The Cambridge Forum for Children's Emotional Well-being is based at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. Find out more about our counselling courses.

Purpose

• To promote and extend the practice and development of psychotherapeutic counsellors in the region
• To offer a vibrant programme of courses and conferences which provide for the continuing professional development of psychotherapeutic counsellors
• To maintain the professional standards of psychotherapeutic counselling

Aims

• To promote and extend the practice and development of psychotherapeutic counselling and to enhance children's emotional well-being
• To promote high standards of training in psychotherapeutic counselling
• To promote high standards of practice in therapeutic work with children and young people
• To promote research and knowledge in the theory and practice of children's emotional well-being

Upcoming events

In 2024/25 we have two in person Forums and one online. We will not be running hybrid sessions. The theme of the Forums this year is working in an embodied way to deepen our practice.

Saturday 7th June 2025

10am to 12.30pm

In person at the Donald McIntyre Building, 84 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Many of the children we work with as therapists and educators present with difficulties that leave us wondering whether classroom intervention or therapeutic intervention might be best. Difficulties in emotional regulation, anxiety or being able to focus to learn can arise from a range of underlying starting points and to say too quickly ‘it’s an emotional issue’ or ‘it’s a learning issue’ can miss the embodied foundation of some difficulties that come from insufficiently integrated sensory experiences. Post Covid this may be a particular area of difficulty for children due to reduced opportunity for physical engagement with the world and others before starting school.

Charlotte Davies will present her insights on motor-sensory integration as a foundation for therapists and educators to develop a way of working alongside each other to support children who are struggling to access learning. Her work helps us as therapists and educators think about how we can identify a child’s needs in that that overlapping area where both emotion and learning are impacted by the body, by looking at our children’s global development in the areas of:

• Motor skills
• Sound processing skills
• Binocular vision and visual development
• Behaviour and self-regulation
• Cognitive skills

Charlotte will help us consider:

• What we can learn
• How we can remediate problems
• How we can support child development better on a timely basis
If you are a therapist – please invite a teacher! If you are a teacher -please invite a therapist!

You can discover more about Charlotte’s work here https://www.fit-2-learn.com

Please follow this link for information on past Forum events. 

Please contact Kat at ppd@educ.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the email list to receive information about upcoming Forum events.