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Animal  & Play Assisted Therapy & Training

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Principle Trainer - René Chorley

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Credentials

BA Degree in Early Childhood Education

 

Certified Life Coach (MBIT)

 

Certified Childcare Professional (CCP) USA

 

Theraplay Practicum (Chicago)

 

Parental Mental Health and the Impact on children

 

NVQ III Youth Work

 

NVQ III Child Protection

 

D32/D33 City and Guilds

 

Managing stress and well-being

 

Safeguarding adults and children

 

Challenges of engaging with families

 

Impact of abuse and neglect

 

Certified Health and Safety

 

Young people in crisis

 

Woman’s Rape and Sexual Abuse

 

Working with Eating Disorders

 

Attachment and risk in families

 

Childhood Grief

 

Managing violence and aggression

 

Menial Health First Aid UK

 

Member of IFL

René has delivered training on effects of abuse on children and the family relationships both in UK and USA. She had developed the Acorn Parenting Group pack for delivery of group sessions for parents whose children have been affected by domestic abuse. She started Theraplay® in 2007 and is now in the Practicum and receives supervision from the Theraplay® Institute in Chicago.

 

René delivers therapeutic services to children and parents who have experienced trauma and abuse for Cornwall Women’s Refuge Trust (CWRT) for which she also manages all projects and operations. René founded Noah’s Ark Family Project in 2010. This project has delivered therapeutic work for Wandsworth Social Care, Somerset Children Services, Cornwall Child and Family Services as well as for families and community groups.

About us

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René Chorley was born in Southern Africa and grew up in Zimbabwe.  She has a BA Degree in Early Childhood Development and Education and has worked with children for 25 years. She has served as Principal of Dawncliffe  School (South Africa) and Director of Giant Steps Development Centre (USA), She spent 13 years in South Africa working with children who had been traumatized, lost their parents or been abandoned and here gained the empathy for children with poor early years experiences (Durban Boys home). She then moved to the USA and continued her work but specialized in working with ‘dysfunctional families’ and undertook further studies in child development and parental attachment.

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