Registration no : 2606467
Our Approach
Working with young people on the edge of potential
There are often conflicts and difficulties at a young person’s edges, that when explored with awareness and creativity, become the seed of their potential.
The Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service works to enhance the wellbeing of children and families through providing specialist and creative therapies, therapeutic mentoring, and nature-based farm wellbeing activities. We work with children and adolescents (up to 25 years old) with complex life circumstances - as is common in adoption, fostering, residential care, special guardianship, care arrangement orders, and children with special educational needs, disabilities (SEND) and those struggling with mainstream education.
We provide therapeutic support and therapeutic mentoring funded and referred to us by local authority adoption support services, children’s services and education teams.
We are deeply aware of an increasing need for therapeutic support for young people at this time. We are unfortunately not able to receive private referrals. However we are working to fund specific projects for the wellbeing of young people and families in the local community.
About Our Services
The Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service for Children and Families offers assessments and specialist interventions for children, young people, and families with complex needs. We also provide less intensive care farm approaches to wellbeing.
We provide therapeutic support and therapeutic mentoring funded and referred to us by local authority adoption support services, children’s services and education teams.
We are deeply aware of an increasing need for therapeutic support for young people at this time. We are unfortunately not able to receive private referrals. However we are working to fund specific projects for the wellbeing of young people and families in the local community.
The Apricot Centre wellbeing teams are based in Devon and East Anglia. We have a team approach and work with practitioners with a broad range of skills and experience to deliver high quality therapies and support. We have:
Clinical Psychology
Process Oriented Psychology
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Creative Psychotherapies (Art, Music, Drama, Movement/Embodied)
Dietitian / Food and Mood
Counselling
Therapeutic Mentoring
Our staff aim to put you at ease. We want to make sure you are safe, listened to, and understood. We don’t want you to feel judged or ‘less than’ for your difficulties. We will work with you and your support networks towards your wellbeing.
Therapies & Assessments
The Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service offers support to children, young people, families. We provide therapeutic support and therapeutic mentoring funded and referred to us by local authority adoption support services, children’s services and education teams.
We are deeply aware of an increasing need for therapeutic support for young people at this time. We are unfortunately not able to receive private referrals. However we are working to fund specific projects for the wellbeing of young people and families in the local community.
The therapies and assessments below are available in different regions in which we work. Please see our ‘Meet the Core Team & Practitioners’ page for details about specific thera`pists and areas in which they work.
Specialist Court Assessments
Clinical Psychology Consultations
Specialist Therapeutic Interventions
Play Therapy
Somatic Movement Therapy
Attachment Focussed Therapies
Relationship Work - Couples, parents, siblings
Family Therapy - Family work
Enhanced Family and Foster Carers Support – Holistic/wraparound approach
Children's Homes Consultations and Training
Schools - Consultations and Training - Relating to an individual child or general preventative support around developmental, trauma and attachment difficulties
Wraparound therapeutic support (preferably in partnership with carers, educationalists, corporate parents, social workers)