Our therapeutic approach

The essence of our therapeutic work is to provide the opportunity for each child to find the strengths they have within themselves. When this discovery is matched to empowering opportunities and a safe environment in which to try new experiences, healing and growth are enabled.

• Each behaviour has underlying positive intent
  

• Behaviour is a means of communicating need
  

• Each child has within themselves a vast store of personal resources

Arriving at solutions

Rather than viewing the world through negativity and fear, each child begins to see the positive choices that he or she can make. The horizons of children widen as they move on from past difficulties and failures, to new possibilities for learning and growth.

Learning to succeed

Success can be learned. Through practical therapy, each child learns how to succeed, what that feels like, and how it is achieved. By building on a series of small successes the child develops the confidence to face the major issues he or she needs to address. With the courage to try new and more effective solutions, the child can let go of less successful ways of dealing with problems.