Children in Care, Adoption and Fostering Support
Evolving Families offers specialist therapeutic support for children in care, adopted children, foster families, kinship carers, adoptive parents and professional networks.
Children who have experienced early adversity, separation, loss, trauma, disrupted relationships or care transitions may need support that is carefully informed by trauma, attachment, development and identity.
Behaviour that appears challenging may be a way of communicating distress, fear, confusion, unmet needs or survival strategies that once made sense.
What We Offer
- Therapeutic work with children and young people
- Parent, carer or foster carer support
- Adoption and fostering-informed therapy
- Therapeutic parenting guidance
- Trauma and attachment-informed formulation
- Support around identity, belonging and life story
- Consultation with professional networks
- Reflective practice for carers or staff teams
- Support around transitions, placement stability and relationship patterns
- Liaison with schools, social care or other professionals where appropriate
This work may be direct therapeutic support, consultation, or a combination of both.
Difficulties We Support
- Emotional regulation
- Behaviour that is difficult to understand
- Trauma responses
- Attachment-related difficulties
- Loss, separation or grief
- Placement stress or transitions
- Identity, belonging and life story
- Relationship difficulties with carers or professionals
- Anxiety, low mood or withdrawal
- Trust and safety
- Developmental trauma
- Neurodiversity alongside trauma or care experience
- School and peer difficulties
- Carer stress or uncertainty about how to respond
We recognise that care-experienced children are often surrounded by complex systems. Our work aims to support the child and the adults around them.
Our Approach
Our approach is trauma-informed, attachment-informed and systemically minded.
We take time to understand the child’s developmental history, relationships, strengths, current context and the meaning behind behaviour. We avoid simplistic explanations and aim to help adults respond with curiosity, consistency and compassion.
Support may draw on therapeutic parenting principles, PACE-informed thinking, DDP-informed practice, psychological formulation, trauma-informed therapy, systemic thinking and consultation with the wider network.
The aim is to help children feel safer, better understood and more supported by the adults around them.
