Certificate in Post-Adoption Therapy for Children and Young People

Shirley Mearing 

Shirley is a qualified Creative Arts and Play therapist, Clinical and Professional supervisor and Filial play coach. She has a busy private practise in Kent working with children, young people and adults, along with parent and child together sessions, focussing on attachment, play and relationship. Shirley is a licensed PCAP (Parent and Child Attachment Play) practitioner. 

While living in London she worked in Family Placements supporting Foster Carers and their Looked after children, assessing Adopters and working in a therapeutic team to assist moving children on to adoption. She also managed a children’s centre in a  deprived area of South London.

She has worked for Education, Social Care, NHS, the Voluntary sector and charity organisations including Managing a Mental Health Team in the NHS and working as a Lay Therapist as part of the therapy team in a residential unit in Kent.

She has qualifications in working with loss and bereavement specialising in Pet bereavement and is also an EFT (Emotional Freedom techniques) Master Practitioner and a Laughter Therapy coach.

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Becky Hullet

Becky Lives in Nottingham, England. She runs a private practice where she offers a range of therapeutic interventions to support the needs of children, adults and families. She also offers consultations to parents, professionals and clinical supervision.

Becky has over 20 years of experience working therapeutically with a diverse range of children, young people and adults, and has worked within and alongside multi-disciplinary teams in the voluntary, public and private sector. Her career history is rooted within the field of Social care, Looked After Children and Safeguarding. It is here is that she developed her skills and knowledge in attachment theory and developmental trauma and inspired her to train to become a Play and Creative Arts therapist and an Integrative Psychotherapist.

Integral to her clinical practice is her work with local authorities, adoption, fostering and residential agencies. She is commissioned to provide psychotherapeutic support that integrates play and creative methods underpinned by attachment theory.  Becky is interested in the relational space between parents, carers and children and is passionate about supporting individuals to thrive.

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Kay Ataş

Kay is an Accredited Play Therapist, Senior Clinical Supervisor, Trainer and Adoptive mum.

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Kay has worked as a play therapist for a community CAMHS organisation and in primary schools. She practices mindfulness and set up a very successful whole school mindful based emotional well-being service in a two-form entry primary school. She now delivers this model “The BeMe Approach” as a workshop for school staff and therapists. As a supervisor Kay provides creative supervision for trainee and qualified therapists internationally, she supervises therapists who practice in a range of settings including children’s homes, Pupil Referral Units, Virtual Schools, hospices, primary and secondary schools and private practice.

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Kay has many years of experience working with adoptive children and their families as a therapist and also indirectly as a supervisor, she also offers consultation and support for adoptive parents. Kay’s own adoption journey began in 1995 and was integral in her decision to pursue a career as a play therapist. Kay is passionate about therapy, mindfulness and the complex and diverse area of adoption and how we in the helping professions can more adequately support this special population.

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