School Therapy

The psychological therapies team works across both La Passerelle Primary and Secondary schools.

Our therapeutic goals are to provide a containing space for the young person's anxieties, for them to come to rely on their weekly space to think, create and attempt to process their thoughts and feelings. Our aim is to help make sense of their inner world by allowing and promoting the growing capacity to play and think with us using a range of art forms that each unique child and young person is drawn to. Our aim is to help the child and young person to be aware of all their feelings, to think about them and talk about them (observe, think, talk).

Esther’s approach is humanistic and psychodynamic. The focus of therapy in a psychodynamic model is towards resolution & development of insight into conflicted ways of being that may be rooted in past experiences. Humanism emphasises a belief that each person contains the potential and desire for growth as an inherent predisposition (Maslow, 1968).

Jane’s work specialises in using the arts and play to reach children and young people and uses a range of clinical techniques specifically aimed at treating children and adolescents. Jane’s therapeutic work centres around finding ways to help the child communicate difficult (yet most likely unconscious) thoughts and feelings. As an Integrative therapist, Jane draws on a range of theoretical concepts, predominantly Object Relations, Attachment theory, Neuroscience and Trauma theory.

Katie works alongside the young person to build a positive, honest and safe relationship, encouraging curiosity and reflection.  Counselling can enable someone to gain a better understanding of themselves and the situations facing them and to develop coping strategies.