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Fostering Wisdom; Safeguarding Our Future
Referral Pathways
Child Pathway
This pathway is for the individual child who is under 18 years.
We understand that making that first step to organise counselling for a family member, yourself or even for the whole family can sometimes be daunting and takes a lot of courage.
You can give us a call or send an email. If we are unable to take your call straight away, please leave your first name and number and we will call you back as soon as we can.
What you can expect​:
We will ask you to fill out a screening form which will ask a few questions on behalf of the young person, yourself or the whole family. You can initially choose the pathway for your family or we can support you in this with an initial consultation.
Ideally, if you are filling in the screening form for a child or adolescent it is important that they are part of the process, this helps in building trust and can help with them wanting to come to sessions.
Once we know what pathway will be most suitable for your family, one of our counsellors will then call you to arrange the first session, we do our best to make this at a time and on a day suitable for you.
What happens next:
The first session allows you or your child to get a feel for what it may be like working with a designated counsellor.
​We can provide short and long term counselling. We have found that a minimum of 9 to 12 sessions has proven to be effective, with the offer of extending the sessions as required.
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Our counsellors use a wide range of therapeutic techniques and resources to suit the young person. We aim to listen and build a warm, friendly and trusting relationship where individual struggles can be explored.
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We aim to provide a space where young people can explore areas in their lives that they find difficult, and support them with understanding why they are experiencing these difficulties in the first place and how they can manage them more effectively going forward.
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Our approach allows young people to express themselves in different ways through talking and listening, creative work and play.
Parental Support
It is not easy being a parent/ carer, it is a unique experience for everyone and it can feel very daunting and scary, especially with teenagers.​​
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This pathway is supporting the parent /carer to build on their relational skills to bring consistent contact and connections in the family.
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The aim is to give the parent/carer a space to talk about difficult, emotional relational issues within the family with the aim of improving areas that are difficult to manage.
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Key areas often explored are:
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Help in identifying key areas that need support and how to engage with the Child / young person more effectively
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Help family members to understand what helps them to stay calm in the face of challenging behaviours
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Help to explore helpful boundaries in a way that is respectful and non-shaming.
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We can also support parents / carers to understand their own mental health and how their own life experiences may be affecting their relationships within the family.
Family support
Family and systemic support can help people in close relationships to communicate with each other more effectively.
The aim is to support family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, listen to each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.
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Our counselling practice aims to provide your family with an opportunity to talk to someone neutral, whose role is to work with you to understand the difficulties you are experiencing, the impact on each member of the family and the family as a whole and to support you in finding effective ways of communicating and being together.
It is a space where you will be listened to in an accepting and respectful way, to help you make sense of your concerns you have. Depending on the difficulties being experienced, the counsellor may work with a member of the family 1-1, with specific members of the family who are mainly impacted, or the whole family.
