Cutting-edge, trauma-informed early interventions

Seen Heard Believed provides trauma-informed early interventions shaped from lived experience, to vulnerable and struggling families in Middlesbrough.

How do we help?

We deliver an innovative Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) approach to vulnerable families for as long as is needed.

TIP is grounded in understanding and responding to the impact of trauma; it emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone, to create opportunities for those affected to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment in their own lives.

Trauma can cause stress responses in family members with consequences that ripple through relationships and impede healthy, safe family functioning.  A common cause of trauma is domestic abuse – past or present – which can in turn become a response to something else that has happened. This can affect everyone involved, either directly or through witnessing it.  Our ‘whole family approach’ takes everything into account.

Our Methods About Us
We deliver an innovative Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) approach to vulnerable families for as long as is needed. featured image

Trauma Informed Practise is grounded in understanding and responding to the impact of trauma.

Providing early intervention support in a trauma informed manner is the key to successfully engaging and working with families to promote and sustain positive change.

Seen, Heard, Believed is a project with a difference, that’s making a real difference, because the support is provided early and takes into account how trauma affects the whole family.

1-2-1 Support

Our 1-2-1 support is based on a supported self-help approach that enables the individual to communicate effectively, be listened too and develop.
Family Centered

Our family centred approach works with families to enhance their capacity to care and protect their children, and to build strength and resilience together.
Child Focussed

Our child-focused support promotes the voice of the child or children in families, so they are at the centre of all decisions about their lives.
Residential

Our residential stays at Peat Rigg in North Yorkshire are designed to improve family relationships through problem solving outdoor experiences.
Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervision is important in providing space for practitioners to understand and examine their own reactions, transference and counter transference.
The 4 Rs Model

Our 4 R’s approach comprises of Trauma Informed Practice to understand families. It is an approach that guides practitioners to think about how they will engage families.
Domestic Abuse TIP

We provide trauma-informed practice with families affected by domestic abuse to undestand what happened. create a safe, empowering and understanding environment from which to build from.