Shame-Informed Approach
By naming and addressing shame, we create space for dignity, trust, and healing. This is why all of our work is under-pinned by a shame and trauma-informed approach.
We have launched The Shame Initiative to help professionals working with youths to recognise, understand and respond to shame.
Urban Therapy
Conventional therapy doesn’t work for everyone. Our client base won’t sign up for weekly sessions on a couch, their lives are complex, unpredictable, often chaotic.
Urban Therapy responds to that reality.
- We meet young people on their terms: day or evening, in cars, parks or cafés.
- We combine practical help (housing, education, returning from county lines) with therapeutic care.
But the practical is never the point — it’s the pathway. Every lift, every check-in, every bit of support is an opportunity to build attachment and mentalisation: helping young people recognise and regulate emotions, and see themselves and others with new clarity.
That’s how we help them build safer, healthier, violence-free lives.
