We provide access to specialist mental health support for children and young people through empowering therapeutic services that are backed by research and informed by our 25+ years of experience.
Supporting mental health and emotional well-being within schools.
How much does it cost?
Our Breaking Barriers service is a paid service and provides bespoke support via a menu of different services, including advice and support for families and school staff.
We work with you to accommodate allocated budgets along with potential support from our funded programmes.
What does it include?
Your service will be bespoke to meet your needs and in line with your schedule. All services include an accredited therapist, administration support from our CTS office, impact reporting and monthly clinical supervision for any therapist that is working with you (BCAP required).
HOW WE HELP:
1-to-1
Therapy/
Counselling
Guided
Group
Therapy
Staff
Counselling/
Supervision
Play Therapy
Play Therapy is the dynamic process between child and Play Therapist in which the child explores at his or her own pace and with his or her own agenda those issues, past and current, conscious and unconscious, that are affecting the child’s life in the present. The child’s inner resources are enabled by the therapeutic alliance to bring about growth and change. Play Therapy is child-centred, in which play is the primary medium and speech is the secondary medium.
Play Therapy encompasses many approaches but the foundation of all approaches is child-centred.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy is an established psychological clinical intervention, delivered by HCPC registered music therapists to help people whose lives have been affected by injury, illness or disability through supporting their psychological, emotional, cognitive, physical, communicative and social needs.
Music Therapists draw upon the innate qualities of music to support people of all ages and abilities and at all stages of life; from helping new born babies develop healthy bonds with their parents, to offering vital, sensitive and compassionate palliative care at the end of life.
Central to how Music Therapy works is the therapeutic relationship that is established and developed, through engagement in live musical interaction and play between a therapist and client. A wide range of musical styles and instruments can be used, including the voice, and the music is often improvised. Using music in this way enables clients to create their own unique musical language in which to explore and connect with the world and express themselves.
"Having a Murray Hall therapist at our school has been a saviour! They really are like superheroes for the children. I wish I could have them in everyday!"
- Head of School
Example Service Timetable:*
08:30 - 09:30: Drop-In Counselling (up to 3 pupils)
09:30 - 12:30: 1-to-1 Therapy (3 sessions)
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch/Break
13:30 - 15:30: Group-based Therapy Sessions (2 sessions)
15:30 - 16:30: 1-to-1 Therapy (1 session)
*Times and sessions can vary and is based on what works best for you.
AREAS OF SUPPORT
Recognised
& Accredited
CTS is award winning and recognised for our supportive services across the region - with a pool of BCAP accredited therapists.
25 Year
Track Record
Since 1994, Murray Hall has grown to become an established charity providing support across Sandwell and the Black Country.
Strong Local
Network
We are strongly connected with local schools, education providers and industry leaders, and use this network to inform our therapeutic practice.
