Tendring Families First engages BACP qualified Counsellors to work with our children and their families. The Counsellors assist with varied emotional and practical difficulties and help empower children through learning new skills and coping mechanisms to help them move forward and deal with future family difficulties.
The Counsellor’s work with the child over an 8 week period, providing up to eight 1:1 counselling sessions along with Family Therapeutic work, Behaviour Management and Art Therapy. Children achieve an improvement of their understanding and managing emotions, through examining and exploring thoughts, feelings and behaviours, recognising issues and making changes. Counselling enables children to recognise problems that they have dealt with in the past and utilise and build on those skills to help manage themselves and their families in the future.
The Counsellors put the children at the heart of their care and support them to deal with personal challenges, including loss, bereavement and anger and assist parents to make changes at home to routines or behaviours to achieve calm and consistent parenting therefore helping children to feel secure and effect an improvement in the child’s behaviour. The Counsellor will work with children to help increase their aspirations and goals to help them remove obstacles and achieve their full potential.
The Counsellor’s work with the child over an 8 week period, providing up to eight 1:1 counselling sessions along with Family Therapeutic work, Behaviour Management and Art Therapy. Children achieve an improvement of their understanding and managing emotions, through examining and exploring thoughts, feelings and behaviours, recognising issues and making changes. Counselling enables children to recognise problems that they have dealt with in the past and utilise and build on those skills to help manage themselves and their families in the future.
The Counsellors put the children at the heart of their care and support them to deal with personal challenges, including loss, bereavement and anger and assist parents to make changes at home to routines or behaviours to achieve calm and consistent parenting therefore helping children to feel secure and effect an improvement in the child’s behaviour. The Counsellor will work with children to help increase their aspirations and goals to help them remove obstacles and achieve their full potential.
Feedback and Quotes:
87% of Children Found Counselling Helpful
74% of Children Felt Better After Counselling
100% of Children Felt They Could Trust Their Counsellor
91% of Children Would Recommend Counselling To Their Friends
'The counselling my daughter had was amazing. The Counsellor has such a wonderful manner with children. She was clear, age appropriate and understanding giving my daughter definite strategies to deal with her anxieties which hopefully she will use as tools throughout her life. We felt at ease and held by her during the process. Thank you very much'.
'I can’t praise the counsellor highly enough as she has helped my child a lot and it has helped me understand him a lot better'.
'The role play really helped me think about things differently. I feel more positive about my future now. Teachers have told me how well I am doing which has made me feel more confident'.
“Before Counselling I didn’t tell my worries to anyone but now I can tell my family, teacher and counsellor"
“Counselling makes me feel happy and comfortable to be able to talk to someone, it relaxes my mind”
Our Current Team Of Counsellors:
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Tendring Families First Schools can download a referral form to access Counselling support click here: counselling__referral_form_feb_23.docx
Completed Signed referrals should then be emailed VIA EGRESS SWITCH to [email protected]
To access the Counsellors Compliance Quality Assurance Document, with details of all DBS numbers, Professional Registration etc. Please Contact - [email protected]
Completed Signed referrals should then be emailed VIA EGRESS SWITCH to [email protected]
To access the Counsellors Compliance Quality Assurance Document, with details of all DBS numbers, Professional Registration etc. Please Contact - [email protected]