Referrals:
We currentyu have centres in Bath, Guernsey, and Oxford.
Here is a summary of what you need to know about referring:
Waiting times can be changeable and vary between each of our centres. High demand and our charity’s commitment to working long term with children and young people, means that waiting times for therapy can be lengthy.
When you submit a referral form, our team can advise you on waiting time for the centre you have applied to.
How long will I wait before getting a place?
Therapy:
1:1 Therapy session for a young person aged 3-15: £100 (including the cost of the parenting group session)
Therapy session for a young person aged 16-24: £75
Therapeutic mentoring:
1:1 mentoring, 1 hour session: £40
Group mentoring, 1.5 hour session: £30 (including the cost of the parenting group session)
If the young person is under 16, the parent or carer will need to stay on site during the therapy or mentoring session.
Parenting support group:
Parenting support group session: £25
Parents and carers can apply, and may be invited, to attend parenting support group sessions before their young person receives therapy or mentoring.
If you are genuinely struggling to afford the cost of a place at the Trauma Recovery Centre, please let us know when you complete the referral form.
Sometimes Trauma Recovery UK are able to offer partial subsidies to support families who are genuinely unable to meet the full cost of therapy themselves and where there is no funding support available from school, statutory authorities or other charities or funders.
Any partial subsidies offered by Trauma Recovery UK will come from the charity’s fundraising or grant awards, and these funds are not consistently available, so there is a limit to what TRC is able to offer. Unfortunately, we cannot offer partial subsidies to every family.
How much does it cost?
Email us - referals@trc-uk.org - for a referral form. Complete and return the form by email and a member of our clinical team will be in touch.
How do I refer?
Our Therapy Centres
Bath Centre
Our Centre’s waiting list is often long but we would love to discuss your referral with you.
Guernsey Centre
Our Centre’s waiting list is often long but we would love to discuss your referral with you.
Oxford Centre
Our Centre is open for Referrals.
Waiting list:
We will advise you on current wait times for a therapy place at the time of your referral.
Most of our referral spaces are in September and run for the year. This can be changeable and dependent on grant funding.
We match each client with the most appropriate available therapist for their age and specific needs. For referrals for under 16 year olds, we also provide a parent/ carer support group alongside their child’s therapy. Trauma therapy is generally long term, a minimum of 1 year.
We are a charity receiving no core statutory funding so rely on individual case funding in order to be able to offer our service.
Due to our wait times we advise that where a child or young person has the offer of mental health support in school, with a school counsellor, mental health practitioner, or therapeutically informed mentor, for example, this offer should be taken up. Whilst we cannot overlap psychotherapy work, we can link up with work being done in school and advise on the best moment for trauma therapy to start when a place becomes available at TRC.
Our Referral Process
Referrals come from parents and carers; schools e.g. SENCo’s, school nurses; CAMHS, GPs, police, social workers, courts and other organisations who recognise our specialism in complex trauma.
Our referral process
1. Contact TRC
Email us at referrals@trc-uk.org to say that you would like to refer a child or young person to the TRC.
We accept referrals from:
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Professionals, including SENCOs, school nurses, CAMHS, GPs, police, social workers, courts, fostering and adoption agencies, and other organisations.
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Parents/carers of under 16-year-olds
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Self-referrals from young people aged 16-24
Please note:
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We cannot work with young people who are involved in any case that is currently going through the courts for custody or other proceedings.
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Where there is joint Parental Responsibility, we require the consent of both parents to begin therapy with a child aged under 16.
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We are obliged to provide termly child therapeutic summaries to a parent with Parental Responsibility, if they request this.
2. Complete referral form
You will be sent a referral form to complete and return to us, to explain some details about the young person’s current situation, any known traumatic events, and the impact this is having on them.
3. Call from our team
We aim to respond to you within 8 weeks of receiving your referral form.
A member of our clinical team will contact you to ask for some more information. Our team can then also advise you on current waiting times for therapy and therapeutic mentoring in the centre you have selected.
4. Initial meeting
When a therapy or therapeutic mentoring space is available, we will contact you. At this initial meeting, we will discuss the referral, and give you an opportunity to find out more about the therapy and support that TRC offers.
For a child or young person aged under 16, we will arrange an initial meeting with the Parent or Carer.
For clients who are 16 or over, we will arrange an initial meeting with the therapist.
