Services
Psychology Unlimited offers a range of tailored services to meet your needs, address your concerns and strive for your goals.
Educational Psychologists (EPs) look at how children and young people think, learn, feel, behave and interact in the context of their environment. We work collaboratively with school staff, parents and other professionals to promote the learning, development and well-being of children aged 0-19 (and sometimes up to 25) through the application of psychology.
Whether you know exactly what you are looking for or you need some help to figure it out, get in touch to find out what we can do for you. You may be surprised at the number of options available.
Here is just a small selection of the ways Psychology Unlimited has supported parents, schools and other organisations with a wide variety of services at the individual, group and organisational level.
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“The pressure of exams is getting out of hand – what can we do?”
“I can’t tell if my child just needs firmer boundaries or if there is an underlying reason why they are behaving this way. Help!”
“We are welcoming an increasing number of children with English as an additional language – how can we adapt as a school?”
“My child has identified needs and the school are doing great – but what can I do at home?”
Group
- Setting up a circle of friends or social skills group.
- Facilitating restorative justice approaches to reduce bullying and raise empathy.
- Delivering attribution re-training sessions to change attitudes about ability to learn.
- Supporting staff to run groups to raise self-esteem and promote resilience.
- Introducing peer to peer problem-solving so that staff are more empowered and therefore more effective.
- Creating a childminders network group at the local children’s centre to support problem-solving and strategy sharing.
Individual
- Individual work (assessments and interventions) with a child or young person to target particular concerns or identify needs.
- Joint assessments with other professionals (with their consent, e.g. speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists) to ensure needs are met holistically.
- Empowering parents to manage tricky meetings at school.
- Empowering school staff to manage tricky meetings with parents!
- One-off or drop-in consultations for parents and/or school staff.
- Supporting a newly qualified teacher to understand and manage a child with additional needs.
“My class is out of control – I’ve tried everything, but nothing works anymore. How can I get back on track?”
“We have a group of really disengaged girls that is causing havoc in nearly every class they attend – we need to find a way to get through to them.”
Areas of Need
- Self-esteem
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Behaviour
- Learning
- Academic progress
- Social skills
- Language
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Memory
- Attention
- Bullying
- Managing emotions
- Resilience
- Motivation
- Trauma
- Transition
“Everything I say just seems to go in one ear and out the other. Is he deliberately ignoring me or is there something else going on?”
“My child comes home from school in a terrible mood, but won’t tell me what happened. I wish I could be a fly on the wall…”
Organisational
- Developing school behaviour or anti-bullying policies.
- Setting up a transition programme, so that new pupils have positive first experiences.
- Research and evaluation projects, including demonstrating outcomes to Ofsted, (UK government office for standards in education, children's services and skills), e.g. measuring the effectiveness of a new literacy initiative or a new strategy to record progress of two-year-olds attending a children’s centre.
- Supporting staff well-being and cohesion.
- Providing professional supervision to senior leaders and head teachers.
- Building staff capacity through training courses and workshops, e.g. training to midday supervisors on supporting social skills in the playground.
