Trauma Therapy by Trish
Award Winning Emotional Wellbeing & Educational Support Services
Spotlight on School Services
I am pleased to offer a growing range of services for Schools
I am based in Coventry, no additional cost for CV1-CV8 postcodes; beyond this, Travel costs will be added. I can travel throughout Coventry, Warwickshire & surrounding areas.
As an Advanced Drawing & Talking Practitioner I can offer a range of techniques on a 1-2-1 and group basis to support Emotional Wellbeing, for pupils & staff.
As a Level 3 qualified former Teaching Assistant I can offer short to medium term, temporary and bespoke solutions to some academic needs in Primary Schools.
Great Value for Money
Since Trauma Therapy by Trish began in 2022, standard D&T prices remain lower than the RRP for schools, and multiple booking discounts apply!
EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNTS are always available for previous school clients
INTRODUCTORY DISCOUNTS are available for first-time school clients
DIARY FILLER DISCOUNTS may be available too
NEW for Summer 2025
Transition Support for Secondary Schools
Designed to support the most vulnerable of your new students, enabling CONNECTION with staff and peers whilst building Emotional Literacy & Resilience.
Emotional Wellbeing Support in Schools
1-2-1 Therapeutic Interventions
These Drawing & Talking techniques are 12-week programmes that support pupils and staff to process emotional trauma and anxiety. They can be funded via individual EHCP budgets, general SEND budgets, Pupil Premium Funding or specific Mental Health budgets. It is important to realise the potential wellbeing and academic benefit to a whole class or year group from providing the right support to the right child, in addition to the life-enhancing benefits to the individual child.
Group Work
These Drawing & Talking techniques are booked in half-term blocks of 5-8 weeks, they help to develop emotional literacy and resilience. As group activities, they also help practice communication skills, turn-taking and team work, but unlike some other team tasks, there are no winners or losers and there is no right or wrong answer. Respect and Empathy underpin this work.
1-2-1 D&T (paper & pencil)
30 minutes each week, for 12 weeks
Suitable Age 5+
Each session the client is given a clean sheet of paper and a pencil. They can draw whatever they like & talk about whatever they like. At the end of each session the drawing is placed in the client's individual folder and is kept safe by the practitioner.
Research has shown that traumatic memories are stored in parts of the brain not directly reached by talking alone. Drawing allows the deeper part of the brain to be involved, especially the right-hand side of the brain where powerful emotional memories are stored visually.
1-2-1 D&T (sand tray)
30 minutes each week, for 12 weeks
Suitable Age 4+
Each session the client will be able to select from a range of items to play in the sand tray with. At the end of the session a photograph of the final sandworld scene is taken and placed in the client's individual folder and is kept safe by the practitioner.
This variation to the D&T activity may be more suitable for younger children, or those who struggle to sit still and draw. It is also suitable for adults, as they may find reaching into the fantasy easier with the sand tray rather than a drawing.
Where a client is old enough to express a preference between sand or paper, this would usually be honoured.
D&T Emotions Discovery
45-60 minutes each week, half term blocks (5-8 weeks)
Group size 6-12 pupils
Suitable Age 5+ (can be mixed age groups)
Each week we will discover a different emotion.
Unlike the 1-2-1 work, in these sessions we do the talking first, then the drawing. Artwork is placed in individual folders at the end of each session and kept safe by the practitioner.
This technique helps participants to;
- become more aware of their own feelings
- develop an understanding of how to handle those feelings
- share feelings with others. and see that others experience them too
- communicate those feelings and concerns
- express the feelings symbolically through drawing
D&T Directed Group Work
45-60 minutes each week, half term blocks (5-8 weeks) Group size 3-30* pupils
Suitable Age 5+ (can be mixed age groups)
These sessions follow a journey throughout the programme.
Participants develop empathy & listening skills, they form a therapeutic alliance with each other & gradually develop independence (as a group) during the sessions due to the predictable structure. Each week the artwork is placed in individual folders and kept safe by the practitioner.
This particular group work encourages teamwork and may be useful for groups or classes that have not gelled as much as expected.
* Full class sessions must be accompanied by a school TA due to numbers, the staff member should take part in the session.