Trauma-Informed Occupational Therapy
I am a registered practitioner with TIS-UK, having completed a Diploma in Trauma-Informed Schools and Communities, and access regular supervision to maintain this
When you learn more about trauma, you realise just how many people have experienced trauma within their lives. Some people differentiate between Big T Trauma and little t trauma. But trauma is trauma. And it affects everyone it happens to.
I do not target the root causes and memories of trauma, and would direct anyone looking to this to a professional trained in evidence-based techniques and practices to do this (e.g. EMDR).
However, if trauma is affecting your teen's day to day life, or indeed if they need general support with managing daily life generally at the moment but trauma is a part of their history, please read below or get in touch to find out how Occupational Therapy can help support with this.
Assessment
All Occupational Therapy starts with an assessment, for the therapist to get a good overview of what's going on for the person, and their goals and needs.
This may look like:
Consultation Assessment - £195 :
if much of the information can be gathered from the person (recommended for 12+ years old, and adult).
Comprehensive Assessment - £550 :
if for a younger child and/or if a full assessment report will be needed.
Enhanced Assessment - £695:
if the assessment and report is needed to contribute to an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Individual support
Regardless of the need and piece of work, session packages will follow the same format:
At the assessment stage, a suggested block of sessions will be recommended to achieve the work identified.
This number may change depending on the progress within sessions - sometimes fewer sessions are needed, sometimes more.
Each block of sessions will be different depending on the person's needs, but there will be common themes running through each one, which are:
What makes me 'me'
My life now - strengths, challenges, goals
My personal toolkit and plan
Sessions are weekly or, sometimes, fortnightly.
They allow for up to an hour with the individual, with up to 15 minutes for discussion or feedback to the parent/carer if appropriate.
Sessions are £95, inclusive of all additional resources, work and support outside of the sessions.
Support for families
Especially when working with young people, the adults around them count as a huge part of their support network, and as such it is important that they are supported too.
This is exactly the same regardless of whether the young person is with their birth family, or looked after (adopted or in foster care).
I do this by offering two consultations with the parent/carer, as well as giving them access to my growing series of audios for parents of teenagers on a range of issues from normal teenage development to issues such as anxiety, along with a series on supporting the parent to reflect and look after themselves as well as possible too.
When I work with a young person, all of this is included in the session price and is not extra.
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