Our Services

This workshop will support you to deepen your understanding of the meaning of safeguarding and child protection in your professional practice.

This course presents theory which will enable attendees to understand the neurobiology and psychology at the root of the behaviours that vulnerable children present. The trainer will present an emotional coaching approach so that attendees can use these skills to help a child or adolescent to develop emotional literacy and to regulate their own emotions, impulses and overall behaviour.

When we are in the role of caring for and supporting others who are in need and particularly when they have experienced trauma, there is a risk that any of us could develop blocked care as a result of secondary traumatic stress. This risk of blocked care increases as our internal and external resources diminish. This training is designed for any adults working with traumatised or vulnerable children and adolescents to create a space to think about the impact of working with trauma on them and ways that they can maximise their supports and resources in order prevent secondary trauma and burnout.

This workshop focuses on developing an understanding of child criminal exploitation and spotting the signs. Practical resources including contextual safeguarding approaches and disruptive tactics that can be used to safeguard children from harm will be shared.

This workshop focuses on understanding healthy child sexual development and when to be concerned about sexualised behaviours. Practical resources and tools will be offered to guide safety planning and interventions tailored to a child's stage of development.

This one-day course explores what the latest research tells us about child-set fires. Particular attention is given to the lens through which we approach firesetting behaviour, the motives for child-set fires, and "what works" in addressing child-set fires.

This course is designed for any adult supporting children and adolescents who have experienced adversity and trauma.

Sean's trainings cover the complexity of the nuanced high-risk harm that is affecting our communities and offer both theory and real-world application. This training is designed for practitioners in any setting who may be supporting young people at risk of, or experiencing, extra familial harm such as exploitation, serious violence and trafficking.

This training is for anyone who wishes to work online with children and young people, or processes data using a smartphone, computer, recorder or paper notes! It focuses on preventing online harm through your professional role and is a thorough walk through of essential cybersecurity guidelines and requirements.

This course is designed for advanced practitioners only after completing the Level One Ethics, Law and Data Protection course, and goes into greater detail around rights, security, data and the law and good cybersecurity practice.

Access to “adult material” (pornography) has become an almost inevitable part of a child or young person’s lived experience, whether accidental or intentional. This course will incorporate a range of supportive discussions, resources and techniques to help those working with CYP feel confident in how they approach such a challenging and emotive topic.

With most children and young people increasingly having an online or digital presence, this brave new world comes complete with new and ever evolving risks and dangers to their safety and wellbeing. This course will incorporate a range of supportive discussions, resources and guidance in how to best support CYP in the complex area of safeguarding.

This day is an introduction to dissociation, and will explore its function as an autonomous adaptive survival strategy that often goes unnoticed in children and young people. This training will increase awareness and understanding, consider the theory and thinking behind it and how we might effectively communicate with children, their carers and schools to recognise this trauma response and how we might best support children and young people.

This training workshop is suitable for any adult who cares for or works to support children and adolescents who are presenting with difficulties around eating behaviour. The course offers both theory and practical ways to respond.

Pro-Social problem solving skills are a recurring need amongst teenagers with offending behaviours. This one day course explores the latest research in problem solving work and identifies creative exercises to use with adolescents to help them in their decision making.

This workshop focuses on forensic case formulation with children presenting with high risk behaviours and complex needs. Attendees will learn how this improves a shared understanding of the whole child and guides the development of more effective interventions.

This five day foundation training course provides the theoretical knowledge and practical tools required to work directly with children and teenagers who set fires. Using evidence-based research and practice throughout, the course equips attendees with the understanding and practical skills to ensure their work is both ethical and effective.

The topics of safeguarding and child protection can sometimes leave us feeling daunted, and we may worry if we are getting it right. Attend the Foundations workshop to gain the confidence and understanding around how to embody safe, effective, and legally compliant practice with children and young people.

Explore good practice in supporting children and young people as their unique gender and sexual identities emerge. A safe open space to explore anti-lesbian, gay, bi, trans & queer (LGBTQ) prejudice and its impacts.

This training is designed for anyone working with adolescents in any context. The course presents the latest neuroscientific findings on teenage brain and psychological development and will help participants to use this understanding and insight to enable them to engage with adolescents in ways that gain their trust and co-operation.

Play is a child’s natural mode of communication and means to learning about the world. Adult-child play also functions to deepen relational connections and build a child’s confidence and self-esteem. This training offers carers and professionals an opportunity to consider how they can use play and playfulness to support a child’s development and resilience.

