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Understanding why children self-harm

Self-harm can be frightening and deeply confusing for parents, particularly foster and adoptive carers. This blog explores why some children and young people self-harm, reframing it as a coping strategy rooted in emotional pain, trauma, and unmet needs rather than attention-seeking. With a compassionate, trauma-informed lens, it helps carers understand what self-harm is communicating and how to respond with empathy, calm, and confidence.

The Assumptions We Carry as Foster and Adoptive Parents

When children have experienced trauma and loss, behaviour is rarely what it seems. This blog looks at the hidden assumptions we all make as foster and adoptive parents, why they matter, and how shifting from assumption to curiosity can support healing relationships.

How Foster Parents Can Navigate the Grief of Goodbye

Learn how to process grief, guilt, and self-doubt when a foster child moves on. Emotional tools and guidance from expert Dianne Sotomey.

Parenting Teenagers Therapeutically: A Trauma Informed Guide

Learn how to support teenagers with trauma-informed therapeutic parenting that builds trust, safety, and resilience. Join our two-day course.

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