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Adoption, Fostering & SGO

Our Psychologists are highly trained and experienced in working with adoptive, fostered and kinship young people, families and carers who may be presenting with a range of psychological difficulties due to developmental trauma. We offer free, fifteen-minute phone consultations to yourself and or your Social Worker to explore how we can best support. We will work collaboratively to establish a tailored therapeutic proposal in line with this.

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We feel it is important to work in a flexible way often drawing on a multi-modal approach, of individual and family work, alongside parenting sessions where appropriate.

Theraplay & DDP Intervention
What We Can Help With

  • Supporting the attachment relationship between child(ren) and parent(s)/carer(s)
     

  • Trauma, loss and grief
     

  • Relational challenges both within adult, sibling and peer relationships
     

  • Sleep, eating, toileting
     

  • Transitions from foster care to adoptive family, and between school placements (including from nursery to school)
     

  • Emotion regulation and behaviour that challenges
     

  • Supporting understanding around life story
     

  • School based challenges, e.g. school refusal and exclusions  
     

  • Families feeling at crisis or at risk of breakdown 

Therapeutic Models Offered

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  • Developmental and therapeutic parenting 
     

  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) 
     

  • Theraplay 
     

  • Therapeutic Life Story Work 
     

  • Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR)
     

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
     

  • Narrative therapy 
     

  • Consultation to the system around the family and child

Theraplay & DDP Intervention
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