Life Story
Here at Puzzled, we understand the importance of children and young people being given the truth about their history and filling the gaps they have with the information they need.
I hold a professional Diploma in Therapeutic Life Story Work as well as 10 years experience in creating session plans, life story books, therapeutic activities and working directly with children with all sorts of histories and experiences.
We offer several services to assist and support children, young people, parents, carers and social workers in delivering Life Story Work and discussing difficult subjects.
Session plans for Social Workers
Life Story Work is a delicate and important role to go through with a child or young person who has trauma. It can be extremely difficult to know how to approach sessions in a way that flow and progress naturally for the child or young person.
As the Adoption Support Fund has now decreased it’s funding for each child to access services, it is hard to come by a full course of Therapeutic Life Story Work that has as much detail and dedication due to the time constraints.
This service offers to put together a detailed and therapeutic course of Life Story sessions to be undertaken by the child or young persons Social Worker to be able to support them with the questions they have and the information they deserve.
As well as carefully putting these sessions together, as part of this package, we go through each session personally with the Social Worker who will be delivering the work so they feel confident and prepared in their visits.
Therapeutic supervision can be accessed for an additional cost to discuss the outcomes of the sessions and if the Social Worker needs any further support with the work they have delivered or want to deliver.
Life Story Books
With over 10 years of creating and writing life story books, we know the importance of each life story book being unique and factual when it comes to delivering someones journey.
Our belief is that any child who has spent time away from their family, whether that be foster carer, adoption or living with other family members, they deserve to know why. They need all the pieces put together to make sure they don’t have any unanswered questions or confusing feelings about that time in their lives.
We know time constraints mean that Life Story Books are mainly completed for children who are with their adopted families, leaving children living with Special Guardians or Foster Carers without the information they need to start moving past their traumas.
We are able to complete these books meaning more children will receive the answers and information they need to begin talking about the reason why they can’t live with certain people in their families.
Therapeutic Supervision
When undertaking therapeutic sessions regarding Life Story Work it is imperative you are supported by a person who has the therapeutic experience and knowledge of the work you are doing.
We are able to therapeutically supervise those undertaking Life Story Work to discuss sessions being completed, support around the workers own feelings and emotions and provide further ideas and techniques if it is felt more subjects need exploring.