FOSTERING GROWTH

I have been working as a therapist with children and families for over twenty years across a range of Social Care, Health and Educational settings. For ten years I have specialised in working within fostering and adoption, both as a training facilitator and therapist within the state and private sector. 

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I am a Systemic Family Therapy Practitioner and a Music Therapist and I am additionally trained in NVR (Non violent Resistance) and Theraplay. I work collaboratively with other therapists as appropriate for the needs of the client or organisation. 

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My wealth of experience of direct work with children and families has enabled me to develop training courses that address the day-to-day challenges that foster carers and adopters face in their everyday care of young people.

Having worked with many families in crisis I became interested in finding an approach that would help families to find peaceful ways of resolving conflict which led me to co-develop the NVR (Non Violent Resistance) Group Programme.  We have been offering this course to foster carers for many years with some outstanding outcomes regarding placement stability.

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As a creative therapist I always ensure that my courses are a good balance of theory and evidence practice alongside practical and creative ideas to help carers and adopters engage young people.