Health and Wellbeing

Place2Be - Therapeutic Support

Place2Be offers mental health support for children, young people, families and staff members in schools and in the community across Wandsworth.

Place2Be Therapeutic Support in Primary and Secondary Schools

A whole school approach to improving children and young people’s wellbeing.

Children and young people can self-refer, be referred by parents, school staff or other professionals.

The offer is available in majority of primary schools and all secondary schools in Wandsworth.

School Services:

One-to-one counselling - Children and young people receive a weekly session with a  trained counsellor for a course of up to 10 sessions. For more information, please visit Place2Be: Mental Health Services for Pupils.
Parents and Carers - support for parents-carers to reflect on their relationship with their children, identify significant events in their own lives that may impact their parenting, develop parenting skills, and better understand their children's behaviour. For more information, please visit Place2Be: Mental Health Services for Parents and Carers
Group work - weekly sessions with groups of children and young people, focusing on issues such as friendship, bullying, or transition to secondary school.
Journey of Hope – This manualised group intervention supports pupils in Primary and Secondary Schools. The group provides the opportunity to better understand emotions, recognise stressors and develop positive coping strategies for worries and stress through experiential activities and dialogue.
Place2Talk - Self-referral service during lunch time for children and young people. They can attend individually or in small groups.
Place2Think – Offers a consultative space to school staff to enhance understanding of children and young people’s needs and behaviours and to improve the emotional literacy of the school community. For more information, please visit Place2Be: Mental Health Services for Staff.
Training - Place2Be provides training for school staff and parents-carers to further develop and enhance parental and communication skills.

Community offer:

Place2Be support Young People aged 11-18 in Key stage 3+, to enhance their emotional well-being through one-to-one counselling. We are based around 3 community hubs in Wandsworth. Referrals come from CAMHS SPA and directly by the Secondary schools.

For more information, please visit Place2Be: Mental Health Support for Young People in Wandsworth.

Staff, parents-carers and children and young people can find the service through their schools. The Wandsworth area contacts are [javascript protected email address] and [javascript protected email address].