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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). A Listed Practitioner with The Theraplay Institute, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy network and The Centre for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI. Wave Connections is registered as a provider of service with Pan Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and Essex Local Authorities, Wolverhampton, Aspire Adoption, Adopt South West. 
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, ensuring  the intervention matches the part of the brain a child mainly functions within. 

Carly  Barrett-Greening

Carly has over 24 years of experience working with children and families within long term foster care and adoption. First supporting children in care in 1996. Her own family experienced private fostering.
Carly is compassionate about connection and gaining joy via relationships. Appreciating that connection can be challenged due to early life trauma and experiences her compassion comes from wishing to find a space for healing and relational repair where individuals may shift from mistrust to trust and find a 'space to blossom'. 
​We are social beings who survive via relationships and identity. Knowing the powers of gaining oxytocin a natural chemical in our bodies that release joy and pleasure and how this maybe reached via the interventions below. 

Carly Barrett-Greening is a:
- fully certified Theraplay Practitioner.
- A Certified dyadic developmental Psychotherapy Practitioner (DDP)
- 2010 became A Children's Yoga Teacher and practitioner
- A certified Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator.
- Facilitator of the 'Just Right State' Sensory Attachment Integration program.
Trainer for Nurturing Attachment Therapeutic Parenting Program

Her background includes:
- Studying Social Science and attachment studies since 1998.
- 1998 studied Psychology, counselling and management diplomas as part of the Welfare diploma.
- Qualifying as a Welfare Officer in 2000,
- Qualified as social worker in 2002.

Carly has experience of undertaking Private fostering within own family.

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.

Since 2013 Carly Specialising as post adoption Social Worker with Families for children adoption charity: working with therapists, psychologists and occupational Therapists as part of therapeutic life story work, sensory integration interventions, dyadic working. 

In 2013 studied Mindful Yoga for Young People's Emotional Health:

Dr Lana Jackson and Dr Lucy Clark clinical child psychologists taught to deliver eight week program.

This training was adapted as a Mindfulness & Yoga program for Adoptive Children’s and Parent Emotional Health.

In 2016,  the Adoption Support Fund and Department for Education  in England reviewed the Mindful Yoga For Young People's emotional Health Program and agreed to be an ‘in scope’ service under the Governments Adoption Support Fund. 

2019 qualified as a Facilitator of the 'Just Right State Children and Parent Program' Eadaoin Bhreathnach. Sensory Attachment Program. 2019 undertook train the trainer Nurturing Attachments Therapeutic parent Program with Kim Golding. 

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.