What does a session look like?
1:1 Drawing and Talking
A child accessing support will work one to one with Ms Taylor for 30 minutes, once a week, over 12 sessions.
Within the sessions, the child will draw anything they choose and will be encouraged to talk about what they have drawn using storytelling language to help them make sense of their internal world.
This technique is intended to allow the child to play, by drawing a picture, and process any emotions they are holding internally in a safe and non-confrontational way, working at their own pace.
Group Sessions
Group Work is a way of working which allows whole groups of children to come together and take part in group activities focusing around feelings and emotions. The Group Work Approach is different to Drawing and Talking because not everyone who takes part has Pain or Trauma that they need to process. Anyone can take part, and it is not Group Therapy. There is no Therapeutic Relationship formed in this work.
Group Work allows children to become more aware of the feeling states within them, develop some understanding of and how to handle the feelings, share their feelings with others and to express their feelings symbolically, in the form of Drawing.
Ms Taylor will meet with the Group, once a week for around 4-12 sessions, depending on the group.
All sessions remain confidential between your child and Ms Taylor, no notes are taken during the session. At the end of the 12 week period, and when your child is feeling better, the folder full of your child's drawings is handed back to your child for them to keep them as they wish.