Lucy Collings Pettit

“Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory.”—Bessel van der Kolk

The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has transformed thousands of lives, providing vital therapeutic support. The gov has announced a 40% cut and changes to funding allocation. Read our open letter: adoptionuk.org/news/open-lett…

Wellbeing Measurement for Schools is an easy to use approach that schools use to understand areas of strength & challenge for their pupils & staff. Providing data & informing the most effective interventions. Free resources & surveys available here: orlo.uk/T7sAb

Do you want to help our research team understand more about children's mental health in schools? 

Check out these new opportunities to get involved in our studies! ⬇️ (1/3)

Research suggests 90% of young people aged 12-17 do not contact health services after self-harming, instead choosing to confide in their peers or a favourite teacher. Learn more in our free webinar on self-harm prevention in schools and colleges: orlo.uk/ai9Ds

Explore our free resource looking at the internal responses of fight, flight, freeze, and collapse to help you gain a deeper understanding of these experiences and start meaningful conversations, even in small ways. We hope you find the resource useful. bit.ly/4fdDuyb

This week is grief awareness week. Thinking of all of those impacted & navigating grief. And from a wider lens including disenfranchised, anticipatory, unresolved, ambiguous grief and beyond. I wrote my Ollie the octopus workbook to support children & the adults around them too

We can't have a whole-school approach to mental wellbeing without supporting staff too - you can't pour from an empty cup! Our new free action-planning guide will help your leadership team implement effective staff wellbeing support: orlo.uk/qTp07 #StressAwarenessWeek

#WorldMentalHealthDay2024 focus is staff #wellbeing. School staff are so incredibly important to be supported, with the demanding and awesome job they do, guiding the next generation 💛

Another brilliant team day for Chroma with the theme “valuing authenticity over perfection”. Privileged to present on the use of therapeutic letters with children and young people with developmental trauma, and the value of #authenticity in this process ✏️✉️💛 @wearechroma

Do you work in a school? Do you want to better understand pupils' wellbeing so you can provide better interventions? Our project @CORCcentral can help. We're excited to share 5 new surveys that can be used by schools in the UK. Get them here: orlo.uk/8DmWo

For those wanting to improve their practice, service or outcomes working with #youngpeople & benefit their #menthalhealth & #wellbeing, this is one example to show how CORC can support you... Blog: orlo.uk/ENNXi Free call to discuss your ideas: orlo.uk/aMbxs

The Good Childhood Report from @childrensociety highlights the challenges faced by children - challenges that can be tackled through prevention and early intervention. Read their six steps to creating a better world for children and why this matters: orlo.uk/FquWW

Ever wondered about the role creative #artstherapies play in cases of #fostering and #adoption? Our MD explains it all in this 2-part podcast with Unit Chambers. Have a listen.... ow.ly/sivT50T3JVs

Ofsted registered arts therapies provider @wearechroma has established a new partnership service at Barley Lane School, Exeter, delivering music therapy sessions to their students: nrtimes.co.uk/chroma-establi… #music #musictherapy #education

#MusicTherapy as a tool to help combat #anxiety and build confidence in #youngpeople at #school. Read our #MusicTherapists' comments on page 65 ow.ly/Tmrc50SC5ft

🌟 Excellent Day 1/4 of #DyadicDevelopmentalPsychotherapy (#DDP) Level 2 Training with Jane Foulkes 🌟Looking forward to the next 3 days of intensive learning, and to applying these insights in my practice @wearechroma ✨ #developmentaltrauma #attachmentfocusedtherapy @ddpnetwork

Getting some of my communication cards ready to cut up and add to. You can download them for free on my website under worksheets

When it comes to parents’ and carers’ mental wellbeing the phrase ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup’ is used often.

But you are deserving of good wellbeing as an individual, regardless of being a parent.

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#WorldWellbeingWeek

#ArtTherapy engages the mind & body in a different way to that of talking, and because of this, it effectively evades the constraints of words, allowing people to explore & express their feelings without the limitations of speech ow.ly/R9fn50SkzaV

Arts therapies provider @wearechroma will utilise @ALLDOQExpert , the specialist workspace for expert witnesses and lawyers, for its recently launched music therapy expert witness service nrtimes.co.uk/chroma-adopts-… #musictherapy #expertwitness #braininjury