Projects
Child Parent Psychotherapy - Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention For Infants, Children, and Families

About

This is a private service located within 10 Windsor Walk, offering therapy for young children from birth through age five who have experienced traumatic events and their parents/caregivers.

We aim to

  • Support family strengths and relationships.
  • Help families heal and grow after stressful experiences.
  • Respect family and cultural values.

We offer

  • Under 5s screening & assessment to identify the most appropriate intervention.
  • We consider the child and the caregivers needs alongside the relationship needs.
  • Treatment suitable for children and adults with neurodiversity and specific learning needs.
  • Support for the network to support the family- including liaison with partner agencies in the NHS and social care.
  • Training for professionals on our therapeutic approach.

Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)

CPP treatment aims to help children and parents make sense of, and recover from, trauma, through a range of modalities such as developmental guidance, insight-oriented interpretation and advocacy. The goal of CPP is to support and strengthen the parent–child relationship.

CPP is culturally aware, understanding cultural strengths as a source of protection and wisdom, whilst recognising ongoing and historical oppression and trauma that too many groups have experienced. Speaking the unspeakable and action-orientated practice are principal aspects of CPP that support this work. CPP is based in attachment theory but also integrates psychodynamic, developmental, trauma, social learning and cognitive behavioural theories.

Circle of Security

Using the COSP™ model developed by the Circle of Security developers, our trained Facilitators work with parents and care-givers to help them to:
– Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs.
– Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.
– Enhance the development of their child’s self esteem.
– Honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.

Narrative work

Based on the principles of life story work, our narrative books are developmentally appropriate and co-produced with caregivers. They are books that explain difficult experiences to very young children, such as why they have come into care, why they might not see a parent, and traumatic events they have witnessed or experienced.

Our Team

We are a team of clinical psychologists and social workers with years of experience of working with children and their families within the NHS, Childrens Social Care and Family Justice.

Referrals, cost and contact

We accept referrals from children’s social care, private fostering and adoption agencies. Packages can be funded via the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), and we provide a costing breakdown to enable the child’s Local Authority Social Worker to apply for ASF funding. To make an enquiry, please contact our team via referrals@taisci.org