Welcome to UsefulPsychology!
Supporting families through recovery from trauma with psychological care
What do we offer?
Compassionate family support from lived and professional experience
We are a husband and wife team based in West Cornwall, covering the UK, working with families in recovery from trauma. Dr Emily Jane is a chartered Psychologist, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Practitioner and Expert Witness to the Family Courts, and Tom Jane is an Accredited Non Violent Resistance Practitioner, Supervisor and Trainer.
We enjoy working in creative and personal ways to meet the individual and complex situations families find themselves in. Having neurodiverse teens of our own, we very much live the philosophies that we teach, and can emphasise with everyday parenting challenges in the presence of trauma. Joyfulness and hope guides our work, and we like to feel that you gain a trusted companion you can share the sad times and celebrate the hard won victories with along your recovery journey with your child.
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What do we stand for?
◆ Trauma-informed family support
◆ Accessible and compassionate care
◆ Lived experience and empathy
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Where to find us
A warm, welcoming space for in-person and remote support
People often come to us in person at our clinic in Troon, near Camborne. Our space is welcoming and friendly and decidedly non clinical, based in rolling farmland on a restored mine heritage site.
There is accessible parking next to our door and within you'll find a living room space with comfy sofas, plenty of toys, sensory objects and games and cushions and mats for those who prefer to move around during sessions. Tea and coffee is available during sessions, and for children we offer a range of snacks. Some of our support can be accessed remotely.
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FAQs
Whilst we welcome all questions and concerns via email, or contact form, please visit our FAQs first, just in case we have answered your query already!
Do you take private work?
We believe in our work being free at the point of access. This means that the vast majority of our work is funded. We work mostly with looked after children in Adoption or Fostering Services or families supported by chid in need or child protection plans.
On very rare occasions we have been known to take on private work, but often will do this via third parties.
On very rare occasions we have been known to take on private work, but often will do this via third parties.
In person or remote?
Our parenting work, NVR and Therapeutic Parenting, can be done online but DDP with the child/young person needs to be done in our therapeutic space in Troon, Camborne. Whist online has many positives; we would encourage parents to come to our therapy space as face to face has an edge on online work.
Where are you located?
We are fortunate to have found an accessible therapy space on the renovated King Edward Mine site in Troon, Camborne. Not only is the site stunning and dramatic, set in an expansive beautiful rural landscape with the ruins of an old engine house close by, but there is ample parking and a café on site too.
The address is:
Unit 3, King Edward Work Spaces, Newton Moor, Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
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The address is:
Unit 3, King Edward Work Spaces, Newton Moor, Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
You can find us on google maps at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eAth9ktbfLGJYq97
You can find us via What3words using: ///cackling.rocked.news
Is the clinical space accessible?
Yes the therapy space is wheelchair accessible with disabled toilets available in the building. Should you have specific needs, please let us know.
How long is the wait if I’m funded by ASGSF?
The usual process is:
You talk with your lead professional who contacts us. We approach you and we agree to meet. At the meeting we talk about what brought you here and we share what we can offer. If we agree we will then write to your lead professional with our quote.
Your lead professional will then fill in the paper work and submit it to the Adoption Support Fund.
Currently, the Adoption Support Fund can take on average 6 weeks to process the application.
Once the funding is agreed, they will let your lead professional know, who will then let us all know and we will then find an agreeable time and date to start.
So, depending on the availability of everyone in the system, it can take 8 – 12 weeks between your professional asking us to work with you and our first therapy session.
You talk with your lead professional who contacts us. We approach you and we agree to meet. At the meeting we talk about what brought you here and we share what we can offer. If we agree we will then write to your lead professional with our quote.
Your lead professional will then fill in the paper work and submit it to the Adoption Support Fund.
Currently, the Adoption Support Fund can take on average 6 weeks to process the application.
Once the funding is agreed, they will let your lead professional know, who will then let us all know and we will then find an agreeable time and date to start.
So, depending on the availability of everyone in the system, it can take 8 – 12 weeks between your professional asking us to work with you and our first therapy session.
Contact
Unit 3, King Edward Mine,
Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 5 PM
Troon, Camborne
TR14 9HW
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 5 PM
Contact Us
HQ@usefulpsychology.org
HQ@usefulpsychology.org
Our Approaches
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Parenting
Non Violent Resistance
Expert Witness and Assessment
Individual and Team Supervision