Therapeutic Services

Emotional health and well-being are essential to empower children and young people to maximise their potential in life.

Our Therapeutic Service delivers a range of support to promote the emotional resilience and well-being of your vulnerable pupils. Therapy can be tailored to meet a variety of needs and concerns, with the integration of different approaches to maximise outcomes for the child/young person.

Our experienced and highly qualified counsellors and therapists can work with individuals or with small groups of identified young people if this is appropriate to their needs. They use a range of interventions to work with pupils who experience complex emotional and behavioural issues. Their approach encourages pupils to explore feelings and emotions in a safe environment. These can relate to life events and trauma, beliefs about self, diagnosed conditions (e.g. ASD, ADHD) and physical and mental health.

We offer a choice of integrative counselling and creative art therapies.

Integrative counselling is a combined approach to psychotherapy that brings together different elements of specific therapies. Integrative therapists take the view that there is no single approach that can treat each young person in all situations. Each young person needs to be considered as a whole and counselling techniques must be tailored to their individual needs in a ‘person-centred’ approach. Therapists take a non-judgemental and non-directive approach in every session and use a range of techniques from talking, play, art and role play to interact with young people to enable them to reach their potential.

  • All our counsellors and therapists have undergone a rigorous recruitment and selection process with DBS checks to ensure that they have the appropriate knowledge, skills and personal qualities to deliver the service professionally and safely
  • Our therapists work within the Health and Care Professionals Council’s standards of conduct and are members of relevant professional associations, including: British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT), British Association of Drama Therapists (BADth) and Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapists (ADMP)
  • The creative arts therapies group is made up of therapists from the four separate professions of art, dance-movement, drama, and music. They share a strong common feature in that all arts therapists are dual trained, in both their specified art form and in psychological therapy
  • As part of our quality assurance all our counsellors receive monthly supervisions with an advanced counsellor registered with British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Why choose us?

Our service can help support a number of positive outcomes for children and young people, including:

  • supporting pupils to self-regulate and manage inappropriate and challenging behaviour
  • increasing pupil’s mental health and well-being, as well as helping develop their emotional resilience
  • helping to address emotional barriers to learning to help improve pupil engagement and outcomes
  • improving relationships with peers and adults.

Testimonial

Headteacher
Bailey’s Court Primary

It is wonderful to have the facility to be able to purchase this service from a trusted source. The sessions made considerable impact on the children, increasing their well-being, happiness and readiness to engage in education. The service is an ‘extra string to the bow’ to offer to our families.

For further discussion and costs, please contact Jo Briscombe at jo.briscombe@southglos.gov.uk or call 01454 863349.