Educational Psychology Service

using applied psychology to support children, young people and families

Our services

We are a not-for-profit educational psychology service. We work with families, support services, professionals and community groups who are supporting children and young people in educational settings, the community and at home. We use a joint problem solving approach to build understanding and knowledge within organisations and family systems. We use evidence about what works to intervene early and prevent difficulties escalating. Any profit we make enables us to carry out targeted, early intervention work in the community. We also offer supervision to Educational Psychologists.

Bespoke support with a focus on wellbeing

We offer bespoke packages to meet the needs of your setting or organisation. We start with a consultation, discussing your specific needs, the services we can offer and our respective roles and responsibilities.

We support staff and the wellbeing of staff, children and families through consultation, staff sharing, teacher supervision and teacher drop in-services. We offer coaching services and Multi-Family Groups.

Our approach

We aim to build capacity within the organisation we are working with. Every piece of work will involve specific planning for generalisation and building capacity within your setting or organisation.

We use a problem solving framework in order to make and explore hypotheses. These allow us to identify strengths and areas of need and inform intervention.

We measure impact using an approach called Target Monitoring Evaluation (TME) to collect data on outcomes. Working in this way allows both the service and settings/organisations we work with to produce information on impact over time.

Evidence based practice

We use evidence from research together with collective experience about what works to intervene early and work preventatively.

Our experience tells us that working with systems allows us to have the greatest impact on practice, and, therefore, on a larger number of children and young people. This may include building capacity through training teachers and support staff in evidence based interventions.

WHO WE ARE

Connect Psychology

We are experienced and highly qualified educational psychologists who have worked together within an inner city local authority for many years.

We are committed to inclusive practice and equality of opportunity and outcome for all. We have common values, a complementary set of skills and a wide range of experience in different settings.

We believe that operating outside a local authority allows us to be more flexible and responsive. We are aware both of the financial constraints many schools now face and the need for schools to demonstrate the impact of what they do. We have considerable experience of working with school and family systems, providing senior leadership support and development, and working with specialist provisions particularly for autistic children and young people.

We are HCP registered, enhanced DBS checked and supervised psychologists.

Esther Adelman

Educational Psychologist

Michael Annan

Educational Psychologist

Our fees

Time Daily rate

1 day £600

2-8 days £575

9-15 days £550

1 hour £100

Really useful, personalised sessions that provided a space to be reflective

Testimonial

Testimonials

"The educational psychologist at our school has been invaluable. She has worked in an incredibly supportive and child-focused, outcome-based approach to ensure maximum impact from her assessments. Having her working regularly in school means that her work is an integral part of our assess, plan, do, review process and ensures the interventions we put in place are effective and good value for money. She is flexible in the way she works and understanding of the many challenges facing schools and SENCos today."

School SENCO, Link EP work

"This was a very helpful session! Speakers were fantastic and really captured our attention. Strong links were made throughout the presentation to aid our practice which I found really useful."

Training Session Participant, Training on working systemically in schools

"Really useful, personalised sessions that provided a space to be reflective and think about what I was thinking. The sessions were open without having to have a pre-conceived ideas of issues to bring, with a no pressure approach. Everyone should have the opportunity to do this, even if they don't feel they need it. Everyone can benefit."

Teacher in Specialist Provision, Supervision

CONNECT PSYCHOLOGY