Support For You and Your Family

Our expert and friendly team provide a range of lifelong therapeutic services to support out families.

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Who can access support?

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Adopted and fostered children and young people who may be experiencing challenges with identity, loss, or emotional wellbeing.

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Adoptive parents who may require support and guidance at different stages of family life.

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Foster families requiring additional support to meet the needs of the children and young people that they care for.

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Adopted Adults requiring support to access birth records, counselling and reunions with birth family members.

Types of Therapy

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Theraplay

Strengthening bonds through play

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Art Therapy

Healing with creative expression

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Music Therapy

Growth through rhythm & sound

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Occupational Therapy

Skills for daily living

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Hypnotherapy

Unlocking the mind for deeper healing

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Counselling services

Support when you need it

Types of Therapy We Offer

Theraplay

A play-based approach that strengthens parent-child relationships through guided activities, building trust, joy, and connection.

Play is vitally important for children’s healthy development. It provides opportunities for excitement, creativity, learning, fun and joy.

Play between parent and child is one of the tools which helps build connection and strong, safe and secure attachment. This benefits children not only in their early years but through out the course of their lives.

Scottish Adoption and Fostering workers are trained in Theraplay and use Theraplay techniques to support parent/s attune to their child and begin to address their early unmet emotional and developmental needs. We tailor sessions for individual children/parent/s. These can take place within the home or at Scottish Adoption and Fostering.

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Art Therapy

Art Psychotherapy (often referred to as ‘Art Therapy’) treatment is an early, preventative or crisis intervention, which has proven effectiveness in enabling children and young people to deal with challenging situations and psychological distress.

Art Therapy

Arts Psychotherapy provides children and young people with effective ways to express and value themselves. Treatments are tailored to individual need with the overall aim of improving well-being and promoting resilience in each child/young person.

It is this safe, fun, non-intrusive model that offers creative ways for self-exploration and self-expression, which has gained proven efficacy in all areas of health, such as emotional, physical and mental well-being.

Art Therapists work with children and young people in need of support who:

  • Are experiencing attachment difficulties
  • Are experiencing learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties
  • Are dealing with loss or transition, e.g. bereavement, separation/divorce
  • Are trying to cope with anxieties and worries around life situations
  • Have developed eating disorders or started to self harm
  • Are victims of bullying or abuse
  • Are exhibiting bullying or aggressive behaviours
  • Live with diagnosed medical conditions or disability
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Music Therapy

Music therapy is a psychological therapy that allows a person to access a psychotherapeutic intervention without depending on verbal processing. It is therefore helpful to children who are experiencing emotional difficulties or recovering from early trauma or neglect.

Music Therapy

Music provides an effective and safe outlet for difficult feelings and a vehicle for self-expression. Because musical interaction has been shown in research studies to parallel aspects of preverbal parent-child interaction, music therapy can offer ways of stimulating aspects of early development, which may have been missed in a child’s life, and can support the building of attachment between child and adoptive parent or foster carer.

Reasons for referral to music therapy may include:

  • High anxiety, difficulties with emotional and physical regulation
  • Needing help with social skills/relationships with family or peers
  • Poor sense of self/low self esteem
  • Low mood/withdrawal
  • Needing to process traumatic past events
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Occupational Therapy

From our work supporting children and young people we recognise that early pre-birth and childhood experiences of trauma, neglect and abuse have an effect on the way children and young people cope with stress.

Occupational Therapy

Some children and young people may have underdeveloped sensorimotor systems which impact on how they make sense and engage with the world around them. They may be over- or under responsive to sensory input such as touch, sound, smell, taste, temperature, movement and visual input. This can impact on how they engage with daily activities and how they interact with people.

Our Occupational Therapist offers consultations and play-based assessments which is a mixture of structured tasks and non-directive play to gain an understanding of a child’s internal world and how they function on a bodily level and how this impact on their ability to regulate and relate.

A programme of movement-based play and sensory attachment activities and strategies may be developed to enable the child or parent/s to help the child overcome what they find challenging and feel more in control of themselves and their environment.

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Hypnotherapy

Adoption or fostering is a personal journey that can bring joy, challenges, and big changes. For those experiencing emotional ups and downs along the way, hypnotherapy can be a gentle and supportive tool to help with healing, confidence, and overall wellbeing.

Hypnotherapy

How hypnotherapy may help:

  • Building a sense of safety and security
    Hypnotherapy can help ease worries around trust, belonging, or abandonment by supporting a greater sense of emotional steadiness, acceptance, and self-worth.
  • Supporting identity development
    It offers a guided, reflective space to explore personal identity and make sense of how lived experiences, family connections, and relationships shape one’s story.
  • Easing emotional tension
    Hypnotherapy can help individuals gently soften emotional tightness or distress, allowing difficult experiences to feel less overwhelming while still remaining fully supported.
  • Managing anxiety and overwhelm
    Many older teens and adults affected by adoption or fostering experience heightened anxiety at times. Hypnotherapy can support calmer physiological responses, strengthen coping strategies, and create room to approach worries with more clarity and confidence.
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Adult Counseling

Find a safe and supportive space to explore life’s challenges. Our counsellors help you manage stress, relationships, and emotional well-being.

Adult Counselling

Sometimes adoptive parents require their own counselling; we have an experienced qualified
counsellor who understands the complexities of adoption who can offer six months of
therapy. To access this service parents can be referred by their worker or contact the
Practice Managers directly. This service is available at any point in an adoptive parent’s
journey; with some having counselling during the home study and others in the early days of
placement.

Learn about Adult Counselling

Early Days Program

Our pioneering Early Days Program is here to offer extra support to new families as they settle into life together. It focuses on building strong, loving bonds in those early days through simple play and music activities. Sharing play and music with your child is a gentle and enjoyable way to connect, helping your child feel safe, secure, and loved. These early connections lay the foundation for your child’s wellbeing—not just now, but throughout their life.

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How to access our services?

Our team is here to listen, guide, and support you. We will work with you to find the appropriate service for you and your family.

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