About
Therapeutic Fostering Consultancy

Our aim is simple — to support Foster Carers and Social Workers in moving away from traditional parenting approaches and towards therapeutic, trauma-informed care. By helping carers understand and respond to the underlying needs behind a child’s behaviour, we can strengthen relationships, reduce placement breakdowns, and provide the stability and emotional safety that our most vulnerable children deserve.

We provide training in therapeutic parenting, PACE and general foster care as well as consultancy services to help really embed therapeutic parenting and trauma informed care into your organisation!

Training

  • Aim

    To help professionals and foster carers move beyond checklist-based assessments and develop a deeper, therapeutic understanding of parenting capacity, motivation, and reflective ability — ensuring that every assessment supports safer, more stable placements.

    Learning Objectives

    • By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the principles of therapeutic fostering and how it differs from traditional care models.

    • Identify the skills, attitudes that develop therapeutic capacity in carers.

    • Recognise the impact of trauma and attachment disruption on children’s behaviour and relationships.

    • Apply UK-derived reflective tools and supervision techniques to strengthen carer support.

    • Explore practical strategies for embedding trauma-informed practice within U.S. foster care systems.

    Key Themes

    • What “therapeutic fostering” means in practice

    • Building emotional attunement and reflective capacity in carers

    • The PACE model and its integration into daily care

    • Supporting carers through supervision and training

    • Translating UK models (Form F, therapeutic parenting, reflective supervision) into U.S. settings

    Duration & Format

    120-minute interactive webinar

    Includes case studies, reflective discussions, and practical tools from UK therapeutic care frameworks

  • Aim

    To share key lessons from UK therapeutic fostering models and demonstrate how trauma-informed, relational care can enhance stability, resilience, and healing for children in foster care. This session invites participants to explore what “therapeutic capacity” really means and how to build it across carers, teams, and systems.

    Learning Objectives

    By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the principles of therapeutic fostering and how it differs from traditional care models.

    • Identify the skills, attitudes, and supports that develop therapeutic capacity in carers.

    • Recognise the impact of trauma and attachment disruption on children’s behaviour and relationships.

    • Apply UK-derived reflective tools and supervision techniques to strengthen carer support.

    • Explore practical strategies for embedding trauma-informed practice within U.S. foster care systems.

    Key Themes

    • What “therapeutic fostering” means in practice

    • Building emotional attunement and reflective capacity in carers

    • The PACE model and its integration into daily care

    • Supporting carers through supervision and training

    • Translating UK models (Form F, therapeutic parenting, reflective supervision) into U.S. settings

    Duration & Format

    120-minute interactive webinar

    Includes case studies, reflective discussions, and practical tools from UK therapeutic care frameworks

  • Aim

    To help foster carers and professionals understand and confidently apply the PACE model as a foundation for therapeutic parenting. This session explores how PACE builds trust, strengthens attachment, and supports children in regulating emotions and behaviour — even in challenging moments.

    Learning Objectives

    By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the principles of Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy (PACE).

    • Recognise how trauma impacts a child’s ability to trust and connect.

    • Apply PACE strategies in everyday interactions to promote emotional safety and attunement.

    • Reflect on their own responses to children’s behaviours and use PACE to guide connection.

    • Use PACE to repair relational ruptures and strengthen the carer–child bond.

    Key Themes

    • The neuroscience of trauma and emotional regulation
      PACE as a daily therapeutic framework Responding to challenging behaviour with curiosity, not control

    • Repairing relationships after conflict Integrating PACE into supervision and support structures.

    Duration & Format

    120-minute interactive webinar.

    Includes reflective discussions, video examples, and practical role-play exercise

  • Aim

    To equip supervisors, team leaders, and fostering professionals with the skills and confidence to use reflective supervision as a tool for support, learning, and emotional resilience. This session explores how supervision can move beyond task management to create a safe, reflective space where carers feel understood, valued, and re-energised.

    Learning Objectives

    By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the purpose and principles of reflective supervision within foster care.

    • Distinguish between managerial, clinical, and reflective supervision.

    • Facilitate reflective conversations that promote emotional insight and self- awareness in carers.

    • Use supervision to explore the emotional impact of fostering and prevent compassion fatigue.

    • Apply trauma-informed and PACE-informed principles to supervision sessions.

    Key Themes

    • The emotional landscape of fostering

    • Reflective vs. directive supervision models

    • The “Three Rs” of effective supervision: Relationship, Reflection, and Resilience

    • Using PACE to guide reflective dialogue

    • Supervision as a tool for carer retention and placement stability

    Duration & Format

    120 mins interactive webinar

    Includes guided reflection exercises, real-world examples, and supervision role-plays

  • Aim

    To provide a flexible, collaborative training and consultancy service that meets the specific needs of your agency, staff, and foster carers. Whether the focus is trauma- informed practice, reflective assessment, or therapeutic parenting, this series is designed to build depth, consistency, and confidence across your team.

