Hello and welcome to GCP Behaviour & Wellbeing

My name is Gabrielle and I am an interventionist

I set up GCP in 2017 working with a small group of home educating families, supporting their access to learning

I am an interventionist, not a counsellor

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WHAT'S MY EXPERIENCE?

I come from education, having worked & trained in pupil referral units, specialist settings & mainstream schools across the district.

This has given me in-depth knowledge & experience into the world of education, behaviour, interventions & complex need

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WHAT TO EXPECT... A big smile!

During the first couple of sessions I create my 'jigsaw' by asking questions around environmental aspects that influence us.

For example, home, school, friendships, family, experiences. From this I then look at specific opportunities for development and collaboratively through talking, drawing, exploring we create strategies to support these areas. Leading to a much happier you!

 

WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?

I am searching for what I call 'challenge points'

These are areas of need within our behaviours, such as anger, anxiety, avoidance, emotional control. Through exploring I will also look at cognitive pathways & functioning skills, seeing if there are specific areas that require attention, such as concentration, focus, memory, thinking types

 

WHY INTERVENTION?

I come from specialist education, working with complex need, special educational need & behaviour. Intervention coupled with training & knowledge in counselling skills, child development, child psychology, mental health conditions and specialising in neurodivergence, intervention works. I find ways to engage & build rapport. Sessions are therapeutic & nurturing & they provide structure, self understanding, environmental understanding so that the young person can see how to embrace behaviour change in a 'whole' approach

 

CAN I HELP WITH HOME?

Yes, it is essential for me to work with family & carers to build a community around my young person, you can join in sessions, I will provide as much feedback as possible & I believe that we should work unanimously in your child's healing journey

 

CAN I HELP WITH SCHOOL?

Yes, my experience & training in behaviour has given me a platform for understanding how young people relate to their learning environments, I am up to date with DfES, Independent schools and Ofsted guidance & if there's something I don't know, I'll find out. I work with many local schools primary, secondary & specialist as well as any other outreach or professionals they may be affiliated with. I'm all about a collaborative approach

 

WHAT DOES THE OFFER LOOK LIKE?

 I offer individual sessions ages 5 - 25, family or parent/carer sessions, intervention & training in schools & other education settings

 

CAMHS & OTHER

I offer a private & independent service. I do need feed into CAMHS but I can be valuable to the process of assessment, diagnosis and/or finding the right support. Some young people come to me & intervention alone works. Others come temporarily while on the waiting list for a CAMHS referral. Some young people & their families end up at my door following diagnosis & discharge, asking what now? I provide wrap around support to & from other services, offer supporting documentation for assessments & EHCP, I advise, signpost & am adaptive to NICE guidelines when working with others

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WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?

I hold an Enhanced DBS

Advanced Safeguarding Qualification

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I follow ethics & procedures to ensure a young person's safety at all times (this included psychological safety)

I engage in consistent training to ensure I am up to date with new policies & guidance

I am bound to child protection & safeguarding procedures including confidentiality where I feel a young person may be at risk

Please feel free to request a chat.

Fill in a submission form on the contacts page & I will get in touch.

I am always incredibly busy but there is constant movement in the diary as the academic year changes, I work with children in and out of education & I span over a breadth of mental health need. I'm here to help

 

I really look forward to meeting you
 
 

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