Freud called teaching “the impossible profession” but educating children is essential

We can help you

  • Work smarter and more effectively

  • Balance systemic intervention with daily support

  • Maintain your passion over time

  • Avoid burnout

Services, training & resources for educators

Supervision and reflective spaces

Constellations Psychology provides evidence-based, impactful reflective spaces to support school staff to sustain high quality work over time.


Our approach
:

  • Evidence-based: we use models and tools which have been shown to help in peer-reviewed research.

  • Containment: we help you unpick and process the emotions that come with your role, so you can do your best work, for your staff and the children in your school.

  • Challenge: we commit to helping you develop as a leader and practitioner.

  • Compassion: we help unpick the trickiest of situations, to help with the hardest things.

Our services are different because we:

  • Build long term relationships with settings, so our work improves over time.

  • Deliver bespoke services which meet the “expert at hand” needs in your specific context.

  • Support leaders and systems, as well as day-to-day practice.

  • Provide experienced practitioners, with at least a decade of experience providing reflective spaces in school.

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Compassion Focussed Coaching

Compassion Focussed Coaching (CFC) is a peer-reviewed and evidence-based group coaching model, developed with senior leaders in education. Designed using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, featuring approaches backed by hundreds of scientific studies.


CF
C is shown to:

  • Increase resilience

  • Increase ability to understand complex student behaviour

  • Increase the ability to give/receive compassion

CFC is effective because:

  • Developed using 5 years of research with senior leaders

  • Designed using evidence based approaches to facilitate strategic thinking in sessions

  • Incorporates approaches shown to reduce burnout.

  • Our Lead Psychologist, Jo Taylor, has been delivering supervision in schools since 2015.

CFC is useful if you:

  • Use “experts at hand” to provide systemic support in your setting.

  • Prioritise employee wellbeing and retention.

  • Work in a fast paced, high stakes environment.

  • Care deeply about leadership systems and processes.

  • Want to reflect and plan efficiently.

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Educational Psychology

Constellations Psychology provides a full range of high quality child and educational psychology services.


Our approach
:

  • Collaborative: we work together at every stage.

  • Sustainable: we ensure recommendations are easy to understand and apply.

  • Evidence based: we stay up to date with the latest approaches, so our work is as impactful as possible.

  • Compassionate: we help unpick the trickiest of situations, to help with the hardest things.

Our services are different because we:

  • Provide experienced “experts at hand” to facilitate meaningful support.

  • Like to build long term relationships with settings, so our work improves over time.

  • Focus on preventative and systemic approaches, to use time most effectively

  • Specialise in training staff, so you can do even better work, all day, every day.

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Kind word from our clients

  • “This has been transformational in my further development as a leader. The two weekly sessions have provided an excellent platform to be reflective within a supportive environment”

    Senior Leader in the Education Sector

  • “Without Jo's sessions I would have struggled to… move on from issues that had previously seemed insurmountable and put in place practical plans to move forward”

    - Head of Internal Alternative Provision

  • Working with Jo was..." genuinely inspirational because I felt secure enough to be open knowing that he was willing to take the time to delve deeper into whatever I was bringing to the table for discussion”

    Gill LaRocque
    Headteacher, Saffron Valley Collegiate