Consultancy and Thinking Spaces
Warm and reflective thinking spaces for meaningful change, growth, and support.
We offer bespoke psychological consultancy and thinking space sessions for individuals, teams, and organizations across the social care, education, health, criminal justice, charity, legal, and early years sectors (amongst others).
These sessions provide a reflective, curious, and friendly space rooted in real-world application and backed by psychological expertise, creative tools, and evidence-based approaches. They are grounded in a trauma, cultural, adversity, and relational lens.
Whether you are just starting out, feeling stuck, navigating complex change, or wanting to deepen your practice, we tailor our work to meet your needs.
Who We Work With
These sessions are for anyone at any stage of their journey who wants to reflect, grow, embed learning, or navigate challenges with more clarity and support.
We regularly work with:
- Frontline professionals and practitioners
- Managers, leaders, and HR teams
- Trauma-informed champions, infusers, and change-makers
- Independent therapists, consultants, or creatives
- Those experiencing workplace stress, burnout, or moral distress
If you’re not sure if it’s a fit, just ask. We’re happy to explore it together.
What We Offer
Please scroll down to view the Organizational-Focused Consultation and the Practical-Focused Consultation.
Organizational-Focused Consultation
Support for embedding and sustaining trauma, adversity, relationally and culturally informed infused, and responsive approaches in real and practical ways. Common areas include (however, there are many more!)
Trauma-Informed Organizational Development:
- Embedding trauma-informed values into systems, policies, and culture
- Troubleshooting barriers and dilemmas in implementation
- Exploring thorny bits and real-world tensions
- Mapping and enriching your journey and roadmap over time
- Planning the journey including around training needs and what the priority matrix is
Supporting Leaders of Change:
- Thinking spaces for trauma-informed leads, champions, and culture-shift roles
- Modelling the model supporting alignment between intention and action
- Preventing burnout and sustaining wellbeing in change-makers
Language & Communication:
- Crafting trauma-informed wording for websites, referral forms, policies, assessments,
letters, surveys, and more - Designing accessible and relational materials that reflect your ethos
- Reviewing policies and documents.
Environment & Culture:
- Reviewing spaces (photos, walkthroughs, or virtual reviews) to align physical
environments with trauma-informed principles - Focusing on specific areas such as therapy rooms, reception areas, or
playgrounds
HR, Leadership & Supervision:
- Trauma-informed approaches to performance management, recruitment,
and HR policies - Supporting reflective practice, supervision, and staff wellbeing
- Creating psychologically “safe” spaces for leaders, teams, and individuals
Embedding Training:
- Follow-up consultations to reflect, implement, and breathe life into
training concepts - Turning learning into living practice
Wider Strategic Support:
- Supporting new service design or mergers with a trauma lens
- Creative thinking around service gaps or systemic challenges
- Facilitating trauma-informed working groups, panels, or champions
Practice-Focused Consultation
For reflective, practical, and relational support around specific people/families or themes:
- Person-specific reflection (e.g. child, carer, parent)
- Thematic spaces (e.g. grief, transitions, loss, powerlessness etc)
- Tools, resources, or strategies to try in practice
- Thinking through therapy or assessment pathways
- “Placement” support, transitions, and life story work
- Signposting to relevant resources or ideas
- Creative ideas and strategies/ direct work support
Formats and Practicalities
- One-off sessions, series of consultations, or half/full-day formats (ideal for multiple attendees)
- Delivered virtually (most common), by phone, or face-to-face (depending on location and session length)
- Document and policy reviews (via email or live feedback sessions)
- Consultation notes, resources, and follow-up summaries are provided where appropriate
- Options to purchase a flexible bundle (e.g. 10 hours) to access support as needed
We recommend pairing training with consultancy or thinking spaces to help embed ideas into everyday practice and culture.
A Few Examples of Recent Work
- Supporting a school to reflect on its toilets, reception, and playground through a trauma-informed lens.
- Helping an HR team reframe performance management through relational principles.
- Providing thinking space for service leads navigating trauma-informed change.
- Supporting a team post-critical incident (e.g. youth violence, suicide, national healthcare scandal).
- Advising on trauma-informed materials for the police, army, and local authorities.
- Helping foster care panels, social workers, and guardians embed child voice meaningfully.
- Collaborating on recruitment processes for a new team job spec to interviews.
- Supporting kinship practitioners to co-create resources specific to carers’ unique experiences.
- Reflecting with managers on organizational trauma and pathways to repair.
- Coaching individuals on public speaking, service setup, or writing projects.
- Supporting a team around how to creatively ad relationally support transitions and moving on.
Let’s Think Together
If you’re curious about whether this could help, or want to chat through ideas, feel free to reach out. karen@safehandsthinkingminds.co.uk
Before getting in touch, it’s helpful to reflect on your hopes, needs, and focus. This helps us tailor the conversation and guide you toward the right kind of support.
