Many of the children and young people we support have lived through significant early adversity. These experiences can shape how they see themselves and others, influence their relationships, and contribute to trauma responses, attachment difficulties, emotional distress, and high-risk behaviours. Without appropriate support, young people may face increased challenges in adolescence and adulthood, including harm to themselves or others.
Our Specialist Therapeutic Psychology Service brings together clinical psychology, forensic psychology, psychotherapy, and therapeutic practitioners. This multidisciplinary team provides a coordinated, trauma-informed approach to understanding needs, reducing risk, and promoting healing. Our aim is to help young people build safer relationships, develop healthier coping strategies, and move towards hopeful and resilient futures.
Our team of in-house psychologists and therapeutic practitioners support the development of all staff as trauma-informed practitioners, helping every child experience a safe, healing, and therapeutic journey at Pebbles Care.
At Pebbles Care, our work is grounded in a deep commitment to providing trauma-informed, compassionate, and developmentally attuned therapeutic care. Central to this commitment is our fully embedded and integrated psychological therapy service — a service shaped by an understanding of how developmental trauma impacts the wellbeing, relationships, and day-to-day functioning of children and young people.
Our diverse and highly skilled Psychology Team is dedicated to helping young people heal, grow, and thrive within safe, nurturing, and supportive environments. When specific areas of need are identified, our team develops tailored support packages. These may involve direct work with the young person or consultation and guidance to help care teams meet their needs effectively and consistently.
Therapeutic care is at the core of Pebbles Care, and our Psychology Team plays a vital role in embedding this approach throughout the organisation. Our vision is clear: to ensure that trauma-informed, psychologically informed practice is integrated into every aspect of the service — from frontline care to organisational strategy.
To achieve this, we bring together a multidisciplinary team with wide-ranging expertise, qualifications, and professional backgrounds. This breadth enables us to deliver truly holistic care to children and young people with complex and varied needs.
We are proud to include:
Our Psychology Team works closely with residential care teams, education staff, and managers to provide consultation, reflective practice, and tailored support. This partnership approach strengthens each home’s capacity to provide safe, nurturing, and therapeutically informed care.
Faye is a Clinical Psychologist with a wealth of experience working in health and social care settings, especially with care experienced children. She is trained in DDP Level 1 and 2, EMDR, CBT and is an accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist. She uses various therapeutic models in practice including DBT and systemic therapy.
We recognise that many of the young people we support have faced significant trauma, loss, and adversity. Our approach is therefore grounded in trauma-informed principles — safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity.
By integrating evidence-based psychological practice with a compassionate understanding of each young person’s experiences, we aim to help them:
Our goal is not only to reduce distress but to promote growth, resilience, and long-term wellbeing.
At Pebbles, we believe that effective therapeutic care begins with a compassionate and evidence-based understanding of each young person’s story. This includes recognising the role that trauma can play in shaping behaviour, emotional responses, and ways of relating to others.
When a child or young person joins Pebbles, our team works collaboratively with their home to complete a trauma-informed psychological formulation using the 5 P’s model. This process helps us understand not just what is happening, but why — considering past adversity, survival strategies, unmet needs, and sources of safety and strength.
A trauma-informed formulation supports us to:
interpret behaviours through a lens of understanding rather than blame identify underlying needs, triggers, and vulnerabilities tailor interventions that support regulation, connection, and recovery ensure that our care environment promotes safety, predictability, and empowerment
It becomes a shared framework that guides therapeutic planning and everyday care.
