Adult Services

The Ashwood Centre provides consultation to

a number of forums:

Individual therapy

Foster Carers – caring for traumatised children

Adoptive Parents – caring for traumatised children

Social Workers – Risk Management / Care Planning

Residential Carers – team building / caring for traumatised children / managing services therapeutically / emotional containment

Teachers – child development problems / autistic spectrum disorders / attachment disorders

Social Work Teams – team building / coping with specific traumatic events

Mental Health Teams

Therapy provides a reliable confidential relationship free from pressures of everyday life, where you can reflect and explore the way your relate to yourself and others.

Group Therapy

This can help you identify a tendency to repeat unhelpful patterns of behaviour that you would like to understand. It offers you strategies for changing the patterns and developing more satisfying relationships.

Couple Therapy

For adults who can’t talk to each other or fear the relationship is not working, or who feel they have lost the emotional connection with their partner.

Counselling

At times of crisis or transition counselling can provide you with support and someone to hear your story.

Aspergers Syndrome - Assessment & Interventions

Aspergers is a life-long condition and can be identified at any age. Click Here for more details...

The Ashwood Practice, part of the Baker Duncan Partnership, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey Specialist Private Assessment and Treatment Services across the whole spectrum of psychological/mental health conditions and childhood developmental problems, including Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and OCD. We offer a continuing service throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The clinical problems we commonly encounter include depression, deliberate self-harm, anxiety - in all its forms, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and adjustments reactions in individuals and families in relation to traumatic seperation (including bereavement of parents, children and siblings) or other family crises such as divorce and domestic/family violence.

We have developed specialist expertise in assisting families who have adopted children with attachment problems and we have also set up a therapeutic re-parenting scheme to support foster-carers who are struggling with very challenging behaviour in younger children.