Therapeutic Consultancy
What is Therapeutic Consultancy?
Therapeutic consultancy offers a space to step back, reflect, and make sense of the challenges you're facing—whether in your professional role, your relationships, or your personal life. It's not therapy in the traditional sense, but it draws on therapeutic principles to help you see situations and relationships more clearly. At its core, this work is about understanding why people behave the way they do and how to respond more effectively.
My training and experience enables me to support adults who feel particularly ‘stuck’, confused and/or worried about a child/young person, situation or professional relationship. I am able to shed meaning on underlying (and often unconscious) behaviours to help adults understand particularly complex presentations and work together to find a way forward..
What Are The Benefits of Therapeutic Consultancy?
Makes sense of behaviours
Behaviour is a way of communication and there's meaning underneath—rooted in history, relationships, or unmet needs. Sometimes behaviours and the way children relate can feel confusing, unsafe and/or frustrating, and supportive adults can feel ‘stuck’. With a doctorate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I help to understand the meaning behind behaviours of children, young people making links to their past experiences and relationships if relevant.
Draws on helpful responses and strategies
Once you understand what's driving behaviour, the next question is: What do I do with that? Together, we explore approaches that are practical, compassionate, and tailored to your context building on the concepts of DDP, NVR and Theraplay. The goal isn't a script—it's building confidence in how to create safety for children and young people, increased understanding and meaningful relationships.
Strengthens relationships and connections
Whether you're supporting a child/young person, other supportive adults or managing a team, relationships are where change happens. I help develop ways of connecting that build trust and safety, reduce conflict, and create the conditions for growth.
Helps improve confidence
With an increased understanding of a child and young person and how best to support them, anyone supporting a child/young person, supportive adults or a team is more likely to feel more confident bringing better outcomes for children, young people and the adults supporting them.
Reduces ruptures in relationships
With better understanding and confidence in a child/young persons presentation and how best to support them, relationships are more likely to feel safer and secure for a child reducing ruptures in relationships and placement breakdowns.
Improves team cohesion and communication
Consultation creates shared understanding across adults and teams. This improves consistency, reduces conflict, and supports a unified approach to caring for young people.
Creates a Therapeutic Culture
Regular input helps shift homes from “managing behaviour” to creating therapeutic environments and a therapeutic model where relationships, safety and emotional development are prioritised.
Supports senior leadership (SLT) teams to ensure trauma-informed practice is embedded
Regular consultations will allow the SLT to review processes such as; monitoring outcomes, individualised care planning, supervision frameworks, reviewing processes incidents, to ensure that trauma-informed practice is embedded top down and bottom up.
Who Can Therapeutic Consultancy Support?
Professionals working in social care, residential care, foster care, therapy or counselling services, youth services or education, who want to reflect on their practice, understand a child/young person better and/or work towards finding therapeutic solutions to complex relationships and behaviours.
Parents and carers navigating challenging behaviours or relationship ruptures and would like a clearer understanding of what is going on under the surface and how to respond.
Teams and organisations seeking to understand relational dynamics and improve the team culture.