services

trauma informed support

Our multi-disciplinary team bring a diverse skillset to provide comprehensive, holistic trauma-informed care.

Our approach is cemented in safety, trust, and empowerment, ensuring you feel secure and supported throughout your time with us.

Our team integrate

evidence-based assessments and therapies from across multiple disciplines

including assessments based on the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and therapies rooted in occupational therapy, sensory integration, psychology, and mental health.

With an extensive understanding of how trauma affects brain development, relationships, and daily functioning as well as social, emotional, and physiological wellbeing, the team are able to link behaviour, sensory and attachment strategy to empower you to better understand and support yourself and your family.

Trauma Informed Assessments: FUTURE FAMILIES

For children who are fostered, adopted, are under special guardianship or have experienced any form of trauma.

A trauma-informed assessment aims to deepen our understanding of the child and family’s challenges.

We explore attachment relationships

and the effects of early childhood trauma and the impact on the family as a whole.

We will further explore how these factors influence their attachment framework, social interactions, behaviour, and emotional well-being.

Additionally,

we will evaluate

how trauma has impacted their cognitive, neurodevelopmental, and sensory functions.

specialist assessments

  • Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC)

    is a method of understanding the parent-child relationship, though evaluating the way parents think about their child. It makes use of a semi-structured interview in which parents talk about their child, their relationship with their child, and their parenting, which is then carefully analysed using a manualised system.

  • Marschak Interaction Method (MIM)

    is a structured play and interaction based assessment that evaluates a child's relationship with their caregiver. 

  • Child Attachment Play Assessment (CAPA)

    is a play-based  assessment that explores attachment and complex trauma in children.

  • Parent Interview (PI)

    is a structured conversation with a child's primary caregiver(s), designed to gather detailed information about their childhood experience, their functioning together, and how they will raise their child(ren).

  • School-Aged Assessment of Attachment (SAA)

    a clinical and research tool that identifies children's self-protective strategies, dangers that elicit the strategy, and distortions in information processing that regulate the child's behaviour.

  • Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)

    is a series of questions aimed at understanding a person's childhood experiences with their main caregivers to identify their attachment style.

  • Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview (TAAI)

    is a procedure for assessing older adolescents' and young adults' strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships.

Trauma Informed treatments: Future Families

Trauma-informed treatment approaches focus on understanding how past experiences, especially difficult or overwhelming ones, affect a child’s emotions, behaviour, and development.

These approaches

create a safe, supportive environment where children and their families can build trust, strengthen relationships and regulate emotions.

By addressing the root causes of challenges, trauma-informed treatment approaches help children feel more secure, confident, and connected to those around them.

These pathways are especially effective for

children and young people who are adopted, fostered, under special guardianship or who experienced a challenging start in life.

specialist treatments

  • Sensory Integration Therapy

    Helps children to process, integrate and organise sights, sounds, and other sensory input from their body and the environment so they feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

  • Video Interaction Guidance (VIG)

    Uses short recorded clips of attuned interaction moments between caregivers and their children to show how small changes in their approach can strengthen their bond and understanding of their child.

  • Theraplay

    Fun, guided play activities that help children and caregivers feel closer and more connected.

  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

    A therapy that helps children and parents build trust and talk about feelings in a safe, supportive way.

  • Somatic Experience Therapy (SE)

    SE focuses on the body's physical sensations to help a person process and release trauma, stress and anxiety that the body and mind hold.

  • Neuro-Affective Touch Therapy (NAT)

    NAT uses gentle, intentional touch to support emotional regulation and healing by addressing the connection between the body and emotions. It helps release stored tension and promotes a sense of safety and well-being.

Group Programme

Future Stars

Designed for newly adopted toddlers and their parent(s),

Future Stars aims to promote positive interaction and secure attachments, develop sensory processing, motor skills and emotional regulation, and encourage shared joy and understanding.

Group Programme

YOU Programme

‘YOU’ is a holistic approach aimed at supporting teenagers.

YOU connects the brain and body, introduces mindfulness, explains attachment strategy, supports social and emotional health and relationships, builds resilience, and develops self-esteem.

kind words

“Never underestimate the impact your work has on families like ours.”

“We found that the biggest benefit was being able to spend time together just having fun! We were given a rare opportunity to do something together that has benefitted him hugely in the long run and given us more food for thought into the changes we can make to help keep our boy happy and confident.”

“Our boy has LOVED "Family School". He would tell family and friends all about it and still asks us to go.”

“Thank you for bringing so much joy to our family; we appreciate it so much.”