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Five things to protect your mental health
World Mental Health Day 2025 – Five things to protect your mental health whatever you’re going through We all have mental health to look after in the same way as caring for our physical health. Here are our five ways of protecting your mental health. 1. Talking about it Talking about feelings can help make…
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New sponsor partnership SSAFA The Armed Forces Charity
SSAFA the Armed Forces charity confirms new licence to fund Togetherness.co.uk for British Forces families and children living overseas. The NHS team behind Togetherness, trusted provider of online learning focused on children’s emotional health and wellbeing is delighted to partner with SSAFA to increase access and emotional health support to the Armed Forces overseas community. …
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Positive co-parenting: Handling conflict when you’re no longer with your children’s other parent
Even if you’re no longer together, positive co-parenting is important for children and their longer-term wellbeing. Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Hazel Douglas MBE, shares her thoughts on resolving conflict when you live separately. Separation is never easy—especially when children are involved. Co-parenting after a breakup can stir up deep emotions for everyone involved.…
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Healthier ways to argue: When you need to rock the boat
When two people live together, they must navigate their individual needs on the back of different histories, expectations and family cultures. It may go smoothly most of the time, but it is normal to hit bumps in the road, unless you are both so accommodating of each other that you never put your own needs…
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Togetherness online learning for parents launches on WeChat
Togetherness has launched two online learning pathways for parents on the Chinese social media app, WeChat. Thanks to our partnership with Yingshu Zhang, Psychotherapist and Psychoanalysis Practitioner, this new online channel is an important step forward in expanding the Togetherness learning platform and sharing evidence-based practices internationally, reaching Chinese speaking practitioners, parents and families across…
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Health Visitors’ skills significantly enhanced after completing Solihull Approach training, Swedish study reveals
Togetherness is pleased to announce the findings of a new Swedish study demonstrating the impact of the Solihull Approach model in infant and toddler care, revealing how the approach significantly reshaped nurses’ attitudes, values, and working methods. Published in the Open Journal of Nursing*, the study, Specialist Nurses’ Experiences of Working with Parental Support in…
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How parents can raise emotional skills development for young boys
Adolescence – it’s the second most rapid period of brain development after those early months as a baby. Rewiring in the brain and all those new hormones surging means chaos for young boys trying to navigate school pressures, friendships, sexuality and their identity or role in society. Emotions are felt much more strongly than at…
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Mother’s Day: celebrating all mums trying their best
Amongst the busy preparations, expectations and gestures of ‘Mothering Sunday’ it’s time to recognise the parents showing up every day, being present and being ‘good enough’ for their children, to whom for much of their lives they are the whole world. “There is no such thing as a ‘perfect parent’, even though we may wish…
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Understanding anxiety
Feelings of anxiety, worry or stress are common. At some point, everyone will experience these feelings to some degree – although the stressors may be different. Dr Hazel Douglas MBE, Clinical Psychologist and Child Psychotherapist, shares her insights on anxiety. She suggests how adults and parents can support themselves, as well as equipping their children…
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Togetherness expands to India with new Licensed Centre in Mumbai
Togetherness has confirmed a new licensed centre in India, marking a significant milestone in expanding its evidence-based training. Thanks to a new partnership with Stepping Stones Paediatric Therapy Services, led by Mahek Uttamchandani, Consultant Occupational Therapist, practitioners across India can now access the renowned Togetherness 2 Day Foundation training. The establishment of this licensed centre…