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Assessment and Processes

Understanding each individual’s unique story is at the heart of effective therapy. That’s why we begin with assessments — to explore strengths, challenges, and patterns that may be impacting wellbeing. These assessments help both the therapist and client gain insight, build a shared understanding, and develop a tailored therapeutic plan moving forward.

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Why Are Assessments Important?

  • Help identify strengths and areas of difficulty

  • Support the development of a clear, personalised therapeutic plan

  • Provide a starting point for meaningful change

  • Use of psychometric tools to measure symptoms such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and attachment issues

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Initial Assessment

  • Focused on information gathering to understand presenting concerns and how they show up in daily life

  • Explores behavioural and emotional patterns, developmental differences, and relational dynamics

  • Includes psychometric tools to assess for anxiety, depression, dissociation, secondary trauma, stress, and attachment difficulties

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MIM (Marschak Interaction Method)

  • A structured observation of interactions between a child and adult through specific tasks

  • Helps assess the quality of relationships between birth, foster, or adoptive parents and children

  • Can be used with teachers, caregivers, and even adult children and their parents

  • Highlights patterns, relational dynamics, and areas of strength without placing shame or blame

  • Forms the foundation for Theraplay-informed treatment planning

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Adult Assessment

  • Comprehensive, integrative assessment exploring emotional wellbeing, including depression, anxiety, stress, secondary trauma, and burnout

  • Includes tools like the Temperament Inventory to understand personality traits and their impact on relationships

  • Features an attachment-focused life script interview, exploring childhood and adult relationships, worldviews, and internalised messages

  • Provides deep insight into how past experiences shape present responses and relationships​​

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Child & Young Person Assessment

  • Tailored to understand a child’s attachment style, relational perceptions, and impact of any trauma

  • Assesses for sensory processing differences, primitive reflexes, and signs of neurodivergence

  • Emphasises both strengths and areas of need

  • Offers a holistic view of the child’s inner world and external challenges to inform therapy

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