If a parent has experienced loss or trauma that is unresolved, this gets handed down to their children. In this workshop you will learn how to help parents heal their own emotional wounds in the context of their relationship with their child/ren.

How can we help our children thrive in a world that seems to be driving them (and us) mad? In this workshop, you will learn how our children's minds are affected by the world around them, and how to help them - with a particular focus on the impact of digital technology and the climate crisis.

How do we support children and young people to accept all parts of who they are? A warm, open space to explore power, prejudice and difference and their impacts on the lives of children and young people.

This workshop has been designed to empower adoptive parents as they navigate the complexities of life story work. In this interactive and informative session, adoptive parents will come to better understand how to help their children understand, process, and manage their histories and the many parts that make them who they are.

This day examines neurodiversity specifically in girls across a range of common diagnoses. It's an area that is often misunderstood and can be easily overlooked which can have a devastating impact on mental health and wellbeing. This training will help increase awareness and understanding, explore ways that can support neurodivergent girls better and consider how we can advocate for their needs to be met.

The training will explain how technology is changing us as relational beings and how this impacts our development and conversational abilities online and beyond. It will consider the data and theory around these issues and explore how this affects children and young people (and us as well!)

This course will equip practitioners working in schools or around education settings to be both fully updated with new legislation and to have digital safeguarding training that covers the online world and the harms children face.

This training is designed as an open forum for carers and practitioners to give them a space to reflect on the challenges they may face in their roles with children and adolescents. Having a safe space to reflect, not just on struggles but also successes alongside a clinical practitioner who has many years' experience in facilitating reflective practice, will help participants to gain a broader insight to the myriad of relational complexities that are part of supporting children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.

This course is designed for parents, carers or professionals who would like to learn about how to support a child or adolescent who presents with disrupted attachment. The trainer will focus on practical ways that anyone supporting children can help the child feel safe within their nervous system and emotions and to develop healthier ways of getting their needs met. It can be attended as a stand alone workshop for those with a good working knowledge of attachment theory or as a second module to Christina's Understanding Attachment training.

Pro-Social Modelling is fundamental for behaviour change yet it continues to be an under-used model in direct work with children and families. This one day course explores the skills needed to bring about behaviour change in clients and how these can be applied immediately to direct work.

A day focusing on child protection, safeguarding and lone working designed especially for professionals working in Private Practice.

Sean's trainings cover the complexity of the nuanced high-risk harm that is affecting our communities and offer both theory and real-world application. This training is designed for any professionals working within settings engaging with those at risk of, or exposed to, community violence, exploitation and trafficking.

Sibling sexual abuse presents with unique issues and challenges. This workshop will cover the nature of such abuse and how to support families in moving forward in a healthy way.

This course is designed for parents, foster carers and adoptive parents. Over six sessions it presents an opportunity for parents/carers to take a deep dive into exploring why it can feel so challenging to care for and gain the trust of child or adolescent who has experienced Developmental Trauma. The trainer will support parents and carers to understanding the complex functioning and behaviour of traumatised children and adolescents and how to respond to them in ways which will calm their frightened nervous systems and gain their trust, moving towards the development of a secure attachment.

A child or adolescent presenting with self-harming behaviour or suicidal ideation is probably one of the most challenging experiences for carers and professionals alike. This course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and insight to the psychology and emotions of a child or adolescent who is presenting with suicidal ideation or self-harm in order to understand how to best support the young person to feel more emotionally contained and over time to develop the inner resources to be able to regulate their physiology and challenging emotions through self-care rather than self-destruction.

Choose your own training programme from the selection we offer, or we can curate a tailored training programme specially for you.

For children and adolescents navigating the development of sibling and peer relationships can at times feel precarious. While children are developing the skills to manage complex dynamics through the course of their development, they will naturally encounter challenges along the way. This training is designed for carers or professionals supporting children or adolescents in any context or capacity who experience greater than typical struggles in their sibling or peer relationships.

This training workshop is designed to support anyone caring for or working with children and adolescents to explore the process of grieving as a result of loss, whether through bereavement or separation. Practical strategies will be presented which can support mourning and foster emotional resilience.

It is well recognised that how adults around a child who discloses sexual abuse respond to them has a significant impact on the child’s mental health outcomes. This course is designed specifically to help carers and professionals to reflect on and understand the complex and distressing topic of Child Sexual Abuse and to consider the many ways they can meet the child’s emotional needs and contribute to the promotion of the child’s resilience and recovery.