Our services

Child Therapy:

• Is creative and highly skilled.
• Involves the head, heart and body. This is not talking therapy! 
• Understands child development – and we’ll use this knowledge to help you understand your child more. We’ll also help to strengthen areas that may be underdeveloped.     
• Involves playful ways of working through difficulties 
• Works towards an agreed goal and timescale for therapy 
• Is planned according to your child’s needs. Sometimes we’ll suggest individual therapy for your child and sometimes therapy for you and your child together.  
• Is neuro affirmative. We love a full range of wonderful brains! 

Just some of the additional areas of specialism within the team include:

• Recovery from child sexual abuse  
• Recovery from trauma, including specific trauma-processing therapies 
• Understanding of neurodevelopmental and learning differences  
• Gender identity 
• Parent-child attachment needs and therapies  
• Anxiety and school difficulties  
• Dissociation and dissociative disorders 
• Developmental trauma 

Therapy for Teens and Young Adults:

• Is shaped by each young person. We’re here to listen and support you, not tell you what to do. 
• Alternates creative, body-based and joyful activities to help us connect and feel safe, with times of talking or direct work to process difficult experiences.  
• May include developing a toolkit of coping strategies, tailored to you  
• Is based on the belief that teenagers and young adults are amazing! Adolescence and young adulthood are filled with possibility, inventiveness and brilliant ways of thinking about things. It’s also a time when everything gets turned upside down and may feel hard or confusing. We love building relationships with young people and understand the many changes taking place during this time.  
• Can include direct trauma processing elements if there is good enough support around you. 
• Is highly skilled and can help with all sorts of difficulties.

We support brilliant young people who may also be:

• • Struggling in relationships with parents or friends  
  • Questioning their gender or sexual identity 
  • Feeling different from everyone else 
  • Self-harming or struggling with anxiety 
  • Adopted or in care 
  • Wondering how to get out of abusive relationships 
  • The victims of abuse, assault or exploitation, or have suffered neglect when they were very young 
  • Struggling with dissociation, eating disorders or other complex issues 

Families Together:

• Is a safe space to work through problems 
• Is somewhere for every family member to feel understood and supported 
• Is accepting and non-judgemental: we know relationships are complex and life experiences can make it hard to be together at times. Whatever you’re experiencing, we’ll meet you there with compassion and tenacity. 
• Can involve specialist support for parents: we bring a depth of knowledge and experience that equips you to better understand and support your child or young person.  
• Focusses on strengthening connection between family members: We want family relationships to flourish. 
• Might include therapies that bring children or young people and parents together in sessions. 
• Is highly skilled and can help with all sorts of difficulties.

We support families who:  

• Have a child who is struggling with school 
• Have a young person who is trying hard to figure out who they are 
• Have family members that have experienced abuse or trauma 
• Have adopted or fostered children in their care 
• May feel like they just can’t ‘do this’ anymore 
• Want some guidance, advice and encouragement 
• Have children or young people who are neurodiverse and are struggling to fit into a ‘one size fits all’ mainstream system   
• Are experiencing dysregulated aggression from their child  
• Want things to change for the better  

The LCAT team is highly skilled and experienced – see Child Therapy for a list of specialisms within the team. 

Healing for Adults:

• Is an investment in your future. Many of us emerge into adulthood with psychological wounds, large and small. LCAT is a space for profound healing, not quick fixes. 
• Is integrative and relational: we blend body-based, creative and talking therapies to meet you where you are.  
• Offers understanding: we recognise the courage needed to seek support and honour the experiences that brought you here. You don’t have to navigate this alone. 
• Is adapted to your needs: therapy may include developing a personal toolkit of strategies to help you manage life’s challenges. 
• Is rooted in the complexities of adulthood: Responsibilities, relationships, and past experiences all shape us. We acknowledge your resilience and work at your pace. 
• Is trauma informed. This means we prioritise safety and relationships in every aspect of who we are and what we do: the way our spaces are set up; our collaborative approach; how we communicate at all stages; the focus on healthy nervous system regulation; how we listen and respond. Your needs and experiences matter.
• Can be trauma-focussed, when the time is right. We offer attachment and trauma-focused therapy, using EMDR amongst other therapies, to help you move past old wounds, experiences and beliefs. Though rooted in the past, these things still impact the present. We want you to experience the relief of working through painful issues. There is freedom and joy on the other side. 
• Is highly skilled and deeply supportive.

We work with adults with a wide range of experiences, including: 

• Challenges in relationships or family dynamics 
• Questions around identity, belonging, or past wounds 
• Anxiety, stress, or feelings of self-doubt 
• The lasting impact of childhood trauma or neglect 
• Healing from abuse, assault, or exploitation 
• Navigating complex experiences, such as dissociation or eating disorders 

Support for Clinicians and Leads:

Supervision is essential to sustainable practice. Whether you’re a psychotherapist, counsellor, social worker, or in a leadership role within a therapeutic service, our supervision offers space to reflect, process, and grow — professionally and personally. 

We provide clinical supervision and leadership supervision that is collaborative, integrative, and trauma-informed. Our approach draws on reflective practice, body-based methods, creative exploration, and systems thinking, tailored to your role and context. 

As a practitioner or service lead, you hold complexity — client stories, ethical tensions, emotional toil, organisational dynamics. Supervision is not just oversight — it’s support. A confidential space where you can explore what’s emerging in your work, without judgement or expectation. 

Our spaces are safe, non-judgemental, and responsive to your needs — whether you’re newly qualified or highly experienced. You don’t have to hold it all alone. 

We offer supervision to individuals and teams across: 

• • Psychotherapy and counselling services 
  • Adoption, fostering, and trauma-focused organisations 
  • CAMHS, third-sector, and community-based mental health services 
  • Therapeutic education and integrated care settings