Our Service

Our programme helps to make and sustain the changes that are intrinsic to helping children heal.

It is tailored for each family around these core elements:

• Understanding children’s difficulties
• A relevant and flexible parenting plan
• Strategies for new ways of parenting
• Support to put strategies into action
• Confidence in therapeutic parenting
• Reducing conflict and stress
• Putting parents in loving control
• Therapeutic  work to help children trust that parents can meet their needs
• A framework that allows children to feel safe enough to change and manage their lives in healthier ways
• A safe environment for parents to look at difficulties and explore new approaches.

Our approach is based on the principles of PLACE.  Parents need to communicate and interact with their children by being:  

• Playful
• Loving
• Accepting
• Curious
• Empathic

• Reading files to create a detailed child chronology
• Working with parents to understand their children’s daily routine and behaviour   
• Working with key professionals for an integrated approach 
• Working with schools to address educational issues
• Using psychometric assessment tools as needed  

• Assessment of the support and intervention required
• Direct work with parents and children
• Telephone/email/text communication as appropriate
• Intensive, bespoke, integrated parenting and therapeutic intervention including evenings and weekends
• Relational Based Play for children and parents (based on Theraplay® principles).
• Regular feedback to the funding body, including reports and attending meetings
• Training in attachment and trauma for staff groups and/or parents
• Contributing to preparation groups for potential adoptive parents and foster carers
• Advice, strategies and intervention plans for schools, to support children’s learning and development
• Consultations for professional staff
• Supervision by a DDP trained therapist* with the option to include professional staff in sessions
• We are happy to attend meetings to discuss our work

Theraplay® A registered service mark of The Theraplay Institute, Evanston, IL, USA
*Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) treatment model developed by Dr Daniel A Hughes