Gateway Psychology

Parenting with Theraplay (Feb 2024)
2024-02-26 - 2024-03-18 | Gateway Psychology, 7-9 The Boulevard, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6BD, United Kingdom
This intervention brings a small group* of parents together in person with an experienced and qualified Theraplay® Practitioner accredited by Theraplay® UK. The structured intervention focuses on improving and deepening the relationships between parents and their child/children.
Cohort details:
This Parenting with Theraplay cohort is planned to start in February 2024.
Session dates: 26/02/2024, 04/03/2024, 11/03/2024, 18/03/2024
Times: 10:30-14:30
Course code: PWT003
Cost: Please contact us for a quote.
Funding deadline: 29 January 2024
Make a referral: Contact us
* Please note that we require a confirmation that you have made the funding (e.g. ASF) application by this date. Please ensure we have fully approved funding, including purchase order, by the course start date. If you intend to self-fund, we will require payment by this date to.
What is Parenting with Theraplay?
This intervention is a cost-effective way of providing a parent-focused Theraplay® Intervention and has the added benefit of generating self-sustaining parent support. It is also ideal as a preparation for those families who may move onto engagement with a formal Theraplay® Intervention with their children. It is the only parent group intervention to be developed, overseen and accredited by Theraplay® UK. The intervention is suitable for motivated adoptive parents, Special Guardians, foster carers and birth parents.
How to apply:
If you are a social worker and would like to refer a parent/carer on to our Parenting with Theraplay programme, please contact our referrals team.
If you are an adoptive parent or special guardian, your place might be funded through your Local Authority or Regional Adoption Agency. Please make contact with your social worker, who will be able to advise further. We recommend doing this well in advance of the funding deadline, as it can take some time to secure funding. Please feel free to ask your social worker to contact us for further information too. We will be happy to help.
If you intend to self-fund, please make contact with referrals@gateway-psychology. Our training team will talk through the next steps and get you booked in.
Terms and conditions
Spaces are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. You may contact us to reserve a place on our list, but the funding agreement confirms the place. We cannot confirm a place without the funding agreement, which must be received by the funding deadline. If we receive a funding agreement after the deadline, we cannot guarantee that the participant will be able to attend the course.
Please note that spaces are charged per person and not per household. Unregistered participants will be asked to leave the course. If we do not receive all funding agreements by the deadline, we may cancel the course.
We may also cancel the course if we do not receive enough applications by the deadline. We require a minimum number of participants for the course to go ahead.
If a participant chooses not to attend after the deadline has passed, this is classed as a late-notice cancellation and we will charge for the full amount.
Attendance is mandatory. If the majority of sessions are not attended, we will be unable to issue a certificate at the end of the course. If a participant does not attend the sessions, we will still need to charge for the full amount.

eTR-UST therapeutic parenting (Jan 2024)
2024-01-17 - 2024-03-13 | Virtual, United Kingdom
eTR-UST is an eight-week therapeutic parenting course for parents and carers of children and young people who have experienced early trauma, abuse or neglect. It is particularly well-suited to adoptive parents, foster carers and special guardians. It provides in-depth theory and knowledge, along with practical techniques and strategies for parenting children with attachment difficulties.
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Cohort details:
This cohort is planned to start in January 2024
Session dates: 17 January, 24 January, 31 January, 07 February, 21 February, 28 Feburary, 06 March, 13 March
Number of groups available: 3
Times available: Morning (10:00-12:30) or Evening (20:00-22:30)
Course codes: TRESEP43 (AM), TRESEP44 and TRESEP45 (PM)
Cost: £1000 + VAT
Funding deadline: 20 December 2023*
Make a referral: Click here
* Please note that we require a fully approved ASF application and purchase order by this date. If you intend to self-fund, we will require payment by this date too.
What is the course like?
All of the sessions incorporate specialist input from highly qualified clinical psychologists and therapists. As well as teaching, participants will also have the opportunity to take part in small group and individual exercises, as well as general group discussions, providing participants with maximum opportunity to understand and practice theories, ideas and skills.
This course is facilitated over eight weekly sessions of 2.5 hours per session. There will be a ninth follow up session held 3-4 months after the conclusion of the course. This is a complimentary session and optional for participants to attend.
Training is delivered by highly qualified clinical psychologists and therapists with many years’ experience working with trauma and attachment. Exercises, activities, video clips, discussion are used throughout the course to enhance the teaching and content.
eTR-UST is hosted virtually, via video conferencing methods. Participants will need a computer or tablet device, internet connection, webcam or device camera and microphone to participate.

A-ABC therapeutic parenting (Jan 2024)
2024-01-09 - 2024-02-06 | Virtual, United Kingdom
Adolescence, Attachment and Building Connection (A-ABC) is a five-session course that aims to explore attachment in teenagers, including their brain development, and how this applies to adolescents who have experienced early trauma.
Cohort details:
This cohort is planned to start in January 2024
Session dates: 9 January, 16 January, 23 January, 30 January, 06 February
Number of groups available: 2
Times available: Morning (10:00-12:30) or Evening (20:00-22:30)
Course codes: AABCJAN19 (AM), AABJAN20 (PM)
Cost: £750 + VAT
Funding deadline: 20 December 2023*
Make a referral: Click here (please note this form is for social workers/support workers)
* Please note that we require a fully approved ASF application and purchase order by this date. If you intend to self-fund, we will require payment by this date too.
What is A-ABC?
Adolescence, Attachment and Building Connection uses the ideas and influences of experts in attachment, brain development and trauma to explore this stage of development and the specific challenges that we may face in parenting teenagers. This advanced-level therapeutic reparenting programme demonstrates how many of the brain changes that occur during adolescence mean that teenagers lose some of their previous skills and abilities, and introduces the implications of this within a history of attachment and developmental trauma.
How to apply:
If you are a social worker and would like to refer a parent/carer on to our A-ABC programme, please fill out our referral form.
If you are an adoptive parent or special guardian, your place might be funded through your Local Authority or Regional Adoption Agency. Please make contact with your social worker, who will be able to advise further. We recommend doing this well in advance of the funding deadline, as it can take some time to secure funding. Please feel free to ask your social worker to contact us for further information too. We will be happy to help.
If you intend to self-fund, please make contact with training@gateway-psychology. Our training team will talk through the next steps and get you booked in.
Terms and conditions
Spaces are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. The application form reserves a place on our list, and the funding agreement confirms the place. We cannot confirm a place without the funding agreement, which must be received by the funding deadline. If we receive a funding agreement after the deadline, we cannot guarantee that the participant will be able to attend the course.
Please note that spaces are charged per person and not per household. Unregistered participants will be asked to leave the course. If we do not receive all funding agreements by the deadline, we may cancel the course.
We may also cancel the course if we do not receive enough applications by the deadline. We require a minimum number of participants for the course to go ahead.
If a participant chooses not to attend after the deadline has passed, this is classed as a late-notice cancellation and we will charge for the full amount.
Attendance is mandatory. If the majority of sessions are not attended, we will be unable to issue a certificate at the end of the course. If a participant does not attend the sessions, we will still need to charge for the full amount.
