Rainbow Family Therapy Service

Supporting Families Through Difficult Times

Welcome to Rainbow Family Therapy Service, a dedicated family therapy service committed to supporting families and professionals facing various challenges.

We are here to provide families a safe and nurturing environment for families to explore and work through their difficulties. We understand the complexities of family dynamics and are here to help you navigate through them with compassion and expertise.

We also work alongside professionals holding complex family systems — when the stakes are high, and the path forward isn’t clear.

Whether you’re leading a residential service, coordinating a fostering team, or supporting families at the edge of care, I provide strategic consultation, case insight, and systemic thinking to help you hold the families no one else knows what to do with.

Our Specialised Services

- Family Therapy for Families

At Rainbow Family Therapy Service, we offer a wide range of specialised services to address various family-related issues, including family relationships difficulties, separation, divorce, and step-family challenges, child and adolescent mental health support, behaviour management for children, adolescents, and adults, parenting issues, domestic violence and abuse, self-harm, drug and alcohol misuse, and trauma . We are dedicated to providing personalised and effective support to help your family thrive.

What is Family and Systemic Psychotherapy?

Family therapy, also known as systemic psychotherapy, is a powerful approach that focuses on understanding and improving the dynamics within a family system. It recognises that each member of the family influences and is influenced by the others, and that challenges within one member can impact the entire family.

How can Family Therapy help?

Family therapy can be beneficial for a wide range of issues, including:

Family relationship difficulties
Child and adolescent mental health issues
Adult mental health issues
Child, adolescent and adult behaviour difficulties
Parenting issues
Illness and disability in the family
Separation, divorce and step-family life
Fostering, adoption, kinship care and the needs of ‘looked after’ children
Domestic violence and abuse
Self-harm
Drug and alcohol misuse
The effects of trauma
Physical illness, death, dying and bereavement
Difficulties related to ageing and other life cycle changes

Services

Send an enquiry for Family Therapy

- Specialist Support for Complex Families (Commissioned by Professionals Who Need More Than the System Can Provide)

We understand the challenges your team faces when working with care-experienced children, high-risk families, and adolescents on the edge of breakdown.

When traditional services haven’t worked — and the family system feels too complex to hold — we step in.

Our commissioned packages are designed for professionals, agencies, and teams who need to refer families for specialist systemic support. We work with the family directly, while offering insight, updates, and collaboration with the professionals involved.

What’s Included in the Package

🔹 Systemic Family Support – direct therapeutic parenting input and crisis stabilisation

🔹 Individual psychotherapy for young person - providing young person an additional safe space to work through their feelings and make sense of their experiences
🔹 Case Consultation & Progress Reports – collaborative working with the commissioning team
🔹 Psychoeducation for Parents – grounded in family systems, behavioural science, and attachment
🔹 Optional Reflective Practice – available for staff involved in complex family care

Our approach

The SA²F²E Model is a systemically-led, trauma-informed framework designed to support care-experienced children, families, and the professionals around them. Blending family therapy, psychology, trauma recovery, child development psychoanalysis and emotional development, it uses six key pillars — Safe, Attachment, Acceptance, Family Functioning, Flexibility, and Emotional Literacy — to restore connection, reduce crisis behaviours, and build lasting resilience within families.

Who Commissions Us

Local authorities seeking additional family support

Residential or educational teams facing family disengagement

Social workers and safeguarding leads managing repeated breakdown

Agencies supporting foster carers, adoption or kinship families in crisis

Why Professionals Choose Us

Because your team is already doing everything it can.
Because the system doesn’t have the right container for these cases.
Because this family needs more than a referral — they need a reset.

We offer that reset — delivered with clinical integrity, system-wide perspective, and the clarity to move forward.

- Supporting Professionals Who Hold the Hardest Stories (training for individuals or teams)

A 3 day training on Seeing the Whole Story: A Systemic Approach to Supporting Care-Experienced Children, Young People, and Families

Overview:

Today's frontline practitioners are expected to stabilise young people carrying profound histories of trauma, loss, and systemic disruption — often without the systemic understanding needed to create lasting change.

This training is different.

Rooted in the innovated SA²F²E model created by Pei-I, Seeing the Whole Story teaches staff how to move beyond behaviour management and instead become part of a child's healing system — through relational connection, systemic thinking, and emotional literacy.

You'll walk away not just with tools, but a deeper way of seeing, responding, and healing.

Who This Is For:

Residential care teams
Foster carers and kinship support workers
Therapeutic keyworkers
Family support practitioners
Youth justice workers
Safeguarding, inclusion and pastoral leads
Social care and multi-agency professionals

What You'll Learn:

🔹 Day 1: Seeing the Whole Story

Understanding behaviour through systemic, relational, and contextual lenses
Using SA²F²E to recognise invisible drivers behind crisis and complexity
Moving beyond “fixing” and into relational meaning-making and collaborative intervention

🔹 Day 2: Building Relational Safety

Exploring how practitioner stories, lived experiences, and systemic contexts shape relational work
Deepening trust and emotional connection as foundational practice — beyond strategies and scripts
Developing relational reflexivity to shift power dynamics and restore agency for children and families

🔹 Day 3: Embedding Relational Healing Practice

Translating systemic insights into everyday relational practice
Working with families and systems even when contact is fractured or complex
Sustaining emotional resilience and relational integrity without professional burnout

Delivery Options:

Individual Practitioner Training3 x Full Days - £1200 per person ( next training coming soon)

Team Training 3 x Full Days (Live Online or In-Person) £5500 for up to 10 participants

Additional Participants: +£400 per person (Max 16–18 participants)
Travel and accommodation costs apply for in-person training outside London/UK base.

Ready to create healing-centred, system-aware change?

Secure your place or enquire about team training delivery. Join the professionals reshaping the future of care through connection, not control.

or Write to us to find out more about the Seeing the whole story training, you can contact us here.

Contact

Get in Touch With Us

If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment, feel free to reach out to us. We are here to support you and your family on your journey towards healing and growth.

You can contact us on enquiries@rainbowfamilytherapy.co.uk