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Residential Care Services Offer:
 

I have 2 loves: Working with Children Diagnosed with Learning Disabilities, and those that have come into the care system. I have worked within both Children's Services where I have needed to case hold and undertake comprehensive assessments of children in need, in addition to working within the Residential Care System, as a Mental Health Practitioner and Team Leader.

                                                                                           

Creative Therapeutic Support for Children in Care

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At Alternative Dimensions – Play Therapy, we specialise in providing trauma-informed, creative therapeutic services for children and young people in Foster Care, Residential Care, and wider children’s services.
Our approach is rooted in play, connection, and curiosity — helping professionals and carers understand the child’s inner world, build emotional safety, and support long-term healing.

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✨ Our Services:

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1. Therapeutic Consultation

Support for the Team Around the Child, designed to bring everyone into a shared space of thinking together.
We offer psycho-social insight and reflective guidance when challenges arise, helping teams understand:

  • Behaviour as communication

  • Trauma responses and emotional states

  • Strategies for safety, connection and co-regulation
    Our consultations strengthen the network around the child, ensuring a consistent and compassionate approach.

 

2. Specialist Training Packages

Equip your team with deeper therapeutic understanding through engaging, creative, and accessible training sessions:

  • Developmental Play – Understanding how play shapes the brain, relationships, and emotional growth

  • Sensory Play – Supporting regulation through sensory-rich, grounding experiences

  • Attachment & Child Development – Building knowledge of secure bases, trauma, and developmental needs

  • Resilience, Wellbeing & PLACE (Playful, Loving, Accepting, Curious, Empathy) – A practical framework for supporting healing relationships

Our trainings are suitable for foster carers, residential teams, social workers, and education staff.

 

3. Child Observations & Therapeutic Interventions

We offer sensitive, holistic observations to understand the child’s emotional world, relational patterns, strengths, and needs.
Interventions use creative therapeutic approaches with the goal of:

  • Supporting regulation

  • Enhancing emotional expression

  • Strengthening trusting relationships

  • Building resilience and wellbeing

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