College Prospectus Vol.1 - Flipbook - Page 18
Health & Therapy
Therapy
The Psychotherapy Team provide therapeutic support to our young people and families. The team
liases closely with all areas of the college to offer a holistic and integrative approach. Training in
child/adolescent development, complex trauma and attachment theory underpin the therapeutic
work and direct development for staff across the trust. The team consists of creative
psychotherapists trained in Art Psychotherapy, Dramatherapy, Music Therapy, Dance Movement
Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy, Developmental Dyadic Practice and Counselling. The
team are registered with their relevant professional bodies, such as Health and Care Professions
Council and have undertake clinical supervision to quality assure their practice. The team work to
their professional code of ethics and standards. The team are dedicated to continued professional
development to both ensure best practice and develop the offer of the college’s therapeutic
provision. Therapists deliver individual, group, family and dyadic therapy sessions, while working
closely with the team around the young person. The young person’s wellbeing is at the centre of our
ethos and practice.
Our psychotherapy assessment process provides a space for young people and families to tell their
stories, to gain an overview of presenting issues and consider how therapeutic support could be
helpful. The assessment process consists of information gathering, meetings with parents/carers,
dyadic assessment sessions with parent and young person and individual assessment sessions with
the young person, giving an opportunity to be heard and understood. The assessing therapist will
consider whether therapeutic support would help the young person and their family, what form of
therapeutic support would be most suitable while considering timescales and aims of the therapeutic
work needed.
The Therapy team regularly liaise with staff across the college to ensure good practice and
communication. The therapy team support and train staff through discussion groups, supervision,
training and collaborative work with our young people. The therapy team support staff
understanding of developmental trauma, helping the college to become an organisation infused with
trauma and attachment informed theory and practice. Short term, skills-based groups provide staff
with opportunities to work alongside our young people therapeutically, developing therapeutic skills
they can apply to the classroom setting.
The therapy team support and facilitate therapeutic resources in classrooms, to aid the development
of trauma informed and therapeutic practice and complement the PSHE curriculum. Along with the
SaLT and OT team, psychotherapists help to provide therapeutic resources for support with
emotional regulation, endings and transitions, therapeutic interactions and emotional literacy.
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