Therapeutic Parenting
Therapeutic Parenting is a parenting approach that combines high nurture, high structure, alongside PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy). The approach is trauma and attachment informed.
Children who have experienced trauma require a particular kind of parenting and often a specialised way of responding to challenging behaviour.
Specialising in working with adoptive parents and other caregivers who are parenting children who have experienced developmental trauma, we use a DDP informed approach to support our therapeutic parenting sessions. We aim to help parents better understand their children's specific needs in relation to their early trauma and attachment experiences. Supporting parents with the complex issues that parenting traumatised children may raise, including working through any struggles that they may experience in connecting with their children due to 'blocked care'.
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Therapeutic parenting can help families who are struggling with children who show emotional distress, challenging behaviour and insecurity.
The fact that this approach focuses on parents doesn’t mean the problems are parents’ fault. It’s just that some children need very particular parenting approaches such as therapeutic parenting. In our therapeutic parenting sessions, we will think carefully about your family’s journey so far and about how you are managing the challenges you are facing. We work from a starting point that all behaviour is communication, we will work with you to try and unpick what that communication is and how by responding with elements of PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy) we can support our children in their regulation.
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Some of the questions we might be thinking about together are:
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What is your child trying to communicate thorough their behaviours?
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What are they experiencing emotionally?
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How does this impact on the relationship between you?
We can offer you a range of ideas around how you can adapt your parenting approach based on your child’s particular needs. We can help you put new ideas into practice in your day-to-day parenting and think together about what works and what doesn’t, without forgetting that you as parents are the experts in your child's life.
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Our work is flexible and will be unique to your family. We don’t operate a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and we will always work together with you to make sure we are providing the best support possible. We can work virtually or face to face and can offer a range of appointment times from mornings, during school hours and some evenings. Please contact us to discuss your families needs and how we can support them.