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– Educational Psychology Support Offer
Staff Wellbeing Support
We provide targeted psychological wellbeing input for SENDCos, DSLs and SLT, supporting stress‑load management, emotional resilience, reflective leadership and sustainable safeguarding/SEND practice.
Reflective Space Sessions
Our safe, structured sessions enable staff to explore challenging situations, emotional responses and relational dynamics, strengthening psychologically informed practice.
Case Formulation & Joint Problem‑Solving via Consultation
Collaborative thinking with staff helps understand pupil needs, contextual factors and behaviour patterns, reducing uncertainty and supporting confident planning.
Professional Supervision
We offer supervision for SENDCos, DSLs, pastoral leads and SLT to support their wellbeing, reflective safeguarding practice and emotionally sustainable leadership.
Behaviour & Inclusion Coaching
Practical, psychologically informed guidance for staff managing complex behaviour, relational approaches and emotionally attuned responses.
EBSNA Consultation
Specialist support around emotionally based school avoidance, helping SENDCos and pastoral teams plan effective, compassionate interventions.
Whole‑School Wellbeing & Culture Development
We deliver support for staff wellbeing frameworks, as well as trauma-informed practice so they can offer a psychologically safe environment. We also work with families and multi-agency teams to support children who are looked after, adopted and children in need.
Executive Functioning
We can provide training and support for staff CPD, workshops for families, and group interventions supporting young people.
Support for Transitions
We offer targeted transition support, such as exam stress management, or preparing for next steps.
Training & CPD
We run bespoke sessions on trauma, attachment, SEND, behaviour, executive functioning, staff resilience and emotionally informed practice.
Dedicated support for school staff
Staff Consultations
We can meet with you either face-to-face or online and appointments are available from 8am to 7pm. We offer these extended hours so staff do not need to arrange cover teachers. The time can be used to discuss young people who they are concerned about, training/CPD and staff wellbeing.
Support for Staff Wellbeing
This can be as part of a group or one-to-one sessions, offering a protected space where staff can talk about how they are feeling and any issues that may be causing stress.
Education Surgery Sessions
We offer these as 3-hour sessions (6 x 30 minutes). Staff can sign up to a surgery session and talk about any issues
that they are concerned about. These sessions support the SENDCo and SLT by offering staff a protected space to
seek advice from an outside professional.
Informal Surgery Network Sessions
We can provide structured support for a group of professionals (usually SENDCos or SLT professionals). These sessions support SENDCo locality/cluster teams and networks.
Whole-School Training to Aid SEND Understanding
This can be run as a twilight session, half-day or full-day session. We can also offer some topics as 60-minute bitesize sessions.
Specific Staff Workshops
Including bespoke sessions for LSAs and TAs. Example sessions include Understanding and Hearing the Voice of Young People, Promoting Resilience, and Decreasing Anxiety & Stress.
Support for New Staff and Early Career Teachers (ECTs)
Including workshops on Demystifying Behaviour.
Further Training Sessions (see our CPD page)
Working with families
Coffee & Cake Workshops
For parents/carers. An EP will visit your school and run workshops on topics that help support the school community and build the relationships between home and school. Training/workshops for parents will help to support the notion that joint working helps to achieve the best outcome for their children. Example workshops could include:
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Understanding School Systems
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Helping with Homework.
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SEE – Self-Esteem Enhancement (How Parents Can Help)
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The Importance of Joined-Up Thinking
Drop-In Sessions for Parents
We run 30-minute meetings that parents can sign up to. The meetings give SENDCOs the opportunity to enable parents to seek advice from external professionals. The drop-ins can be organised as face-to-face or online sessions.
Student assessments
We use specific assessments to gauge and identify how people learn and their general abilities in specific areas. By using cognitive and learning assessments, we can help school staff, families and young people gain a comprehensive understanding of an individual’s learning profile and learning capacity.
Cognitive Assessments
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Give us detailed information on how a person learns best while identifying their strengths and difficulties.
Literacy Assessments
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Identify specific difficulties with literacy. Literacy assessments can include a reading, spelling, writing and/or comprehension assessment depending on the difficulties that a young person is experiencing.
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In combination with additional information provided by the young person’s education setting, they can help to identify a specific learning difficulty (such as dyslexia).
Numeracy Assessments
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Identify specific difficulties with numeracy. If the need is specific to only numeracy, then the assessment may indicative of dyscalculia.
Memory Assessments
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Memory ability impacts how we access instructions and carry out day-to-day tasks. We can assess and clarify a person’s memory profile, which will help in understanding how best to teach a young person in line with their strengths and learning profile.
Executive Functioning Assessments
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Executive functions are a set of mental skills you use in day-to-day life to help you get things done. Executive functions are controlled by the frontal lobes of the brain. Executive function helps us to manage time, pay attention, initiate and monitor tasks, switch focus, plan ahead and organise ourselves and our materials.
Group work for students
Six-Week Group Work Blocks
One hour a week over 6 weeks. These interventions are run by one of our Educational Psychologists or assistants. Topics can be made bespoke to your needs. Example sessions include:
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Exam stress
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Self-Esteem Enhancement (SEE)
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Circle of Friends Intervention.
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Building Resilience.