Navigating the journey of brain injury together

Restoring hope and resilience through psychological intervention for families

The family experience of brain injury can be challenging and overwhelming. We are here to provide compassionate support and specialist psychological therapies to your client’s family members, including the children of brain injury survivors.

At Connect Neuropsychology, we understand the unique challenges and impact that brain injuries have on families, often resulting in traumatic experiences and emotional distress. To help support your clients’ families, we provide a wide range of specialist relationship-focused psychological support services designed to address the unique needs of the adult and child relatives of people with brain injuries.

Dr Audrey Daisley, firmly believes that brain injury recovery happens within the context of a well-supported family unit. She has decades of experience in helping family members of ABI survivors navigate the complexities of brain injury and its impact on family emotional adjustment, roles, relationships, dynamics, and hope.

Through tailored sessions with Audrey, family members, including child relatives, are provided with a safe space for open communication and emotional processing, fostering resilience and the rebuilding of relationships. Audrey’s approach focuses on equipping families with practical strategies to enhance their coping skills and knowledge of brain injury, promoting open communication, and fostering emotional wellbeing.

Psychological Intervention

Psychological therapies for adult relatives of brain injury survivors

Relatives of people with brain injuries often grapple with significant psychological adjustment issues, including grief, ambiguous and complex feelings of loss, role changes and uncertainty, stress associated with caregiving, emotional distress, and challenges maintaining relationships and social contacts. These adjustments can have a profound impact on family wellbeing and require specialist support. Audrey draws upon a range of therapeutic approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotionally focused couples and family therapy (EFT), Narrative Therapy (NT) and trauma-informed therapies. Using tailored, formulation-based therapies, we can help guide families through the processes of acceptance, adaptation and emotional wellbeing through a combination of mindfulness practice, values-based goal setting, coping skills enhancement and effective communication strategies. Our evidence-based approach aims to empower families to navigate and live with the emotional complexities of life after brain injury.

Specialist Psychological therapy with child relatives

Children of parents with brain injuries, like their adult relatives, often face significant emotional and developmental challenges that can have a profound impact on their well being, behaviour and psychological adjustment. These require specialist psychological support, which is typically difficult to find within both the public and private sectors, often leaving this group of children’s needs unmet. At Connect Neuropsychology, due to Audrey’s recognition as an expert in working with the child relatives of ABI survivors, we can offer the unique psychological support that your client’s children require. Audrey, having pioneered this work in the UK over several decades, can work with children of all ages drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches such as ACT, psycho-education and play and trauma informed therapies to help children, and the adults supporting them, to navigate the challenges associated with having a brain injured parent.

Supporting parenting with a brain injury

It is tough being a parent, and ABI survivors who are already parents or are considering becoming a parent, face huge barriers in accessing the necessary support to enable them in this key life role. Dr Audrey Daisley understands the unique challenges these parents face as they navigate the complexities of parenthood in the context of few specialist services. She is dedicated to providing a safe and nurturing environment in which ABI survivors can explore their parenting concerns, can develop effective coping strategies and enhance their parenting skills. Our goal is to empower ABI survivors in their parental role, foster resilience and support the development of strong relationships with their children. To support those working with the client, Audrey can also offer care and treating teams specialist training and support in how to enable ABI survivors in their parental role.

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