DDP is a attachment focused family therapy approach which incorporates well-researched principles such as a focus on relationships, attunement, intersubjectivity, and sensitive responsiveness. The primary goal of DDP is to support children in developing the ability to maintain attachment-based relationships with parents and caregivers. 

The DDP connects website provides the following information;

"The therapist helps the child’s relationship with their parents by talking with the child using an affective-reflective dialogue. This is a conversation that involves feeling as well as thinking. The therapist explores all aspects of the child’s life; safe and traumatic; present and past.

The therapist and parents’ intersubjective experience of the child helps the child get a different understanding. This becomes integrated into their autobiographical narrative. This in turn becomes more coherent.

In this way the child experiences healing of past trauma and achieves safety within current relationships. The conversations and interactions (verbal and non-verbal) within the therapy room are all based upon PACE. This means that the therapist will be playful, accepting, curious and empathic. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy involves the child and parents working together with the therapist. The child gains relationship experience which helps them to grow and heal emotionally. Family members develop healthy patterns of relating and communicating.

What can be expected following DDP? 

• The child will feel safer and more secure with their parents. 
• Controlling behaviours will reduce
• When stressed the child might return to old ways of relating and behaving. For example they might become more controlling again. However it will be easier to help the child feel less stressed. The child will then feel secure again
• The child will find relationships easier
• The child will regulate emotions more easily
• The child will manage stress better
• The child will understand their emotional experience better
• As the child is helped to heal from the past trauma they will become more emotionally healthy"

Information taken from the EMDR website

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful scientifically proven psychotherapy to help people recover from traumatic events in their lives which have led to poor mental health.

Overcoming the effects of trauma

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is a unique, powerful therapy that helps people recover from problems triggered by traumatic events in their lives. It stops difficult memories causing so much distress by helping the brain to reprocess them properly, working with memory to heal the legacy of past pain.

EMDR therapy is best known for treating PTSD but can help with a range of mental health conditions in people of all ages including depression and anxiety.

Internationally recognised, EMDR therapy is endorsed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; the World Health Organisation; The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; the NHS (in the UK); and many other bodies. There are more than 10,000 trained EMDR therapists in the UK alone, and it has helped millions of people worldwide.

The following information is taken from the integrated listening website.

The SSP isn’t just music — it’s a comprehensive approach to healing. This unique listening therapy is a journey that brings together the client, therapist and the SSP to create a safe space for brain and body integration and healing to achieve impactful, long-lasting results.

• Many clients who experience the SSP report fewer symptoms of anxiety, depression and trauma-related symptoms.
• Caregivers of children who experience the SSP report fewer psychosocial challenges.

Helps improve nervous system 

Enhances and accelerates the impact of other therapies, such as CBT, EMDR, SE, IFS, and neurodevelopmental treatments. regulation in children and adults to support many symptoms and conditions.