Meet Our Team

A Family run team.

Wave Connections is managed by Carly Barrett-Greening as a sole trader. Currently applying as a social enterprise / community interest group. Registered Social Worker under regulating body HCPC. Registered with British Association of Social Work (BASW). Public liability and professional indemnity insurance is affiliated with 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 unbrella 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.  ​Carly qualified as a social worker in 2002. Her experience within child protection gave her the compassion to deliver  direct work with children within the looked after care system. Alongside Theraplay and Dyadic developmental psychotherapy attachment based interventions are key to delivery of Wave Connections Programs. Yoga means 'to yolk' blend together mind and body. The value of such intervention has been evidenced through the changes in emotional health, education attainment, capacity for greater emotional regulation in young people. Please see other pages for specific outline of interventions. 

Carly  Barrett-Greening

Specialising in Children & Young People’s services for over 20 years, working with looked after children. Carly has experience of working with professionals, schools families and young people.
Carly has been running Mindfulness courses since 2013. Qualified as a Welfare Officer in 1999 gaining social work qualifications in 2002. Specialised as a Children’s Yoga Therapist in 2010 undertaking Yoga with toddlers to late teens.
Since 2013 Carly has specialised in child trauma, adoption and Mindfulness. She has achieved level two in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy training . A fully certified  Theraplay® Practitioner.
Carly has been delivering bespoke training within schools across Dorset for 3 years, assisting schools to become ‘attachment based schools’. Below is a testimony from one school.
‘Carly has assisted our school to become attachment aware, her knowledge is incredible and our relationships with children has significantly enhanced’’ Allenbourne School. Wimborne.
Having accredited the courses in 2016 with the CPD standards office, these courses have been reviewed as a provider of training under the Adoption Support Fund.
Teachers and professionals can gain CPD certificates for attendance while learning valuable tools and strategies for stress management, behavioural management, enhanced relationships, emotional regulations and greater effectiveness with young people.
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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. A teacher who provides direct work experience for young people to remain in education until they are 18 years. Katie has qualifications in management, is an NVQ assessor and IT Business management. Katie herself was adopted. She shared the value in Young People gaining access to emotional health programs to enhance coping strategies for today's world. Katie's experiences allow her to have both teaching experience, capacity to empathise with young people and have direct life experience of adoption. 
Her skills in teaching are invaluable in assisting Wave Connections to target programs that assist teachers in the classroom.