    What This Includes

    Each custom package is developed in consultation with your agency to ensure relevance, practical impact, and alignment with your goals.

    Options may include:

    • A sequence of 3–6 bespoke webinars or workshops

    • Supervision or coaching sessions for staff teams or individual practitioners

    • Reflective practice groups for foster carers or supervisors

    • Assessment framework consultation, helping agencies embed reflective, trauma-informed approaches into their licensing or review processes

    Example Themes

    • Developing a trauma-informed agency culture

    • Building therapeutic capacity across the fostering network

    • Embedding reflective supervision into organisational practice

    • Enhancing home study and assessment tools
      Advanced PACE and therapeutic parenting practice

    Format & Delivery

    • Delivered virtually

    • Designed collaboratively following an initial consultation

    • Flexible duration: from a focused two-part series to a six-month professional development plan

    Outcomes

    • Agencies and teams will:
      Strengthen consistency of practice across staff and carers

    • Build sustainable reflective and therapeutic culture Improve placement stability and carer retention

    • Enhance staff wellbeing and confidence in trauma-informed work

Consultancy Services

  • Aim

    To provide personalised, high-quality reflective supervision that supports individual fostering professionals in strengthening therapeutic capacity, emotional resilience, and confidence in managing complex cases.

    Who It’s For

    • Supervising social workers / case managers

    • Fostering support workers

    • Professionals requiring reflective space alongside high-pressure front-line work

    • Individuals seeking deeper therapeutic insight and practice growth

    Delivery & Flexibility

    Sessions are delivered virtually via Zoom and can be scheduled monthly or bi-monthly, depending on the practitioner’s developmental needs and workload pressures.

    What These Sessions Offer

    • A confidential, emotionally safe space to explore practice challenges

    • Support with emotional impact, secondary trauma, and professional identity

    • Reflective analysis of complex placements, risk, and trauma dynamics

    • Guidance in using therapeutic parenting, PACE, and trauma-informed approaches

    • Development of confidence, resilience, and reflective capacity

    Trainer / Consultant

    Delivered by Millie Roxbee, therapeutic fostering specialist with extensive experience in reflective supervision, trauma-informed practice, PACE, and high-complexity foster placements.

  • Aim

    To build reflective capacity within teams by creating a shared, safe space for emotional containment, joint problem-solving, and the development of therapeutic, connected team culture.

    Who It’s For

    • Foster care teams

    • Multi-disciplinary groups

    • Supervising social workers and case managers

    • Any staff group supporting complex fostering placements

    Delivery & Flexibility

    Delivered via Zoom for accessibility across teams, including international partners.
    Sessions can be scheduled monthly, bi-monthly, or tailored to organisational rhythms.

    Up to 8 participants per group fosters depth of reflection and meaningful discussion.

    What These Sessions Offer

    • Shared reflective space for teams managing emotionally challenging cases

    • Strengthens relational understanding and reduces professional burnout

    • Promotes consistent trauma-informed practice across staff

    • Encourages collective thinking and coordinated decision-making

    • Supports culture change through increased insight, empathy, and containment

    Trainer / Consultant

    Delivered by Millie Roxbee, with extensive experience managing complex fostering teams, embedding reflective supervision systems, and leading therapeutic practice development.

  • To strengthen the therapeutic depth, accuracy, and reflective rigour of assessments, ensuring that home studies and approval processes fully capture parenting capacity, trauma understanding, and relationship insight.

    Who It’s For

    • Agencies wanting to improve the quality of their assessments

    • Supervising social workers writing or reviewing home studies

    • Case managers and assessment teams

    • Organisations seeking trauma-informed, reflective assessment frameworks

    Delivery & Flexibility

    Consultation is delivered via Zoom and can be arranged as:

    • Hourly consultation

    • Single-case review support

    • Development of an improved assessment framework

    • Whole-team training on assessment practice

    Project-based work can be fully customised to organisational needs.

    What These Sessions Offer

    • Detailed review and guidance on home studies / assessments

    • Strengthening therapeutic analysis and reflective insight in written work

    • Support with understanding parental capacity, attachment, and trauma history

    • Recommendations for improving assessment structure, depth, and quality

    • Embedding therapeutic principles into approval processes and decision-making

    Trainer / Consultant

    Led by Millie Roxbee, trained Form F assessor with extensive experience in assessment quality assurance, therapeutic analysis, and complex family evaluations.

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