Clinical Consultancy
The Lighthouse Institute provides specialist consultancy to practitioners and organisations that provide support to children, young people, adults and families who may have experienced attachment disruptions and trauma. Our current consultancy work includes model development work, developing attachment and trauma informed organisational systems and clinical supervision processes.
Potential Outcomes for Organisations
- Improved understanding of the role played by the whole organisation in the treatment of traumatised children/young people and/or families
- Improved outcomes for children/young people and/or families
- Greater clarity of the therapeutic task and the concepts involved
- An interpretative framework to understand attachment and trauma based behaviours
- A shared language, with the whole organisation working together in a unified and coherent way
- Improved capacity throughout the whole organisation to support those directly involved with children/young people and/or families to deal with trauma re-enactments and the emotionality of the work
- Improved level of staff engagement, commitment and development
- Improved wellness for individuals and the organisation as a whole
- Reduced levels of staff illness and improved staff retention
- Greater collaboration, creativity and ability to work positively through change processes
Format and Approach
- We design our Training and Consultancy Program to suit your organisational needs, including any or all of the following:
- Work in collaboration with the organisation to identify objectives and the focus of the program, including targets, timescales and costs
- Evaluate the present situation by gathering facts and discussions both formal and informal with relevant staff and where appropriate the service users
- Provide a report outlining a strategy for improvement – for discussion and agreement before implementation
- Work with the organisation to implement the strategy, providing direct involvement as appropriate
- Consultation, training and support to enable the organisation to take charge of the strategy
- Review and handover
- Any further consultation to support the development as agreed
For further information and fee structures please contact office@lighthouseinstitute.org.au or 03 9093 7533.