I’m qualified and experienced in delivering evidence-based parenting/family programmes, systemic and family work within local authority NHS and voluntary sector.  I love working with families and have a particular interest in:

• family dynamics and functioning 
• new parent emotional challenges
• children and young people impacted by difficult changes to family structure
• couples work especially impacting on the family

Families ebb and flow through life’s ups and downs, challenges and successes live in us as parents, children, caregivers or whoever may make up your family….. pets included.  All families are different and have their own culture.  Difference is unique within all families so needs to be approached with openness from me as your therapist / coach.  

There are many layers to us as humans and this translates into the families we come from and bring up.  I work in an empathetic way with these layers of to help me think about what your needs are as parent/carers children and others in your network. 

We don’t have all the answers and when we become stuck or negative patterns dominate our lived experience it can impact on all areas of our lives.  Work school home local communities and beyond at times bringing attention and interventions from services which can be difficult and frightening.  I use different approaches to support your needs and the reason why you have decided to seek help at this time.

Circle of Security (COSP)

At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

Using the COSP™ model developed by the Circle of Security originators, I work with parents and caregivers to help them to:

• Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs
• Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions
• Enhance the development of their child’s self esteem
• Develop and honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure

COSP™ is run over eight two-hour sessions, I include a further one-hour session before and after the course.  The pre session will prepare you for the course I find out learning styles and listen to any anxieties.  The post session will see how you have embedded any of the learning and to support where this can happen should it prove difficult.

I deliver the COSP™ to groups couples and individuals my work includes working privately and with local authorities.  People do COSP™ for a range of reasons including

Wanting to have a deeper understanding of their parenting/children

Increase the familial bonds and connections

Are in the process of preparing for an adoption

• Are preparing to become a step / blended family
• Are going through legal separation / divorce
• A requirement for families going through care proceedings
• Re/Establishing after experiencing a mental health crisis including low mood, depression, postnatal depression.  Please note you cannot be in crisis while working through COSP™.

I love delivering the COSP as it is therapy and attachment based and works solely with parents/carers helping to understand their children’s and their own experience of being parented. I will support you to understand your experience which is central to the programme and helps to enable you to grow with your child/ren.  COSP focuses on the attachment bond and communication in the parent child relationship the program supports parents to understand this lifelong continuum.  We can all be successful in how we raise our children, and we all have a way that is unique to us.

https://www.circleofsecurityinternational.com

Systemic Family Coaching 

This is dynamic engagement where I join your family in a way that supports change that comes from you and works for you.  The support is strategic, solution focused and a mix of

• Coaching the family/you through enactment of the difficulties you have in the home and relationships.

• Being together to discuss solutions to ongoing difficulties.

• Working together to form a family charter of how you would like to be and live as a family.

• Learning to understand and regulate emotion individually and as a family

The aim of this systemic family coaching is to support your family to work as a well-functioning team and help you to exert your parental power and responsibility in an appropriate way.  While supporting your children to move through their own development safely appropriately and happily.

For this approach to be effective there is a need for a minimum of six one-hour sessions.  This allows us to build rapport and trust so we can work in a collaborative way on the issues and concerns that are getting in your way.

By the end of the coaching as a family you will have produced a Family Book that includes who you are, your charter and way of doing and seeing things.  Your family book can include pictures drawings and writing whatever you want as a group.  The aim of it is to support sustainable change that works for you.

Systemic Family Therapy

These therapeutic sessions enables family members to express and explore difficult relationships thoughts and emotions safely.  I will support your family to understand each other’s experiences and views and appreciate each other’s needs.  All families have strengths and as your therapist I will support you to build on them.  Together I will help you make changes in your relationships that are meaningful, and support continued learning and growth.

If you require a report detailing your achievements and attendance please speak with me with regards this.  There will be an additional fee for this service.

I offer a free thirty-minute consultation in person online or telephone consultation and should you choose to work with me we will arrange weekly or biweekly schedule.  I include points of evaluation to ensure we are working towards your aims be it open ended or set course intervention.

Qualifications

• Associate Systemic & Family Therapist MA finale stages – The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
• PgCert Systemic Practitioner Individuals Families and Organisations – The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
• PgDip Evidence Based Parenting Programmes Supervision & Leadership – Middlesex University School of Health & Education
• Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator – Circle of Security International Facilitator Training
• Peeps Learning Together Programme Facilitator – Peeple Charity Facilitator Training
• Certificate in Mediation/Conflict Management – LB Enfield Children and Family Services
• Advance Cert Systemic Practice with Families and Couples – The Institute of Family Therapy & Birkbeck University of London
• BA – University East London

Fees

Circle of Security

Individual/couple – £ 850 per course

Group – £700 – per course

Refreshments and course materials included

Systemic Family Coaching

£80ph

£65ph block booking of six courses

Materials included

Systemic Family Therapy 

Couples – £85

Family – £90

Contact

I offer a free thirty-minute consultation in person online or by telephone and should you choose to work with me we will arrange a weekly or biweekly schedule.  I include points of evaluation to ensure we are working towards your aims and goals be it open ended or a set course
therapeutic intervention. I work at Homa on a Tuesday 5pm – 10pm if this doesn’t suit Sunday
appointments are available between 12pm – 5pm.  Please feel free to contact me to speak about your requirements.

Tel: 07479 410 656
www.attainablechange.com
Email: attainablechangepractice@gmail.com

The Attainable Change Practice – Independent Social and Wellbeing Services // part of the Attainable Change Group Ltd