Specialist Family Therapy for Fostering, Adoption & Kinship Care Services

 

When placements are under strain and behaviour is escalating, the risk of breakdown increases. Care-experienced children and young people often carry complex trauma histories that show up relationally — through emotional dysregulation, behavioural escalation, withdrawal, contact-related stress, or conflict within the placement.

 

Individual support may already be in place.Yet the wider relational system remains under pressure. Family and Systemic Psychotherapy provides structured intervention at the level where these patterns are actually playing out — within relationships.The aim is not simply insight.
 

It is stabilisation, strengthened relational containment, and sustainable change.

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This work supports foster carers, adoptive families, kinship carers, birth families navigating contact or reconnection, care-experienced childre and adolescents and multi-agency professionals seeking systemic input

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Presenting difficulties may include:

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• Behavioural escalation or aggression

• Emotional volatility and dysregulation

• Attachment-related strain

• Placement instability

•  Contact-related conflicts

• Identity and belonging challenges

• Self-harm or risk-taking behaviours

• High-conflict family dynamics

• Mental health difficulties 

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What Family Therapy Provides in Care Contexts

 

Systemic family therapy can:

 

• Reduce behavioural escalation within placements

• Strengthen carer confidence and containment

• Improve communication between carers and young people

• Support families through transitions

• Reduce placement disruption risk

• Complement CAMHS or individual psychological or therapeutic work

• Strengthen relational stability so other interventions can settle and hold

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The work is structured, goal-focused, collaborative and paced to the needs of the family and referring organisation.

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Referral & Commissioning Options

 

I accept referrals through:

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• Direct family self-funding

• Agency-funded referrals

• Case-by-case commissioning

• Block session agreements (by arrangement)​