Therapies
Our direct therapeutic services for families are tailored to meet the unique needs of each family. We provide individualised therapy that focuses on reconnecting family members, overcoming harmful and self destructive behaviours, and building a supportive and resilient family environment.
Kerry Shoesmith
Pioneering Therapeutic Leader in High-Risk and Complex Care
Hello, I’m Kerry Shoesmith. With over 20 years of experience in working with children and families.
At Connective Strength, I focus on Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) family preservation and professional training.
My additional services include:
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Individual Therapy
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Life Coaching
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Leadership and Management Coaching
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Therapeutic Consultation for Organisations and Children’s Homes:
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Bespoke Training
My extensive background as a therapist, supervisor, trainer, and residential childcare operational director enables me to deliver effective therapeutic interventions and clinical supervision. I am committed to helping vulnerable adolescents, adults and teams achieve change, experience personal and professional growth, overcome trauma, increase their mental and emotional well-being, and improve relationships.
Dr Peter Jakob
Dr Peter Jakob. UK leader in Non Violent Resistance Therapy and Practice
With a social work background and over 40 years of experience in clinical psychology and family therapy, I draw mainly from solution-focused and narrative ways of working to facilitate change in a timely manner.
Specific trauma-focused methods, such as EMDR, trauma-focused CBT and Re-Attach, are all interwoven with these approaches to best address a client’s needs and, where working in NVR, increase its efficacy for individuals and families who are facing multiple challenges. Having developed a trauma-informed and child-focused approach within NVR, I also work with a wide variety of psychological difficulties in private practice.
I strongly believe that helping to actualise people’s own internal and interpersonal resources, appreciating how they themselves are able to take steps in bringing about change in their own lives, while being a compassionate witness to the suffering they have experienced is one of the most respectful, and at the same time effective, way of working in therapy.