Our work in schools

We believe in early intervention; counselling in schools can make an important contribution to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of young people.

Pupils experiencing stress or emotional difficulties find it difficult to reach their potential. Emotional support can make a significant difference. With the impact of COVID and the current cost of living crisis impacting families, we have noticed our children and young people presenting with more anxiety than ever before.

We currently work with several local schools who have commissioned us to provide one-to-one in-school counselling, meeting the children where they are.

Our team of therapists are experienced in working in the school setting and if you feel this is something that would be valuable to your school contact, mandy@tdut.org . We can discuss your needs and what we can provide, including costings.

What counselling can do:

🙂 Increase resilience

🙂 Enable children to talk about their feelings

🙂 Enable children to reach their potential

🙂 Explore the difficulties for children and young people around school: refusing/avoidance

🙂 Increase children and young people's understanding and ability to address their difficulties such as anxiety, low self-esteem, family difficulties or LGBTQA+ issues

🙂 Develop strategies to help children and young people to cope

🙂 Empower children and young people to be themselves

Staff are feeling increasingly overwhelmed, so to meet that need we have designed a package of support available to our schools including debrief sessions/individual one-off sessions, wellbeing groups or inset day training for staff on emotional wellbeing and trauma informed work in school.

Other Interventions offered by The Deborah Ubee Trust are:

💡 One-to-one counselling/play therapy

💡 Workshops for staff and or parents

💡 Inset day: trauma informed training for staff

💡 Debriefing support for teachers

💡 Various Workshops including: Anger, Friendships, Transitions, Loss and Grief, Worry / Anxiety.

In addition we offer a six week interactive creative arts group for children with ASD

If you would like more information, please contact mandy@tdut.org