PSHE Support for Children with Trauma & SEN

I offer trauma-informed PSHE support for children and young people who find standard school PSHE lessons overwhelming or triggering, particularly those with experiences of trauma, care, or disrupted attachment.

This support provides age-appropriate, sensitive education around topics such as:

• Safe and respectful relationships
• Boundaries and consent
• Protective behaviours
• Puberty and body changes
• Emotional wellbeing and personal safety

Sessions are delivered in a calm, predictable, and choice-based way, with a focus on emotional safety, regulation, and understanding rights and options. Content is adapted to meet statutory PSHE expectations while being presented in a way that reduces distress and avoids re-traumatisation.

This work is educational and preventative, designed to support access to learning, not to explore personal experiences or provide treatment.

This service is not therapy and does not replace counselling, psychotherapy, or clinical intervention.

• Children are not asked to disclose personal experiences
• Sessions do not involve trauma processing or therapeutic work
• Emotional support is limited to grounding, regulation, and signposting where appropriate

Where therapeutic needs are identified, families and professionals will be supported to access appropriate services separately.

This service may be helpful for:

• Fostered or adopted children
• Children with a trauma history
• Young people unable to access PSHE in mainstream settings
• Schools, carers, and local authorities seeking trauma-sensitive PSHE provision

Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people is a priority within all PSHE support sessions.

This work is delivered in line with current safeguarding guidance and professional responsibilities. While sessions are educational and non-therapeutic, any concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing will be managed appropriately and in accordance with safeguarding procedures.

Children and young people are informed, in an age-appropriate way, that confidentiality cannot be kept if there is a concern about safety. Where necessary, information will be shared with relevant safeguarding leads or services to help ensure a child’s safety.

This is always done with care, transparency, and with the child’s welfare at the centre of decision-making.