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We provide 1:1 Psychotherapy, Creative Therapy and Therapeutic Mentoring with children and young people aged between 3 to 24 years old.
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At the same time as the children and young people have their Therapy or Therapeutic Mentoring session, we also provide holistic intergenerational support to the parents/carers with specialist group learning and support over a cup of tea.
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We work with families and provide access to Therapy and Therapeutic Mentoring for as long as it takes for symptoms to reduce, often for more than 12 months.
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The TRC have an open door policy so children and adults can come back and re-connect anytime after they have left.
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We work with the whole family so that they can recover together and often siblings come at the same time to see their separate Therapists whilst their parent or carer receives Therapeutic Parenting support.
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Each Trauma Recovery Centre is full of specialist kit and with a number of fully equipped therapy rooms. Our flagship Centre in Bath has a soft play, 6 smaller therapy rooms and 3 larger spaces, including a multi-level castle plus a garden, all equipped with everything that a Therapist or Therapeutic Mentor might need to run their sessions.
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We are child centred and work as a multidisciplinary team with all the professionals that support the child, young person and family, including working with teachers, healthcare professionals, social workers etc to help them to understand how to support the child.
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Support is provided in community buildings (which we have specific use of) as we value the relationship with the parent/carer as central to holistic recovery support, and we recognise that a highly accessible location is important in light of people travelling from afar to come to us.
Trauma Recovery UK
We are Trauma Recovery UK with Trauma Recovery Centres across the UK.
We are specialists in Trauma Recovery, helping families recover from complex trauma. We are unique in providing support to both the child and the parent/carer, helping support them as they piece their lives back together until a wholeness can be found.
We take referrals for young people
aged 3-24 years old.
We also work with the parent/carer of children up to age 16 in our parent support groups.
We are highly specialised psychotherapists, art therapists, play therapists, music therapists and parent support workers.
"I was invited by Betsy de Thierry to speak about attachment research to colleagues at her Trauma Recovery Centre in Bath. I arrived early and she kindly gave me a guided tour. Naturally I only saw empty rooms but I was enchanted by the different spaces that I entered, where traumatised children (and sometimes adults) can express themselves in myriad ways, to find resolution, repair and peace from their torments. There were quiet rooms, private rooms, rooms where a child could really let rip; there were opportunities for them to write things - anything they wanted - on the walls, and there were some big structures where they could lose (and find) themselves, along with a seemingly endless supply of dolls, clay, mobiles, toys... you name it, there it was.”
Professor David Shemmings OBE
From the forward of The Simple Guide to Child Trauma (de Thierry, 2016)