Services

Drawing and talking is suitable for children, young people and adults to help with underlying emotional difficulties that may be affecting their learning, behaviour, self-esteem and relationships, where their full potential is not being realised either academically or socially.

As an attachment-based therapeutic intervention, Drawing and Talking enables a child to express, in a visual form, worries from deep in the mind that they would not be able to talk about. Very often children don’t always know what is wrong themselves. Drawing enables symbolic and safe expression of deep worries and feelings that may seem scary to a child.

Drawing and Talking is an approach that may help children and young people who:

• Have suffered trauma.

• Suffer because of separated or divorced parents.

• Have been or are in the process of being adopted or fostered.

• Are young carers.

• Are suffering from the effects of domestic violence.

• Suffer from anxiety, stress or phobias.

• Have suffered loss or bereavement of any kind.

• Find it difficult to make friends.

• Quarrel frequently with peers or siblings.

• Are ill or disabled.

• Suffer from disrupted or disturbed sleep.

• Do not play.

• Are at risk of being, or have been excluded from school.

• Are finding the world a challenging place to live.

The therapy sessions are conducted using a tried and tested 12 week programme. It is seen that, after completion of the 12 week programme, children are more able to control their behaviour, better able to manage an academic curriculum and have higher self-esteem, improved mental health and thrive in the world around them.

Primary School - English and Maths

Provision of additional learning support for your child as they go through the primary school following the Maths and English curriculum. These can be one off sessions, or a series, that will provide support for children from ages 5-11. Tutoring on a one to one basis helps children learn at their own pace to ensure that their individual needs are met.