Training and supervision

Our training courses and supervision can support you with a broad range of mental health expertise and provide varied opportunities for Continuing Professional Development.

Training

We can offer both face-to-face and online training from a psychoanalytic, trauma-informed perspective, tailored for you or your team.

Our established training portfolio for school staff covers:

Attachment (including specific training on learning disabilities)
Anxiety
Trauma

We also provide the workshops for children in school, on topics including:

Bullying
Friendships
Compromise
Transitions
Worries

We are happy to discuss your requirements and offer a bespoke service designed for your specific training needs.

The Bridge provides expert support to professionals working with vulnerable children, adults and families.

Supervision

Supervision provides a private and confidential space and time with an experienced clinician to reflect on practice and the issues in your work, especially those that are particularly challenging or difficult.

We work with professional individuals and groups from a wide range of front-line professions and sectors, including schools, statutory services, voluntary services and individual practitioners.

Supervision helps to regulate the stress involved in working in challenging environments and with vulnerable people, creating an opportunity to step back and consider the underlying dynamics, explore what the situation might be communicating about the needs of your client or colleague, and how to put this understanding to good use.

Some examples of situations where supervision can help are:

In exploring institutional and team dynamics
To have a space to explore the nature, structure and potential development/limitations of a role
For consultation, reflection and support to enable leaders to gain new perspectives
To facilitate communication between group members in large and small settings
To help contain difficult feelings brought up by working with vulnerable children, their families, and vulnerable adults
To work through and understand the meaning of children’s and adults’ behaviour
To promote understanding of children’s emotional development
In supporting people in leadership roles within the area of mental health work / working with children and families
To provide a space to think about therapeutic work.

Our competitive rates include discounted services for statutory and voluntary sector services.

What professionals say

“What was most helpful was learning about the different attachment styles, and what to say or do if you observe them in a child in class.”

“My supervision with The Bridge is a space to reflect about children, their needs and the impact of their needs/behaviour. It feels like a safety valve.”

“I wish I’d had supervision with The Bridge when I started this work. I would have really benefited from it. Working with people with complex trauma leaves you feeling emotionally drained. It’s good to have an outlet.”

Get in touch

Please get in touch if you have any requests regarding our services or questions.