For Professionals

At Nurture Psychology we have over 10 years experience of delivering the Nurturing Attachments Training (developed by Dr. Kim Golding, Clinical Psychologist) to adoptive parents, special guardian carers and foster carers.  

If you are interested in this training then please do get in touch so we can look at options for your team or carers.

Whether your team work in the front line safeguarding children or within bespoke teams such as fostering, complex safeguarding or short breaks we can offer on site training as a whole team.  

Training requests or packages have included: Attachment and developmental trauma - a whole system approach, Developmental trauma - supporting schools and families, Trauma informed working  - support for staff teams, Child development, mental wellbeing and Formulation workshops - understanding families and different ways forward

We complete full systemic psychological assessments to aid professionals to better understand the needs of the child/family you are working with, resulting in clear advice and recommendations.  Assessments and interventions can be directly commissioned by local authorities or via the Adoption Support Fund.  We are already a registered provider across the North West of England.  Please get in touch if you would like more information. 

Nurture Psychology offer 'one off' or a 'series' of consultations regarding children and young people you are working with.  We also offer other psychologists as well as non psychologist supervision sessions.

We regularly provide consultation and reflective staff support to colleagues in the residential care sector.  These consultations can focus on building the staff teams understanding of a child (formulation), support around making sense of incidents in the home, planning for children to move in or transitions out of the home as well as ongoing thinking around progress and the needs of the child.  We also provide reflective sessions for staff teams to think about their work and the impact on them professionally and personally.   

Nurture Psychology can support teams offering a reflective space in which to unpick and understand the impact of some of your work as a team.  Teams can include practices such as mindfulness as part of their sessions.  These groups are excellent for taking care of your work force's mental wellbeing.