Bridge to Belonging
The Developmental Trauma Healing Journey
Course Summary
The Bridge to Belonging is a comprehensive 16 week live therapeutic group coaching programme designed especially for Adoptive Parents and Special Guardianship Order (SGO) carers. It aims to empower parents/carers to support their child's healing journey from experiences of
Developmental Trauma.
The programme provides knowledge, therapeutic tools and strategies together with professional and peer support to navigate the complex and specialist needs of children with more vulnerable nervous systems (whether through early trauma experiences, neurodevelopmental conditions or both)
Programme Overview:
The Bridge to Belonging programme is divided into three phases—Clarity, Connection, and Confidence—guiding parents through the process of understanding and supporting their adopted child’s recovery from trauma. The programme is accessible online and includes practical tasks, reflective exercises, and interactive learning tools.
Programme Structure:
Curriculum: Parents have lifetime access to the online platform, featuring training videos, handouts, and interactive tasks.
Coaching: Two individual coaching calls (onboarding and review) and up to 3 hours of live group coaching per week for 14 weeks. Additional monthly support is available post-programme.
Community: IN addition to the small group coaching. Parents/carers also get access to a private online space (not on social media) for ongoing peer/professional support between coaching calls.
Key Elements:
Small Groups: Coaching groups are limited to 4-6 families, with both daytime and evening Zoom sessions available;
Holistic Support: Parents are guided through each phase with practical, trauma-informed parenting strategies;
Outcome Focus: Parents set goals, complete outcome measure questionnaires, and receive a completion certificate and report with further recommendations for their child’s therapeutic needs.
Combines professional therapeutic and peer support with practical,
trauma-informed parenting tools.
Course Curriculum
Emma-Jayne Browne
Hello! I'm Emma-Jayne, I'm a qualified Child Therapist, Adult Psychotherapist and Parent Coach with over 23 years experience of working therapeutically with children and families.
I live in North Yorkshire, England with my husband, 2 now almost adult daughters and little dog, Maggie.
I am passionate about empowering parents/carers to support and transform their child's emotional/mental health. I am fascinated by the human brain and the mind-body connection and I love translating Relational Neuroscience (the parts of the brain and nervous system that keep us in connection with ourselves and others) for parents/carers and making it practical, useful, and ultimately- life changing for families.
I believe wholeheartedly in the transformational power of the parent-child relationship and that any healing within a child has to start with supporting the parent.
Recovery from my own lifelong struggle with anxiety and parenting 2 children with significant anxiety/neurodiversity has led me to develop this easy to implement method of empowering parents to transform their child's excess anxiety and/or early childhood trauma into resilience and inner strength
I created my 2 Therapeutic Parenting programmes (Raising the Brave & Bridge to Belonging ) as a result of seeing the increase in child anxiety issues, particularly since Covid, together with a lack of resources in the UK. This motivated me to combine my 23 years clinical experience and specialist training with my own lived experience of what really works on a deep level to transform Anxiety & Developmental trauma into greater Resilience, Confidence and Healing
I know these programmes are life changing and I feel honoured I get to be on this journey with you. Can't wait to meet you on the other side...
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