While on student placement at SKATTLE I have had the amazing experience of co-facilitating several therapeutic school groups. These groups are run in schools with children that have experienced life changing events and often involve the most vulnerable members of the school community.  The groups are facilitated over 6 weeks, 2 half days or 1 […]

For as long as I can remember, I have always been a talker. I enjoy having conversations with people. I value intimate and meaningful conversations.  I like to combine everyday activities with conversation. It was no surprise to friends or family when I decided to study psychology at university. I had found a way to combine […]

A few months ago, I heard about an overseas program with SKATTLE. I was immediately interested, but being a student and habitual workaholic, time and money was at the forefront of my mind. Despite these concerns, I decided to at least go to the information session to see what it might offer. “You’re just going […]

Some recent conversations have got me thinking about how people go about picking a good counsellor. It’s not always as simple as you might think so I thought it might be helpful to offer some ideas as a guide. Your relationship with a counsellor (the ‘therapeutic relationship’) is the most important factor as to whether […]

You may have noticed from looking around the website that SKATTLE run therapeutic groups for kids and young people going through difficult life experiences.   We call these our Children and Change groups. Whenever we run a kids group, we run a concurrent parent group so that parents can connect and explore how their role as […]