For Treasure Keepers work to be most effective and create the best level of change, the GEMS psychological therapy needs to be fully combined with the TREASURE therapeutic parenting.

 

TREASURE sessions offer a framework of therapeutic parenting intervention that is designed in a bespoke way for the needs of the child within their family (based on their assessment). It needs to be considered that the most influence for trauma resilience/recovery is held by the Parents/Carers. They provide the quality day to day care that changes the bodies, brains and relationships of their young people. Ultimately Parents and Carers skilled in daily therapeutic parenting and informed by their Young Person’s therapies are able to provide the ‘fix/move toward recovery or resilience’.

 

The ‘fix/move toward recovery or resilience’ is not something that is ‘done to the child’ through them attending psychological therapy sessions for a few hours a month.

 

The psychological therapy provides a space to explore behaviours and feelings and test out strategies to regulate these GEMS joint sessions are usually attended by both Children and their Parents/Carers.

 

GEMS sessions are neuro-sequentially organised to consider the building blocks needed for trauma resilience. These sessions can offer a space for the ‘live practice’ of the interventions suggested in the TREASURE sessions and to develop attachment relationships. They also aim to enable the Parents (Co regulators ) and the Child/Young Person to develop a skill set of tools to better manage their own nervous system and cultivate their stability, strength and sparkle.

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