Therapeutic Services
Cornerways Homes work with highly experienced and accredited psychologists and psychological therapists to ensure the care we provide is trauma-informed, needs-led and responsive.

Cornerways Homes we work closely with Meadows Psychology Service (MPS) to ensure our work has positive outcomes for the children, young people, and families we support. MPS is a clinical psychology led service that offers bespoke consultancy and therapeutic support services for providers of residential children’s care, education provisions, supported accommodation (16+) providers, and fostering and adoption services.
Meadows Psychology Service are a centre of excellence in trauma informed practice. The service is led by consultant clinical psychologists who have over 20 years’ clinical expertise, skills, and specialist knowledge of developmental trauma and attachment. By drawing on their wealth of experience and knowledge of relevant research and evidence-based practice principles, MPS provide Cornerways Homes with ongoing, tailored input. This helps to ensure that:
- We embed a trauma informed, therapeutic approach to our work.
- We provide a safe, secure foundation for all young people.
- All our young people are supported to experience safety within the child/caregiver relationship.
- Our staff teams are fully supported to engage in monthly consultations, reflective practice and bespoke training that enhances skills, knowledge and resilience when working within complex systems with young people who have experienced developmental trauma.
- Staff have a psychological understanding of each young person in placement, to ensure the care provided is evidence-based, trauma-informed and responsive to the child’s individual strengths and difficulties.
- We have access to specialist assessments to inform care plans where relevant.
- Our young people have access to tailored individual psychological therapy.
Meadows Psychology Service work to ensure all staff at Cornerways Homes recognise the importance of, and embody, the following values in their work:
- Empowering others – noticing, celebrating, and magnifying what is working and encouraging our staff to notice and reflect on their own and others’ resources, skills, strengths and positive qualities.
- Being inclusive – championing an environment where people feel able to bring their authentic selves to the work we do together.
- Having compassion – seeking to understand, care, and make meaning of individual and team experiences.
- Adopting an integrative approach which considers an array of knowledge and skills in relational trauma in all areas of our work.
- Being responsive and adaptive to the needs of our care staff, and the young people we support.
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