Fell House School

Thank you! You have successfully subscribed to our news and information. When children come to us - We begin by helping children who think they are "bad" understand that this is not so, but that bad things have happened to them. They can then begin to experience good things and hence make choices about how they choose to feel about themselves and live/behave.

They learn to understand their own and others' feelings and how to cope with positive and negative emotions. They gain a sense of family/community and learn to care about others as well as themselves. All of our children have experienced trauma and often neglect and physical, emotional and / or sexual abuse. They all need individual weekly therapy from qualified clinicians.

All our children engage in individual therapy, most continue throughout their stay with us. As our children's trauma has been pre-verbal we use creative therapists, art, play, drama and music to help the children make sense of what has happened to them. Our Therapeutic Approach - We believe in the following principles