I specialise in providing therapeutic support services for children who experience emotional difficulties which are expressed through challenging behaviours. I have over 20 years experience working with children who are looked after or adopted, those involved in youth offending and those with difficult family situations.

Carers can often feel frustrated when everyday good parenting or teaching strategies don't work with some children but this is often because the children we care for don't have the same secure foundation on which to build.

​ I offer a different approach based on re-wiring the brain and physiology for a different experience.

 aTTACHMENT and trauma based research and training

Therapeutic parenting enables carers to develop a deep level of empathetic responding and understanding. Carers are introduced to practical ways to help a child to keep their thinking brains switched on and gain access to emotional co-regulation leading to self regulation skills. Carers are shown how attachment and developmental trauma have affected the way their children see the world and how their brains and physiology have changed to cope with their early life trauma.
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Through this approach carers are able to reach a greater depth of understanding and empathy. They will have a good understanding of what strategies to apply to what situation and will feel much more confident that what they are doing is working. This will also help to reduce compassion fatigue and burn out.