Hi! I'm Ash...
Welcome to Therapeutic Space!
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I have been working therapeutically with children for over 14 years. I started my journey working in a college in Paris, France. I was there to support students with their English skills but was quickly given the role of supporting them with their emotional well-being, relationships and social issues.
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I returned to the UK where I gained a Masters in Social Work. From the outset, my priority has always been working with children therapeutically to support them through some of the most complex and challenging times in their lives. A specialist focus of mine has been working with children whose first language is not English; utilising my French skills whenever possible. This has led to me undertaking research and gaining a significant amount of experience of working with children and families within the asylum seeking and refugee communities.
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I have worked alongside Children’s Psychologists and psychotherapists to provide children and families with the bespoke psychoeducation and therapeutic support they require.
In order to deepen my therapeutic knowledge, in 2021, I began my journey into the world of Play Therapy with PTUK and APAC via Leeds Beckett and Chichester Universities. I feel that children need a safe ‘Therapeutic Space’ to be able to feel accepted, heard and understood. With this as their base, it allows them opportunity to explore their experiences and support them on their journey of emotional healing.
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During my 14 years working with children, I have worked with children who have experienced a significant amount of complex trauma, bereavement, loss, parents in prison, anger, anxiety, children in care, refugee and asylum seeking children and children diagnosed with ASD and ADHD.
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Everyday, I am grateful to be able to do the job that I do. I feel it is an honour and a privilege to be a part of a child's therapeutic journey.
Qualifications
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BA Hons French (2008)
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MA Social Work (2011)
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Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Play (2022)
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Post Graduate Diploma in Play Therapy (2024)
The Vision / Vision 4 You CIC
"Vision with action can change the world. Creating the balance in power through empowerment"
The ethos of The Vision is to empower, disempowered groups through combining many different lenses to make a difference. This includes the lens of social care professionals and lived experienced experts.
The Vision achieves life changing outcomes through delivering therapeutic group & 1:1 programmes, delivering training to professionals working with vulnerable groups, audit work and facilitating reflective practice.
As a group The Vision wanted to spread the positive work to vulnerable groups who may not have access to funding to access The Vision's expertise, which is why Vision 4 You CIC was founded.
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Our lived experienced experts have collectively over 50 years of experience. Expertise in language, special educational needs, life story work, asylum, and refugee processes, leaving care, education, life skills, LGBTQ+, support networks, teenage parenting, risk, exploitation, trauma, mental health, communication, and housing.
Our professional experience relates to care experienced children & young people, child protection, working alongside individuals from diverse backgrounds. This experience ranges from independent advocacy, independent audit, children's homes, fostering, working with the asylum seeking and refugee community, local authority social work, independent social work, management roles & Ofsted social care regulatory inspection. Also, therapeutic experience through therapeutic social work and play therapy.
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Vision 4 You is going to create positivity, empowerment, hope and love to those who may need it through our 4 core values:
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Creativity.
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Connection.
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Collaboration.
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Community.
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