Our Therapeutic Support

Our multidisciplinary psychology team works closely with Care Teams, Area Managers, Registered Managers, and the Education Team to ensure every child receives consistent, trauma-informed therapeutic support. Our approach is grounded in psychological, systemic, and developmental principles that promote safety, recovery, and meaningful change.

We offer a tiered model of support designed to meet the needs of all young people in our care, from universal therapeutic input to specialist assessments and interventions.

Level 1: Core Therapeutic Care

All children and young people at Pebbles have access to a strong foundation of therapeutic support, which includes:

This core offer ensures that therapeutic understanding is embedded throughout each home, providing consistent, attachment- and trauma-informed care.

Level 2: Specialist Therapeutic Care - Enhanced Offer

For young people with additional or more complex needs, we can provide specialist input, including:

These interventions help us understand each young person’s experiences in depth and provide targeted support tailored to their unique profile of needs.

Our Range of Individualised Therapies

Our therapeutic provision is delivered by a diverse team including clinical psychologists, forensic psychologists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, trainee psychologists, and therapeutic practitioners. Team members are trained or qualified in delivering a wide range of evidence-based modalities, including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).

This range of therapies enables us to tailor interventions to each young person’s developmental stage, needs, strengths, and learning preferences.

R.’ story

R. joined Pebbles in 2023 and requested psychological therapy to manage her anger, harm towards others, and running away from home. Initially, we undertook psychoeducation on fight or flight responses and why these can occur. This included an understanding of physiological feelings as ‘messages’ of perceived threats.
We then undertook 18 sessions of ‘Zones of Regulation’, which helped R. identify emotions that contributed to her fight or flight reactions. We also worked on emotional regulation and distress tolerance strategies to manage these physiological and emotional responses.
Through this therapeutic journey, there has been a reduction in fight or flight responses, substantially reducing harm to others and running away from home.