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.

For Families: 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.

For Professionals: 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 how to breakthrough.

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

Book an initial family therapy consultation

For Professionals

- Specialist Support for care experienced children, young people and their 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.

- Systemic Training - Seeing the Whole Story

Training in Systemic, Healing-Centred Practice for Care-Experienced Children, Young People, and Families

Overview:

Frontline practitioners are being asked to do more than ever — holding complex emotional risk, responding to trauma, and stabilising young people with disrupted attachments and painful histories.

But real, lasting change doesn’t come from more strategies. It comes from changing the system around the child. This training is different.

Developed by systemic psychotherapist and organisational consultant Pei-I Yang, Seeing the Whole Story introduces the SA²F²E model — a relational, and systemically-driven framework designed to help practitioners become part of a young person’s healing journey.

You won’t just walk away with tools. You’ll walk away with a new way of seeing.

Who This Training 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

Seeing the Whole Story changes the culture of care from the inside out. Teams move beyond surface behaviour management to build meaningful, healing relationships with young people — leading to greater placement stability and long-term emotional resilience. At the same time, staff are supported to work reflexively and relationally, reducing burnout, increasing retention, and restoring a sense of purpose and possibility in their roles. When healing becomes a shared practice, everyone grows.

Seeing the Whole Story is available as both individual practitioner training and full team delivery. Whether you're a frontline worker seeking deeper tools for relational care, or a service lead looking to embed systemic, healing-centred practice across your team — this training meets you where you are. It's designed to strengthen individual confidence and collective capacity.

Find out more about Seeing the Whole Story Here

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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