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A Family run team.

Wave Connections is managed by Carly Barrett-Greening.  Registered Social Worker under regulating body HCPC. Registered with British Association of Social Work (BASW). Wave Connections is registered as a provider of service with Pan Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and Essex Local Authorities. Direct intervention and support come under the umbrella of the local authority commssioning  intervention. All policies and proceedures for safeguarding, data protection and health and safety can be viewed on request.
Wave Connections was born out of a service named Little Blossoms Yoga that was established in 2010. Providing Yoga Intervention with children who experienced, trauma, neglect and potential abuse and who are in care of local authority.   Attachment based interventions are key to delivery of Wave Connections Programs. Using a neurosequential mode of working with children. Assess developmental trauma, ensuring  the intervention matches to the part of the brain a child mainly functions within. 

Carly  Barrett-Greening

Studying Social Science and attachment studies since 1998. From 1998 studied Psychology, counselling and management diplomas as part of the Welfare diploma. Initially qualifying as a Welfare Officer in 2000, qualified as social worker in 2002. Carly’s background is therapeutic Social Work Specialising in adoption and mental health. Carly has experience of undertaking Private fostering within own family. Due to a love and seeing the importance of direct work with children, Carly qualified in Yoga for children in 2010. Specialising with children in care since 2006 implementing Theraplay principles within practice with children and birth parents as part of integrating children back into birth families. 2009- 2012: 3 years study in Specialist post graduate Degree in Children and Families to include, child development studies, psychology, neuroscience, Tavistock Child Observation skills training, practice teaching, Assessment Skills to include assessing environmental factors, child development and parenting capacity. During the above qualification, carly studied under Julie Selwyn Hadley Centre research for fostering and adoption. 2013 Specialising in therapeutic Social Worker in post adoption: working with therapists, psychologists and occupational Therapists as part of therapeutic life story work, sensory integration interventions, dyadic working. Therapeutic social work is underpinned with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy principles and Parenting, undertaking level one DDP in 2013 and level 2 2015. Carly is a DDP practitioner in training.  Dr Vicky Sutton, child psychologist is  supervisor for DDP. Offering Attachment in schools training, specialist life story work training to local council, delivering Therapeutic Parenting Training as part of perspective adoptive parents preparation program. In 2013 studied under Dr Lana Jackson and Dr Lucy Clark clinical child psychologists to deliver eight week Mindfulness & Yoga stress reduction program for Young People’s Emotional Health. This training was adapted as a Mindfulness & Yoga program for Adoptive Children’s and Parent Emotional Health. In 2016, Carly worked with the Adoption Support Fund and Department for Education  in England. Together the program was reviewed by the department for education and agreed to be an ‘in scope’ service under the Governments Adoption Support Fund. 2018 became a Fully Certified Theraplay Practitioner. 2017 completed module one Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). Currently undertaking specialist Trauma studies Certification program in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapist (TCTSY) to become a trauma focused Yoga therapist to use as a adjunctive therapy.

​TCTSY is developed by David Emmerson from Trauma Centre Massachusetts and researched by Bessel Van De Kolk. Implementing the ‘Just Right State’ Sensory Attachment Intervention program enhances capacity to Sensitively Work with the body and integrating body & mind naturally lend itself to play, curiosity, compassion and empathy for self and others and most of all have a common link to Theraplay and DDP in offering acceptance, empathy, curiosity and playful attitude while working with children and families. Currently managing Wave Connections and training and direct therapeutic support service in Dorset for children who have experienced trauma, loss, bereavement, adopted or in care of local authority.
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Richard Barrett- Greening

Richard has worked within residential homes for looked after children since 1992. Worked within residential  schools for Children with learning disabilities. He has undertaken studies in social work.  For many years Richard had a mobile disco and encouraged young people to utilise the power of music in healing hurts from a traumatise background.  He has a compassion for IT and computer design and is very much in the background in delivery  of Wave Connections marketing and technology design. A shared wish for the programs and interventions Wave Connections wish to deliver to Children and Families across the south west of England. 

Katie Vaughan 

Katie Vaughan has over 20 years of experience working within Kingston Maurward College. Katie Vaughan is our Business Support. Katie was adopted in the 1980's where the regulations and procedures were very different. Katie understands the value of life story work with adopted children, to understand their story and Theraplay to help them accept and process their adoption. These were not available when Katie experienced her adoption process and she found it difficult to understand her life story until later in life.
Katie worked in Further Education at Kingston Maurward College for 15 years. She worked as a teacher of Business Administration, Management and Customer Service. She taught students from 16 upwards. Katie was a course manager and as part of her role she managed pastoral care,  referring students for support internally and externally to the college.
Katie also worked with teenagers looking for employment, teaching them employment skills and engaging them in Apprenticeships with local employers.
Katie has worked with local organisations teaching employment skills and helping children who are in care or have been excluded from mainstream school, find a suitable career.
Katie now works in a Primary setting, assisting children in the classroom. She is undertaking a Primary focused child development qualification.