Funding Boost To Extend Online Supports During Covid-19

We are delighted to share that we have received a funding boost from our project funder the National Lottery Community Fund. This funding will go towards developing two key pieces of therapeutic support to be delivered online, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Love & Rage – This funding boost will be used to develop our parenting programme ‘Love and Rage’ into an online programme for our parents. The Love and Rage programme is for parents who have adopted, and whose child is exhibiting highly aggressive (verbally or physically) behaviours. The programme aims to provide a safe place to share experience, learning and knowledge in understanding and supporting children. We hope to deliver this course online late March, early April 2021. For further information or to book a place please contact us. Places will be limited.

Parent self-care art and Dyadic art therapy – We are very excited to develop and pilot two new pieces of online therapeutic support through art. The first is a parent self-care art group. This will be delivered within a small group setting and will provide a much welcomed pause to reflect, create and share a space with like-minded people. Dyadic art therapy is a form of art therapy when parent and child attend the sessions together. This form of therapy can be exceptionally strengthening for the parent-child relationship as the parent learns to contain and support their child through the therapy sessions. No previous art experience is needed and we supply all the art materials needed.

Therapeutic Support During Covid

Therapeutic Support During Covid

TESSA Therapist

Registered Play Therapist, Social Worker & Sensory Practitioner

With over 12 years of experience dedicated to supporting children and families. My work focuses on helping children navigate emotional, developmental, and sensory challenges through a therapeutic and child-centered approach.

I am passionate about creating safe, nurturing spaces where children can express themselves, process experiences, and develop resilience. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with:

  • Children in mental health settings
  • Children in care
  • The asylum-seeking/ Refugee community
  • Confirmed & awaiting neurodivergent diagnoses
  • Developmental trauma
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Parents, caregivers, and multidisciplinary professionals
  • CAMHS Clinical experience

I am currently registered with:

  • Play Therapy UK (PTUK)
  • Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)

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Half-Term Therapeutic Children’s Music Group for TESSA Families

TESSA are delighted to offer this new pilot therapeutic music group to our families.

Neil Foster is an experienced music therapist and musician.

“This group is an opportunity for participants to connect, chat, and co-create their own musical sounds, games and playlists. We might use instruments that we already have, or see what music we can make from the objects around us at home. No prior musical experience or ability is required, and the group format will be relaxed, with an emphasis on having fun and getting to know each other through musical play.”

The sessions will be delivered every day over the half term break (Mon 15th, Tues 16th, Wed 17th, Thurs 18th and Fri 19th) from 10am – 10.40am, on Zoom.