Therapy Services for Schools

Our mental health services for schools

Schools play a pivotal role in supporting a child or young person to develop emotional well-being and resilience; enabling them to reach their fullest potential.

Clear Sky works closely with schools helping them to support the children and young people in their care.

We support children in schools with Play & Creative Arts Therapy and Animal Assisted Play Therapy, support whole school mental health with our Emotionally Healthy Schools Platform. and offer bespoke training to school staff.

Please contact us with your requirements.

Clear Sky’s support for schools

Play and Creative Arts Therapy

We support Primary, Secondary and Specialist schools by providing individual and group-based Play and Creative Arts Therapy, and through specialised and adaptable training which focuses on the importance of relationships and provides staff with play-based strategies that can be implemented throughout school to support social, emotional, and mental health needs, and which positively impacts behaviour. Our wonderful team of qualified therapists work in schools across Oxfordshire.

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Animal Assisted Play Therapy

Animal Assisted Play Therapy ® supports children and young people aged 4+ experiencing emotional or behavioural difficulties. Heidi and Rolo the dog have joined the dedicated Clear Sky team to work within local Oxfordshire schools. Together, they help vulnerable children and young people safely navigate whatever personal challenges might arise. This ranges from peer anxiety and poor concentration in class to worries at home, or simply feeling misunderstood.
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Emotionally Healthy Schools

We support whole school mental health through our ‘Emotionally Healthy Schools’ platform. This online, on-demand resource empowers schools across the UK to effectively understand, direct, and maintain positive emotional health. Our transformative platform delivers high-quality, CPD-accredited skills directly to teachers. This gives them the confidence to respond appropriately to diverse classroom demands. We would love to welcome your school as a Clear Sky Emotionally Healthy School.

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Adult-Child Attachment Play (ACAP) Professional CPD for Teachers

ACAP is an innovative early help model that focuses on strengthening the adult/carer – child relationship. The ACAP practitioner primarily works with the child one to one. The intervention is aimed at children 3+ to late teens. It can be offered to both neurotypical and neurodiverse children and adapted according to the child’s need. This longer-term, sustained training programme successfully integrates theory and practice, ensuring practitioners confidently deliver this creative, effective intervention.

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Supporting Children’s Mental Health Through Play INSET Training

This course provides a theoretical understanding of trauma and attachment, offering practical strategies to support children in the classroom. We give staff the confidence to establish kind yet firm boundaries that children respond to. Our training teaches you to mindfully set up classrooms based on the needs of individuals to create an optimum learning environment, how to respond to behaviour as form of communication, and help children develop emotional intelligence and self-regulation.
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Mentoring for school staff

The perfect follow up to your Clear Sky training course. Receive on-going support a Clear Sky training mentor. Book individual or group online sessions. Please contact us with your requirements.

Bespoke training

We also offer bespoke training for your school or organisation. For INSET, twilight sessions, online and in person. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.

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Our impact

children and young people have been supported by a Clear Sky Therapist with Play & Creative Arts Therapy session since 2010

therapy sessions delivered in the last 9 years by Clear Sky

What our partner schools are saying

“The children have benefited immeasurably and we have been able to improve their mental health and wellbeing through the play therapy. It has been incredibly supportive to those children and families, especially through some tough times. “

“The therapy has an immensely positive effect on the children and the communication with the staff from the therapist is excellent”

“Clear Sky have supported us to expand our whole school offer through Adult-Child Attachment Play (ACAP) training for Key Staff and this has been invaluable, allowing for school staff to purposefully support children before they reach crisis.”

“Clear Sky Therapists have worked 1:1 with a number of our pupils and we have been able to see the positive impact this has had on these individuals.”

“No task is too big or problem too small. [Clear Sky] are solution driven with a child centred approach”

“[Our Therapist] is absolutely amazing … The children that she has seen have been able to cope with daily life, home and school much better … She has made such a difference to the lives of these children and the effect will continue to be seen.”

“Our Clear Sky Therapist is so knowledgeable and approachable; it makes it so easy to work with her”

“The therapists who have supported our school really live the values of Clear Sky, not just for the children but for the staff they come into contact with… They are kind, warm, nurturing and thoughtful and are really valued by us.”

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Clear Sky are hosts of the Oxfordshire Schools Mental Health and Wellbeing Network. For more details, please visit their website.

Oxfordshire Schools Mental Health and Wellbeing Network

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