Training for the complexity of real life.

Individuals rarely operate in isolation, and families are multilayered, complicated systems that rarely experience life as singular events or categories, therefore training should reflect that. 

A variety of workshops and sessions are available and can be adapted or tailored to suit your specific needs and ensure that learning is targeted, meaningful, and enjoyable. 

Children and young people's mental health cannot be understood in isolation. Every child exists within a family, relationships, schools, communities and the everyday experiences that shape who they are.

Sessions utilise a family-centred lens to move beyond diagnosis alone towards relational, strengths-based and participation-focused care, developing practical approaches that understand the whole child and empower families to thrive.. 

• Seeing The Whole Child
• Working with Families as Partners
• Emotional Regulation and Distress
• Trauma-Informed and Neurodiversity-Affirming CAMHS
• Supporting Young People Through Everyday Life
• Risk, Relationships and Hope
• Working Across Systems

Translating Attachment Theory, early relational difficulties, and expectations of parenting and parents into  practical everyday actions and solutions for parents. 

• Foundations of infant mental health
• Attachment beyond theory
• Reading infant communication
• Reflective parenting approaches
• Supporting attachment following trauma
• Co-regulation and emotional development
• Supporting vulnerable parent-infant relationships
• Building resilience through everyday interactions

Practical strategies and support for regulation, behaviour, distress and sensory processing for children and young people who find the world a little overwhelming at times. 

• Understanding sensory processing
• Regulation before behaviour
• Co-regulation across the lifespan
• Creating sensory-supportive environments
• Sensory processing and trauma
• Supporting participation rather than compliance
• Practical strategies within schools and services
• Emotional regulation and co-regulation
• Neurodiversity-affirming sensory practice
• Everyday sensory supports
• Moving beyond compliance-based approaches

Examines the reality of the post natal period, supported bonding , identity, parental guilt and practical coping strategies. 

• Recognising postnatal mental health difficulties
• Parent-infant mental health and relationships
• Supporting recovery through relationships
• Trauma-informed postnatal care
• Fathers, partners and wider family wellbeing
• Working with complexity rather than diagnosis alone
• Supporting recovery without judgement
• Working with families experiencing complexity
• Trauma-informed perinatal practice

Practical strategies to help children and parents build independence, resilience and balance, and reduce chaos and distress. 

• Functional approaches to participation
• Executive functioning across development
• Promoting independence in everyday occupations
• Collaborative goal setting
• Working with families in natural environments
• Strengths-based occupational approaches
• Daily occupations and routines
• Supporting participation

Looking at simple and real life ways to improve emotional communication and connection within families; repair ruptures and breakdowns; and support children and young people to feel safe to explore and express their feelings. 

• Family-centred communication
• Restoring connection after rupture
• Collaborative approaches to behaviour
• Working alongside families
• Emotional safety in practice
• Attachment-informed communication
• Emotional validation
• Supporting healthy relationships

How neurodiversity and trauma show themselves beyond the textbook, looking beyond behaviour and shame to challenge ideas and present alternative affirming approaches.

• Trauma-informed practice
• Neurodiversity-affirming approaches
• Understanding distress as communication
• Reducing masking and promoting authenticity
• Creating psychologically safe environments
• Collaborative practice with families
• Beyond behaviour management

 Supporting families and children experiencing grief, loss and suicide using gentle, child-centered approaches and experiences to create safe spaces for difficult questions and conversations.

• Understanding children's concepts of death across developmental stages
• Trauma-informed bereavement care
• Working without pathologising grief
• Balancing risk awareness with relational safety
• Shame, stigma and silence following bereavement
• Supporting grieving families within education and healthcare settings
• Supporting children after traumatic death or suicide (postvention)
• Continuing bonds and healthy remembering
• Supporting grieving parents while supporting grieving children
• Risk awareness without fear-based practice
• Navigating shame, stigma, guilt, anger and complex grief
• Working alongside families with compassion and confidence    

Using Mad ideologies, professional and lived experience to challenge ideas around mothers with significant mental health issues and their ability to parent; scaffolding and support through difficult episodes; and the impact of parenting on mental health and recovery. 

• Working alongside parents with severe mental illness
• Supporting attachment during instability
• Moving beyond surveillance-based practice
• Risk versus relational safety
• Preserving parental identity and agency
• Trauma-informed family work
• Repair after difficult days
• What children need to know
• Building safety and support
• Letting go of perfection

 When the individual aspects that life layer to create complex multidimensional dynamics that adversely impact upon the lives of children, young people and families.  

• Working with complexity rather than diagnosis
• Family systems in practice
• Intersectionality in child and family work
• Collaboration across services
• Reflective practice and professional curiosity
• Holding uncertainty with confidence
• Building resilience
• Supporting the whole family