Life Story and Identity Support
LIFE STORY AND IDENTITY SUPPORT
Therapeutic Life Story enhances the child’s self esteem and self worth, promotes attachment and attunement and helps a child to develop a sense of security and permeance. It helps to link the past to the present and to help both the child and the family understand how earlier life events continue to impact on behaviour, often in an unconscious way.
The Roots of the Tree are the Branches of the future
For children who do not live with their family of origin or for those children and teens who may live within a kinship or family arrangement, it is important that they understand their past, in order to make sense of their present and move into the future with the knowledge and self belief that they are loveable, worthwhile and that their past guides do not dictate their future.
This is a journey that needs to be supported by all who have an interest and part to play in that child’s life. The model I use, although systemic in nature, offers an individual response to each child and is both fluid and creative in nature.
It is both trauma informed and relational and is paced in accordance with the child and teen, paying particular attention to issues of separation and loss with empathy and care.
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