Zero to Six

Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is for young children from birth through age five and their parents/caregivers. We can also work prenatally.  

• It is an an intervention model for children aged 0-5 who have experienced traumatic events and/or are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioural problems. 
• Helps families heal and grow after stressful experiences 
• Supports family strengths and relationships 
• Respects family and cultural values

Child Parent Psychotherapy supports and strengthens the parent-child relationship and provides a space for young children and parents/carers to work through stressful experiences and understand the child’s emotions and behaviours.

Therapeutic sessions include the child and parent or primary caregiver. If indicated, treatment may include multiple caregivers and/or siblings.

Treatment also focuses on wider factors that may affect the caregiver-child relationship (e.g. culture, finances, and immigration).  

Child Parent Psychotherapy is a culturally aware intervention, understanding cultural strengths as a source of protection and wisdom, whilst recognising ongoing and historical oppression and trauma.  

Child Parent Psychotherapy is an evidence-based intervention with growing recognition in UK policy and clinical guidance. Click here for more information on Child Parent Psychotherapy.

Circle of Security Parenting (COSP™) is provided in eight weekly sessions delivered remotely or in person. Parents/carers can choose to have this individually or as part of a group. Each session lasts approximately 90 minutes.   

• Using the Circle of Security Parenting Programme (COSP™) our trained facilitators work with parents and caregivers to help them to:
  Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs. 
• Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.
• Enhance the development of their child’s self-esteem. 
• Honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure. 

When difficult things happen, young children need parents and caregivers to help them:  

• Make sense of what their family went through 
• Know what they can expect in the future 
• Learn to cope with challenging negative emotions 

CPP can help when children or families have been through scary or painful events such as:

• Loss of a loved one 
• Separation 
• Serious medical procedures 
• Abuse or violence at home or in the community 
• Children show difficult behavior 
• Children have a change in placement or caregivers 
• Family members have physical health or mental health difficulties 
• Caregivers would like help with parenting and improving parent-child relationships 

This can include historical events that parents or carers have experienced, that are impacting in the present. 

Our narrative books are developmentally appropriate and co-produced with caregivers. They are books that explain difficult experiences to very young children, such as why they have come into care, why they might not see a parent, and traumatic events they have witnessed or experienced. We co-develop this narrative with you. It gives you and other key people a shared language that supports your child to understand and talk about their experience.  

We complete an assessment to inform the narrative book and make sure this is the right support for you and your child. We develop a shared understanding and approach with you, making this a therapeutically informed experience.