About the Psychology and Therapeutic Service

We are an experienced team of Educational Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Inclusion Facilitators who work across Suffolk.

View a list of team members and their One Page Profiles.

Our team are specialists working within the fields of trauma, attachment, adoption, youth justice, neurodiversity, Family Systemic Psychotherapy, Human Givens Therapy, Video Interaction Guidance (VIG), Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), supervision, barriers to attendance, and sleep. 

Our involvement supports learning, mental health and wellbeing, and behaviour of children and young people in Suffolk on an individual, group and whole school or organisational basis. We are part of the Suffolk Local Offer.

When we work with children, young people, their families and settings we do so by operationalising our core guiding principles of being:

• Person-centred
• Solution-oriented
• Strengths based
• Trauma-informed

We promote and encourage inclusive practice and effective ways of working that leads to improved outcomes for children and young people, and families through our work in the following areas:

• Consultation
• Assessment
• Evidence-based intervention and therapeutic support
• Training
• Research and developmental projects

Our team work with you in different ways, including face-to-face, over the phone and using video calls. In recent years we have developed new ways of working, including greater use of digital tools such as virtual consultation and assessment in addition to our in person offer. We seek feedback and continually review how we work in order to further develop our service offer that includes face to face, digital and hybrid working (in other words a mixture of both).

For more information about anything detailed on our webpages, including how education professionals can make a referral, please email the Psychology and Therapeutic Services team at psychology&therapeuticservices@suffolk.gov.uk. 

Our core offer and our work as part of Suffolk’s CYP Inclusion Service includes:

• Delivering services as part of the Graduated Response to SEND and SEND Strategy. 
• Supporting the SENCO, Teaching Assistant and Education Mental Health Lead Networks, delivering training and contribution towards the SENCO Support Line.
• Psychological statutory advice as part of the Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) process.
• Contributing toward statutory processes such as Annual Reviews or Tribunals.
• Critical Incident Support.
• Partnership working with the Virtual School, Adoption and the Youth Justice Service.

Please note: our core offer means there is no cost to education settings.

Schools and settings

Education settings can purchase traded Psychology & Therapeutic Services via the Schools Choice Marketplace Portal.

We encourage settings wishing to have traded input from P&TS to explore the variety of activities available via the Graduated Response and then plan their traded service delivery around our core (free at the point of delivery) offer.

Our traded offer includes: 

• Traded packages.
• EP Analysis of Additional Needs (AANT)
• Additional Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) Supervision
• Trauma Informed Care and Trauma Responsive Practice