Consultation and Reflective Practice Groups
Consultation or Reflective Practice Groups can provide professionals with a space to explore and reflect upon their work with children and families allowing time to think through difficulties. They can be offered to an individual, a group of professionals or to a staff team or organisation.
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Consultations
Consultations can be offered on a one-off basis or may form part of a wider package of support for a child or family, appointments could include both professionals and carers and will often focus on a specific area of difficulty, these may include:
- Reflecting on ‘stuck’ cases and how to move practice forward
- Making sense of hard to manage or risky behaviour
- Understanding attachment and relationship needs
- Developing empathetic behaviour management skills
- Reflecting on attachment needs during placement matching
- Formulating together a psychological understanding of a child you are working with
Pricing
Individual consultations from £150 per hour
Group (3+) consultations from £175 per hour
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Reflective Practice
We are happy to create bespoke Reflective Practice packages for any proffesional groups working with children with attachment needs or complex developmental trauma. These can be offered both in person or online.
All Reflective Practice support is underpinned by the therapeutic approaches of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and PACE. Sessions are structured and based on recognised models of Reflective Practice, including Gibb's Reflective Cycle, Kolb's Eperiential Learning and Kurtz's Intersubjective Model of Reflective Practice Groups.
Residential Staff Support
Specialist packages of consultation or reflective practice can be designed for residential staff teams. These have proven beneficial in increasing the therapeutic understanding within the home and the empathy and understanding that staff have for the children in their care.
Management Team Reflective Practice
We also provide support to management teams looking to improve the therapeutic practices across their services and staffing groups. This can be particularly effective in supporting services to grow their therapeutic knowledge and increase understanding around team dynamics and staff motivation.
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP)
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP) can also be offered to staff teams wishing to reflect in more depth on their practice.
VERP is a strengths-based approach to professional development based on relationship building and the awareness of attuned interactions. VERP was initially created using the principles and beliefs of Video Interactive Guidance (VIG). VERP uses video content to focus on the positive aspects and attunemnt in interactions within the workplace. (Kennedy& Landor, 2015).
"What sets Laura apart is her ability to cultivate a sense of cohesion within our Management Reflective Practice sessions. Laura is adept at bringing in teamwork, enabling us to see the importance of collaboration in our work. Laura's diverse background provides us with multiple perspectives, enriching our discussions and broadening our understanding of each other’s roles, and the interconnection. I now approach work with renewed energy and resilience, ready to face challenges head-on. I wholeheartedly recommend Laura to anyone seeking a compassionate supervisor for individuals, and employers seeking team sessions for their employees to support their journey towards discovery and growth!"
Wellbeing Services and Practice Development Director, Oct 2024
Pricing
Reflective practice groups (maximum of 8 participants) from £175 per hour.
VERP cycle (recording, video editing and feedback session) £395 per cycle.
Supervision
Clinical supervision is an essential tool when working with complex children and families and aids child focused decision making. Supervision can provide a space to reflect on practice and think through emotive and difficult situations.
Supervision provides time to consider our own needs and process the sometimes painful emotions that work with this client group can elicit. Making time for supervision can allow us to provide better, more effective services for the children and families we support.
At Oasis Psychology, we provide supervision for a range of professionals working with complex children and young people. We use a DDP informed model to be curious about the needs of children and young people and empathise with their needs. There can be space in supervision for formulation, for reflection and for moving cases forward.
Clinical Supervision
One-to-one supervision can be provided to any professional working with children with attachment needs or developmental trauma.
We are also able to offer supervision to groups of professionals either working using the therpeutic models or working together with families.
Supervision sessions are underpinned by Attachment Theory, DDP, and Cognitive Analytic Approaches.
Supervision can be tailored to suits the needs of the professional and can be offered face to face or online.
Trauma Informed Schools Supervision
Dr Laura Bennett is an approved Trauma Informed Schools Supervisor and able to provide supervision to Trauma Informed Practitioners working across a rnage of educational settings.
Schools can be frightening places for children with attachment needs and trauma histories. Laura believes that children are more likely to be successful in education when the educational approach is relationship based and allows children the opportunity to feel safe and secure.
Pricing
Individual supervision from £150 per hour
Group supervision (maximum of 8 people) from £175 per hour