5. Starting at TRC
If the family and/or young person want to proceed, the time of the therapy or therapeutic mentoring session will be arranged. If the child or young person is aged under 16, they will come to meet their therapist or mentor for the first time.
When the child or young person attends TRC for their therapy or therapeutic mentoring session, the parent or carer will attend TRC’s parenting support group.
The parenting support group is not usually offered to parents of young people aged 16 and over, however, appropriate guidance, resources and support can be offered to the family where needed.
Please note: each centre can only offer therapy or therapeutic mentoring on particular days, and has limited flexibility about the session time that can be offered to you.
6. Therapy assessment period
Where a child or young person is attending therapy, the initial 4-6 sessions will be an assessment period during which their therapist will prepare a plan, setting out the aims that it is hoped therapy will achieve for that young person. This plan will be reviewed regularly.
7. Ending therapy
When the aims of therapy have been met, the therapy will come to an appropriate, carefully planned ending over several weeks.
On average, children and young people engage in therapy at TRC for a minimum of 12 weeks, but usually for at least one year, and for up to three years.
8. Therapeutic mentoring
Before therapy starts or when a child or young person has finished their time in therapy, they may attend TRC for therapeutic mentoring, often as part of a group, or meeting 1:1 with a therapeutic mentor.
The therapist will talk to the parent or carer and to the young person about whether therapeutic mentoring might be appropriate for them, and if it is, will support them to make arrangements to move to a mentor. Therapeutic mentoring sessions may take place on a different day and at a different time.
Therapeutic mentoring can help the child or young person continue to build their confidence and resilience, and, for group mentoring, their social skills.
9. Open-Door Policy
After a child or young person has finished therapy or mentoring, we are happy to be able to welcome them back, to pop in to the Centre for a quick drink and to say hello, and let us know how they’re getting on.
Some children and young people, may need to return to the TRC for further therapeutic mentoring or therapy after a few years, to help them process when they have reached the next stage of life.
We recognise that TRC has an important role to play in still being available and that the Centre’s relationship with the child or young person is ongoing, it doesn’t end when their time in therapy or mentoring ends.
To refer a child or young person to the TRC:
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Email us to say that you’d like to refer. We accept referrals from professionals and self-referrals from parents/carers of under 16 year olds or from the individual self-referring aged 16-25.
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You will be sent a referral form which we ask you to complete and return to us, to explain in some detail to us your current situation, with any known traumatic events and how this is impacting the child/young person or yourself.
This form also includes space to give us details of how the therapy and parenting sessions will be funded. This does not commit you to having to go through with the referral but will give us the initial information we need.
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We aim to respond to your initial referral within 8 weeks. A member of the clinical team will contact you for more information and to advise you on wait times for therapy.
Please note, we cannot work with cases currently going through the courts for custody or other proceedings. Where there is joint Parental Responsibility we also require the consent of both parents for Under 16s to begin therapy. We are obliged to provide termly child therapeutic summaries to a parent with Parental Responsibility if they request this.
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When a therapy space is available we will contact you.
For a child or young person aged 16 or under, this meeting will be with the Parent or Carer to discuss the referral further and for you to find out more about the therapy and support that we provide.
For clients who are 16 years + they can attend themselves for the introductory meeting with their therapist.
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If the family and/or young person want to proceed, the time of the therapy or therapeutic mentoring session will be arranged. If the child or young person is aged under 16, they will come to meet their therapist or mentor for the first time.
When the child or young person attends TRC for their therapy or therapeutic mentoring session, the parent or carer will attend TRC’s parenting support group.
The parenting support group is not usually offered to parents of young people aged 16 and over, however, appropriate guidance, resources and support can be offered to the family where needed.
Please note: each centre can only offer therapy or therapeutic mentoring on particular days, and has limited flexibility about the session time that can be offered to you.
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You will be sent an update at 12 months wait time on your place.
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The session time of therapy will be arranged, and you will bring the child to meet the therapist for their first session. Please note that there’s limited flexibility on the times and days offered for therapy.
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There will be an assessment period for 4-6 sessions after which a therapeutic plan will be put in place with aims of what the therapy will achieve. This will be reviewed regularly.
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When the aims have been met the therapy will come towards an appropriate ending over several weeks. On average we see children engage in therapy for a minimum total of 12 weeks and up to 3 years.
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The child/ young person may continue to attend TRC therapeutic mentoring groups to continue building resilience and confidence in a group of peers. Older children are offered referral to a mentoring group.