A critical element of children’s healing is the care they receive from the adults around them. Our traumatised children have been hurt in their most important caring relationships, and in the same way, they will heal within the safety and security of attuned, loving and regulated care.

Many parents and carers, although skilled in parenting children, do not necessarily come equipped with the skills needed for parenting traumatised children. Carers will often express their frustration at the way the children in their care do not seem to respond to parenting strategies that have been very successful with other children.

Anima consulting offers coaching and support for foster and kinship carers around how to do ‘trauma informed’ parenting.

The philosophy of Anima is that once families and carers gain skills in successfully helping their child get calm, stay calm and be present, the child will slowly become more able to gain the skills to do this themselves.

At Anima therefore, we start by supporting and coaching the adults in a child’s life before moving onto working with the child.

Get in touch to find out more about whether Carer Coaching could be helpful for you.