ADHD, autism, depression, self-harm, attachment difficulties, school difficulties, bereavement and eating problems and how these affect children, couples, individuals, adults and their families. Together we can find positive and helpful ways to manage these conditions and family relationship challenges.
Qualifications:
BA Hons 1987
DipSw MA 1993
Practice teaching 2001
MSc Child and family mental health 2010
MA Systemic Psychotherapy 2015

I work with

• Children and young people
• Couples
• Families
• Groups
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
• Family Therapist
• Systemic Family and Couple Psychotherapist
• Systemic Psychotherapist