Teaching
Alongside my clinical practice, I lecture and contribute to professional training in systemic and family psychotherapy. My teaching is informed by both theory and clinical practice, with a particularly interest in supporting practitioners to think critically about relationships, power, culture, and context.
I bring a reflective, dialogical style to teaching, creating learning spaces that value curiosity, multiple perspectives, and the integration of personal and professional experience. I have taught and supported trainees across different stages of professional development, encouraging thoughtful, ethical, and relational practice.
I am a Senior Lecturer and supervisor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, contributing to the qualifying training in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy. I am also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at University College London on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Since 2009 I have worked as a visiting lecturer at Master's and Doctoral level across a range of institutions, including UCL, the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London), the Institute of Family Therapy, Royal Holloway University of London and the Anna Freud).
Teaching topics
I regularly deliver teaching and training sessions (primarily independently, and occasionally in collaboration with colleagues) on the following topics:
- Systemic family perspective on child development and wellbeing
- Systemic family intervention work
- Working Systemically with Children
- Stories and journaling impact on children's development and
wellbeing
- Working with parents in conflict
- Working Systemically with Trauma
- Systemic perspective on child psychopathology
- Working with families who have experienced adoption
- Introduction to Systemic Theory, assessments and treatments
- Working Systemically with siblings
- Unaddressed trauma in adults, impact on parenting
- Systemic Seminars, Theory group discussions and research seminars.
Supervision
I offer systemic supervision to therapists and practitioners working with individuals, couples, and families. My supervisory approach is collaborative and reflective, attending to both clinical work and the wider organisational, cultural, and relational systems within which practitioners work.
In supervision, I aim to:
Support thoughtful and ethical clinical decision-making
Develop systemic thinking, reflexivity, and professional curiosity
Attend to issues of power, difference, identity and social context
Create a safe space for uncertainty, learning, and professional development
My supervisory practice is informed by systemic and relational theory, alongside social justice–oriented perspectives. It is shaped by ongoing training, supervision, and reflective practice, supporting practitioners and clinicians to work in ways that are ethical, thoughtful, and contextually responsive.
Publications
Nascimento, N. (2026) ‘Children’s, interpreters’, and group members’ voices and positioning in multilingual multi-family groups and family therapy’, in Tribe, R., Thompson, K. and Raval, H. (eds.) Working with interpreters in mental health. London: Routledge.
Nascimento, N. (2022) ‘Racism in Psychology: Challenging Theory, Practice and Institutions by Craig Newnes (ed.)’, Journal of Family Therapy, 44, pp. 188–190. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12376
Nascimento, N. (2021) Group cohesion in multi-family therapy with multilingual families. Doctoral dissertation. Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Available at: https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/2713/1/Nascimento%20-%20Group.pdf
Stratton, P., Silver, E., Nascimento, N., McDonnell, L., Powell, G. and Nowotny, E. (2015) ‘Couple and family therapy outcome research in the previous decade: What does the evidence tell us?’, Contemporary Family Therapy, 37(1), pp. 1–12.
Stratton, P., Silver, E., Nascimento, N., Powell, G., McDonnell, L. and Nowotny, E. (2011) Review of family, couples and systemic therapy outcome research 2000–2009 (Funded by AFT and UKCP). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/3767685/Review_of_family_couples_and_systemic_therapy_outcome_research_2000_2009