Training, Consultancy & Speaking
For Activity Providers, Venues & Family-Focused Businesses
Embed child wellbeing expertise into your setting with flexible online and in-person options from Zara and The Children's Psychology Hub team
Professional Services
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Training
CPD sessions for schools, organisations, and children's services on children's mental health and family wellbeing
Available as:
• Half-day workshops (3 hours)
• Full-day INSET (6 hours)
• Multi-session programmes
• Parent workshops
• Online or in-person throughout UK
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Consultancy
Strategic guidance for developing mental health approaches, policies, and services that actually work
Support with:
• Whole-school strategy
• Policy development
• SEND provision
• Complex cases
• Programme evaluation
• Staff wellbeing
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Speaking
Engaging keynote presentations that challenge thinking and provide practical frameworks
Perfect for:
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• Educational conferences
• Health & social care events
• CPD days
• Safeguarding partnerships
• Multi-agency training
Training Topics
Suitable for: Schools, academies, early years settings, youth organizations, children's activity providers and franchises, local authorities, health services, and charities working with children and families.
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All training is contextually tailored to your organisation's specific needs, staff experience levels, and real-world challenges
Supporting Parent-Carers
Understanding parent-carer burnout, building effective partnerships with exhausted families, and avoiding unintentional harm in professional interactions. Practical strategies for working with SEND families under pressure.
Glass Child Experiences
Understanding siblings of children with additional needs or chronic illness - the invisible children who often get overlooked in family systems and how schools and organizations can support them.
Family Burnout
Recognizing the signs of family system burnout, understanding what families are really managing, and supporting without adding to their burden.
Bereavement & Loss
Supporting grieving children and families, navigating conversations about death and loss, and creating compassionate organizational responses to bereavement.
Refugee & Displaced Families
Understanding forced migration experiences, supporting integration and belonging, and creating culturally responsive practice for displaced children and families.
Emotional Regulation
Understanding co-regulation, supporting children with big feelings, and creating environments that support emotional development and self-regulation.
Compassion Fatigue
Recognizing secondary trauma and vicarious trauma in professionals, protecting staff wellbeing when working with trauma and complex cases, and building sustainable approaches.
Creative Parent Engagement
Practical strategies for meaningful parent engagement that works for families under pressure - not just traditional approaches that add burden to already exhausted parents.
Rethinking Therapy
Challenging therapeutic conventions and rigid clinical models. Connection and healing through authentic relationships - whether that's throwing a ball or meeting young people in their world.
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Consultancy Services
Strategic support for building capacity and creating sustainable change - not just documents that sit on shelves
Whole-School Wellbeing
Developing coherent, sustainable mental health strategies that work for your school context rather than adding unsustainable workload to already stretched staff.
Policy Development
Creating policies that are practical, ethical, and actually implementable - grounded in what works rather than what looks good on paper.
SEND & Inclusion
Strategic guidance on supporting children with additional needs and building genuine partnerships with families experiencing exhaustion and system battles.
Complex Cases
Consultation on individual situations where you need psychological insight and guidance on best approaches when standard frameworks don't fit.
Programme Evaluation
Assessing what's working, what isn't, and how to develop or refine your mental health and wellbeing programmes with honest, constructive feedback.
Staff Wellbeing
Supporting organizations to protect staff mental health when working with vulnerable children and families - addressing compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
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Speaking & Keynotes
Engaging presentations that combine rigorous research with lived experience and practical insight
Conference Topics Include:
• Supporting marginalised and vulnerable families
• Parent-carer burnout and professional partnership
• Refugee and displaced children's mental health
• Glass child experiences and sibling support
• Bereavement in childhood
• Rethinking therapeutic relationships with children
• Inclusive practice and equity
What to Expect
45-90 minute presentations that challenge assumptions while providing practical frameworks.
Research-informed content delivered authentically, grounded in lived experience.
Relevant for multi-disciplinary audiences.
Engaging delivery that energises delegates rather than overwhelming them.
Perfect For
•Children's Franchises
• Health and social care conferences
• Safeguarding partnership events
• Third sector conferences
• Multi-agency training days
• INSET keynotes for school groups
• University and professional training events