Trauma Informed Care & Therapy
About The Behaviour Clinic
Founded in 2017, The Behaviour Clinic was created to support children living with the impact of childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Since then, we have supported over 1,000 families including adoptive, foster, special guardian, and birth families through tailored, evidence-based care.
Our team brings together a wealth of experience, with many colleagues having been part of the clinic since its foundation. From the beginning, we have been committed to providing services that are thorough, high-quality, and bespoke to each child and family’s needs. Today, we offer a wide range of services that work holistically together, including specialist assessments, trauma informed support for parents and carers, a host of therapies, widely used training programmes, and dedicated services for fostering teams and residential care providers.
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About The Behaviour Clinic
The Team at The Behaviour Clinic are the creators of both the TRIBE model of trauma-informed care and the Five Approaches to Life Story Work—two frameworks that are now widely recognised and used across the sector. Our work has been published in academic journals and presented at international conferences, sharing our expertise on how to best support children and families who have experienced trauma.
We are proud to run the therapeutic support service for Cwm Taf Morgannwg, where we work with hundreds of care-experienced children and their families each year, and partner with several residential care providers who use the TRIBE model in their homes to support children with highly complex needs.
Based from our purpose-built therapy clinic in Cardiff, we offer appointments on-site and travel to support children and families across South and Mid Wales and South West England.
Founder's Message
The Behaviour Clinic began as a passion more than 15 years ago—at that time, I was a practising social worker, working with children and families who had been deeply affected by ACEs and trauma. I could see the challenges they faced and the complexity of their struggles, but far too often I felt helpless. My social work training hadn’t equipped me to truly support children with such complex needs. I found myself on a continuous quest to find a better way to support families. One of my greatest frustrations was that almost all training and guidance was heavy on theory and light on practice, while the children in front of me needed practical, real-world solutions.
While raising my own young family and working full-time, I spent weekends travelling the country, learning everything I could about attachment, trauma, developmental delay, child psychology and therapeutic approaches. Each course gave me insights, but none fully addressed the complicated, overlapping needs of the children I was supporting. It was discovering behavioural science that finally pulled everything together. For me, it provided the missing piece: a scientific foundation that connected everything I had learnt over many years with real practice, giving me a way to design care that is truly trauma-informed and responsive to the lives and complex needs of real children and families.
Wanting to share what I had learnt I establish The Behaviour Clinic, an organisation rooted in using behavioural science and evidence to enhance therapeutic interventions, develop trauma informed care, and support families holistically. I have been privileged to build a team of highly skilled practitioners and to see our work recognised, presenting internationally, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and developing regional approaches to address trauma impact. But more importantly, I’ve seen children who had been carrying the heavy burden of their early life experiences begin to find safety, connection, and hope.
Today, The Behaviour Clinic’s focus remains the same as when I first started my journey: to bring evidence informed, practical support to children and families struggling with the impact of trauma, to create actionable support that delivers.
A Behavioural Approach
At The Behaviour Clinic, we know from experience that children need a holistic model of support—one that doesn’t focus on just a single area. After all, complex trauma impacts multiple aspects of a child’s life and leads to a wide range of needs and challenges. Without a holistic plan that considers developmental stages, sequential support, and includes the network around the child, the true impact of trauma can often go unseen, with deeper emotional and psychological needs left unaddressed.
Our approach is different: we bring elements together into a joined-up, trauma-informed plan—underpinned by behavioural science, attachment theory, and evidence-based practice—that provides the therapeutic and contextual support children need to move from surviving to thriving. We do this through our TRIBE trauma-informed care model, which incorporates evidence-based therapies.
Trauma Informed Care
TRIBE © is The Behaviour Clinic’s flagship model of trauma-informed care. Designed by our team of therapists and behaviour analysts, TRIBE brings together behavioural science, attachment theory, and evidence-based therapies into a single, practical framework.
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