Chorus Families

Who we are

Early Years work is our passion and our specialism. We are psychoanalytically trained child psychotherapists who have worked for over 20 years in local authority, NHS and the charity sector, with families facing a range of mental health difficulties and challenging social circumstances.

What we do

Working with existing agencies who would like to provide specialist mental health support to parents and young children, Chorus provides therapeutic groups for families with very young children experiencing adverse life events, to help improve later outcomes for the whole family.

How we do it

Families are the centre of our work. Our groups are run by skilled professionals, but the ‘experts’ are the families who take part in them. Our approach strengthens relationships within and between families, and enables parents and children to grow their own capacities, providing support which is preventive and sustainable.

Chorus Families provides specialist mental health support to families with babies, toddlers and children under 5.

Our therapeutic parent-child groups enhance the crucial early relationships between parents and children, helping families identify and grow their pre-existing capacities, and strengthening the foundation for children’s later development. Each group creates a sustainable peer support network, which means that when the group ends, the support continues.

We respond innovatively to local need by co-creating our therapeutic programmes with families and the agencies that support them, filling gaps in existing service provision and effectively engaging families for whom services can be ‘hard-to-reach’.

Where needed we also offer individual assessment and therapeutic input. Developed by listening to the needs of the child, the family and the wider professional system, our therapeutic partnerships are designed to meet the emotional, social and developmental needs of the youngest children and their parents in their local communities.