Therapeutic parenting groups
Guidance for carers and professionals to nurture, heal, and support children's needs.
While direct therapeutic intervention can help, real impact often comes when those who care for children—foster carers, social workers, teachers—are supported too.
Our therapeutic groups empower carers and professionals to make a difference. Take a look at how we could help.
The Attachment Group
This group programme, inspired by Kim Golding’s Foundations for Attachment, is designed to help foster carers feel more confident in using therapeutic parenting. Through a mix of group reflection, discussion, and practical activities, carers explore how developmental trauma affects children and how to respond in ways that build trust and connection.
Over six sessions, carers dive into topics like attachment styles, the impact of trauma and shame, and the principles of therapeutic parenting—especially using PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy).
Find out our upcoming dates and locations below:
RE-Play (TBC)
Connection through play!
More information to be added in due course about a newly developed group therapeutic parenting intervention.
TBC
Intro to Trauma, Attachment & Therapeutic Parenting
This in-person training programme offers a trauma-informed approach to understanding the emotional and behavioural needs of children and young people. It explores how early experiences of neglect, inconsistent caregiving, and relational traumas affect attachment, brain development, and a child’s sense of safety.
- Attachment styles and the impact of developmental trauma
- Therapeutic parenting using the PACE model: Play, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy
- Understanding shame and its influence on behaviour
- The 'Window of Tolerance' and strategies for co-regulation
- The 'Two Hands of Parenting': combining nurturing care with safe, non-punitive boundaries
This training equips caregivers and professionals with practical tools to support healing, build trust, and foster secure relationships with children and young people who have experienced trauma.
Visit our training page for more information, upcoming dates and to register your interest.
Therapeutic Parenting with PACE Training Programme
Currently this programme not included within the new 2025 service model, but is available for spot purchase by individual provisions.
This programme provides a series of monthly half-day training sessions can be provided for groups of supervising social workers, residential care workers or foster carers.
The goal of this is to build confidence and skills for therapeutic parents, recognising the challenges they may face in doing this.
From January 2026 we will be launching a new way to sustain reflective and trauma informed practices across a broader reach in Derby and Derbyshire.
For more information visit: Reflective Practice: our RELATE approach