When working with adoptive parents, foster carers, social workers and special guardians, we understand that many wonder how a child could have experienced trauma if they were removed into care from birth or shortly afterwards.

Adolescence, Attachment and Building Connection (A-ABC) is a eight-session course that aims to explore attachment in teenagers, including their brain development, and how this applies to adolescents who have experienced early trauma.

LEAPlets (Apr 2024)

30 April - 16 July

LEAPlets is an 11-week manualised groupwork programme designed to nurture and support the development of attachment relationships and build children’s foundation sensorimotor systems. It’s a very ‘hands on’ group, working [...]

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.

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 [...]

This one-day course for professionals working with adoptive parents, SGO carers or foster carers who may be at risk of or currently experiencing blocked care. It is designed to provide an understanding of the theory and research behind the brain science of blocked care, as well as strategies for assessing blocked care and supporting parents/carers.

Parenting with Theraplay (Sep 2024)

23 September - 14 October

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 [...]

LEAPlets (Sep 2024)

24 September - 10 December

LEAPlets is an 11-week manualised groupwork programme designed to nurture and support the development of attachment relationships and build children’s foundation sensorimotor systems. It’s a very ‘hands on’ group, working [...]

This is a one day course for professionals to explore dissociation and how it presents in children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma and attachment difficulties. Dissociation is [...]