Our Approaches
Useful Psychology offers therapy to families supporting children recovering from trauma or neglect from our comfortable premises here at King Edward Mine
Compassionate family support from lived and professional experience
A little more about our approaches
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
We offer a space to explore ways to connect and communicate using Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). When you are feeling confident, we introduce your child into sessions. Using PACE and affective-reflective dialogue (feeling with your child first, and making sense of those feelings second), to help them make sense of their lives.
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Therapeutic Parenting
Through Therapeutic Parenting, we offer a space to explore effective connection and communication. Parents and Carers are usually offered 10 Therapeutic Parenting sessions. During this time we explore your own attachment history, strategies to use at home and learn about the PACE and DDP models.
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Non Violent Resistance
Non Violent Resistance (NVR) is an innovative systemic therapy, which has been developed to target aggressive, controlling, harmful and self-destructive behaviour in young people (Omer, 2001, 2004). It is delivered as coaching to parents, without need for the practitioner to see the focus child.
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Expert Witness and Assessment
Benefiting from 20 years experience of working with families and children we offer a systemic and in depth assessment of children and their families for the courts.
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Individual and Team Supervision
Fully trained to provide supervision in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), we offer flexible supervision formats, including individual, group, and team sessions, and bring experience as “supervisors in the room” or co-therapists, providing real-time support and reflection.
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Get in touch
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FAQs
Whilst we welcome all questions and concerns via email, or contact form, please visit our FAQs first, just in case we have answered your query already!
Do you take private work?
We believe in our work being free at the point of access. This means that the vast majority of our work is funded. We work mostly with looked after children in Adoption or Fostering Services or families supported by chid in need or child protection plans.
On very rare occasions we have been known to take on private work, but often will do this via third parties.
On very rare occasions we have been known to take on private work, but often will do this via third parties.
In person or remote?
Our parenting work, NVR and Therapeutic Parenting, can be done online but DDP with the child/young person needs to be done in our therapeutic space in Troon, Camborne. Whist online has many positives; we would encourage parents to come to our therapy space as face to face has an edge on online work.
Where are you located?
We are fortunate to have found an accessible therapy space on the renovated King Edward Mine site in Troon, Camborne. Not only is the site stunning and dramatic, set in an expansive beautiful rural landscape with the ruins of an old engine house close by, but there is ample parking and a café on site too.
The address is:
Unit 3, King Edward Work Spaces, Newton Moor, Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
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The address is:
Unit 3, King Edward Work Spaces, Newton Moor, Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
You can find us on google maps at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eAth9ktbfLGJYq97
You can find us via What3words using: ///cackling.rocked.news
Is the clinical space accessible?
Yes the therapy space is wheelchair accessible with disabled toilets available in the building. Should you have specific needs, please let us know.
How long is the wait if I’m funded by ASGSF?
The usual process is:
You talk with your lead professional who contacts us. We approach you and we agree to meet. At the meeting we talk about what brought you here and we share what we can offer. If we agree we will then write to your lead professional with our quote.
Your lead professional will then fill in the paper work and submit it to the Adoption Support Fund.
Currently, the Adoption Support Fund can take on average 6 weeks to process the application.
Once the funding is agreed, they will let your lead professional know, who will then let us all know and we will then find an agreeable time and date to start.
So, depending on the availability of everyone in the system, it can take 8 – 12 weeks between your professional asking us to work with you and our first therapy session.
You talk with your lead professional who contacts us. We approach you and we agree to meet. At the meeting we talk about what brought you here and we share what we can offer. If we agree we will then write to your lead professional with our quote.
Your lead professional will then fill in the paper work and submit it to the Adoption Support Fund.
Currently, the Adoption Support Fund can take on average 6 weeks to process the application.
Once the funding is agreed, they will let your lead professional know, who will then let us all know and we will then find an agreeable time and date to start.
So, depending on the availability of everyone in the system, it can take 8 – 12 weeks between your professional asking us to work with you and our first therapy session.
Contact
Unit 3, King Edward Mine,
Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 5 PM
Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 5 PM
Contact Us
HQ@usefulpsychology.org
HQ@usefulpsychology.org
Our Approaches
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Parenting
Non Violent Resistance
Expert Witness and Assessment
Individual and Team Supervision