Therapy
A vital component of our child centred package.
Play Therapy
Play therapy and the principles upon which it is based have an integral role in our services for children. Our qualified and BAPT accredited therapists not only offer therapy for children but are also available for consultation with carers and staff.
Play therapy is a valuable, effective means of enabling a child to understand and come to terms with life experiences that are often utterly overwhelming. Play is the natural way for children to learn and communicate, so the therapy is a familiar, non-threatening medium. Play is in itself a healing process. The child has space to play out their feelings and to make sense of their experiences in a safe environment.
Direct Work
Using play, verbal and non-verbal communication and activities, direct work is a task-centred approach addressing specific issues such as identity, self-esteem, particular life experiences, boundaries and personal protection and safety.
Life Story Work
Many children in the carer system have experienced loss and separation from family, friends and significant places. When children lose touch with their roots and lack information about their past, their sense of identity is in jeopardy. Relating to others and forming relationships without a dialogue about your own life then becomes easy to avoid. Life story work is then essential to enable a child to move forward with their lives.
Other therapeutic services
Following an assessment of need we are able, in conjunction with the placing local authority, to commission services from a range of fully accredited specialists to provide a therapeutic approach that the children required. This includes psychology, psychiatry, educational psychology and family and psychodynamic therapy.