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Laura Lower

Laura Lower

Head of Therapy and Safeguarding Lead at the Pears Family School; systemic family psychotherapist with 17+ years experience in social care, CAMHS, and education.

Jun 7, 2026

11:57
Laura, uh.
11:58
Uh, well, I was just gonna say, and I think, I think, um, I, I'm not sure, you know, I think you, you said some of it, Myra, in terms of the, the, the aim of the school is to help-The, the, you know, children who arrive here often have, children and their families, have often experienced a real period of kind of social isolation or social thinning where they've been quite excluded from systems.
12:23
They end up kind of, uh, you know, often being the families that there's a lot of blame and shame and rejection and, and, and really being outside of a system.
12:33
Um, and I think so when, when they do come to us, the, the...
12:38
Very early on in the engagement with a, with a new family, it, it's kind of really crucial that we, we do that initial engagement with real curiosity and warmth and joining with the family so that we, we really get to start to hear their voice and, and be able to do that.
12:54
And, and we do a lot of kind of permission-seeking in that time where we're really checking if it's all right to ask the questions we're asking.
13:01
We're really checking if the language we're using is fitting for them, and if they'd like us to use different language.

15 MINS LATER

28:32
Yeah

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