therapeutic Life Story Work
Bridging the gap between what behaviours are seen - and what thoughts, feelings and needs are behind the behaviours - is such a vital part of the process, we feel it needs mentioning right from the start!
Our warm, playful, collaborative and developmental-trauma-informed practitioners will work with the child, and the system around the child, where a better understanding of their complex needs will help to inform sustainable and ethical parenting and teaching.
Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW) takes the form of revealing, contextualising and processing known and unknown facts/opinions that have been gathered by several sources of insight, about a young person's history.
TLSW reduces shame/self-blame and brings about a sense of positive identity. The TLSW process creates the potential for healing conversations between carers and a young person through greater understanding about the past.
TLSW sessions generally occur bi-weekly, lasting about an hour, and take place with carers and key workers present. At the end of the process a crafted book is presented to the young person with a record of the known facts – as well as their opinions/feelings. The book is intended to be shared with future carers as a way of honouring the young person's unique journey.
Separate consultation with carers can also support trauma resolution and therapeutic parenting strategies.
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We have developed an exciting service that also helps children and young people with Neurodiversity. We offer Assessments for ASD, ADD, ADHD. In addition to therapeutic, creative person-centred sessions, we provide Developmental Trauma-focused Training for parents and other professionals - so that they can improve their skills of stewarding children's development... to know when to raise expectations and hold boundaries, and when to 'soothe'. This means that the child is given system-wide support to come to terms with how their Learning disability or difference impacts them and others, how they feel about themselves and the world, what support they can rely on, and what aspects of their growth they can take leadership over.
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