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Drawing and Talking empowers children's services teams to respond to children and young people with additional or complex mental health needs, who aren’t currently receiving support from specialist mental health services.

The attachment-based intervention is playful in practice but serious in solutions.

Whether you're a Social Worker, Family Support Worker, Residential Childcare Worker or work within the Virtual School or Youth Justice Services, whoever you are, you can train up the be a Drawing and Talking Practitioner and provide children and young people with access to this work and their inner world as part of your direct work.

The formation of secure attachments creates a secure base for children and young people to not only explore but also seek emotional guidance from, which is particularly powerful as in many cases this will not already exist, and likely not at the deep level that Drawing and Talking facilitates.

The creation of safe spaces allows children and young people who access Drawing and Talking the opportunity to feel that world can be and is a safe space for them. The unique skills and set up taught on the foundation course equips practitioners with the skills needed to facilitate this, which can lead the stronger and longer lasting positive feelings towards the others and potentially help where engagement is a pre-existing concern.

The combination of secure attachments and safe spaces that Drawing and Talking can create for children and young people can facilitate internal processing of pain or trauma. This is not cognitive or logic based work. Support staff are often sent to support the same children and young people again and again, frequently with little to no success. Despite being simple to deliver, Drawing and Talking can influence the way the brain’s neural pathways and body’s nervous system operate and respond, creating lasting effects. It’s not magic, just human connection.

Transform your settings approach to supporting children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing by implementing our unique attachment-based intervention.