Therapeutic Services · United Kingdom
Therapeutic support that
surrounds the whole home.
Supporting children. Strengthening teams. Developing therapeutic cultures.
Feeling & Healing Therapeutic Services works in partnership with children's residential homes to embed trauma-informed, attachment-focused and relationship-based practice into everyday care.
Why Feeling & Healing?
Therapy shouldn't sit separately from everyday care.
Children living in residential care may have experienced trauma, disrupted attachments, loss, neglect and other adverse experiences. Their behaviour can often communicate needs and experiences that are difficult to express in words.
Feeling & Healing helps the adults around the child develop greater understanding of what may sit beneath behaviour, and consider how relationships, environments and everyday interactions can support emotional safety.
Our approach means therapeutic support does not depend solely upon a young person attending therapy. We work around the whole home — child, team and leadership.
Therapeutic Partnership
Ongoing therapeutic support, tailored to your home.
01
Therapeutic consultation
Regular consultation supporting teams to understand children's emotional, behavioural and relational needs.
02
Reflective practice
Space for staff to reflect on their experiences, responses and relationships with the children they care for.
03
Therapeutic formulation
A shared understanding of the experiences and needs that may underpin a young person's presentation.
04
Direct therapeutic support
Therapeutic work with children and young people where appropriate, agreed and responsive to their readiness to engage.
05
Placement stability support
Consultation and guidance when placements are experiencing difficulty or increased complexity.
06
Manager consultation
Supporting Registered Managers to think therapeutically about children, teams and the culture of the home.
Clinical Partnership
For organisations seeking a greater level of therapeutic input across their services — therapeutic leadership, clinical governance, organisational development and specialist associate input.
Our approach
Five threads that run through everything we do.
Understanding how children's previous experiences may influence their present-day feelings, relationships and responses.
Recognising the importance of safe, consistent and emotionally available relationships.
Using Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy to support connection and understanding.
Therapeutic change often happens through everyday relationships and experiences — not only within formal therapy.
Helping adults remain curious about both the child's experience and their own responses.
We don't ask simply, "What's wrong with this behaviour?" We help teams become curious about, "What might this behaviour be communicating?"
Training
Specialist training for residential and fostering teams.
Sabrina Maynard — Founder & Director
Clinical leadership, with a growing network of specialist associates.
Sabrina is a qualified Social Worker, Registered Counsellor and qualified Counselling Supervisor with over 13 years' experience supporting vulnerable children, young people and families. She has specialist training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Levels 1 and 2 and is an approved DDP PACE Trainer.
Support for new children's homes
Building a therapeutic home from the beginning.
We can work alongside providers preparing to open new children's homes — from therapeutic input into the Statement of Purpose to manager consultation, workforce training and planning for ongoing therapeutic support once the home becomes operational.
Specialist associates
No single professional can — or should — claim expertise in every area. Where needs fall outside our core expertise, we can consider bringing appropriately qualified associate input into the wider therapeutic partnership.
How associate input works →In their words
What the homes we work with say.
We publish only words shared with us directly by the providers, managers and teams we work alongside.
Feeling & Healing have become a really valued support to both the children and the staff team. Their support has helped us during some challenging times, giving staff a safe space to reflect on situations, look at things from the child's perspective and think about different ways we can respond and support them. The advice, feedback and guidance we receive is always helpful and has supported us to develop our practice and provide a more therapeutic approach within the home. Sabrina is also currently looking into bespoke training for the homes, as well as developing packages of training to further support both staff and children, ensuring that the support we receive continues to be tailored to our specific needs.
Sabrina's involvement in our team meetings has given the team a much deeper understanding of PACE and how it can be effectively applied in practice. Her input has supported us in developing a greater understanding of our young people and recognising the impact of trauma on their behaviours. It has also helped us to identify trauma responses that we may not have previously considered or recognised, enabling us to reflect on our approach and respond to our young people with greater understanding and empathy.
We find that working with Feeling and Healing continues to be of huge benefit to our children, staff teams, and us as care providers, and look forward to many more years of successfully helping our young people achieve their goals. We would absolutely recommend Feeling and Healing to any provider looking for a therapeutic partner for their homes.
Get in touch
Discuss therapeutic support for your home.
Tell us about the children you care for, your team and where you'd like more therapeutic understanding. We'll talk it through honestly.