Solution focused Interventions
We have over fifteen years experience of developing solution focused practice and have trained extensively in schools, social care teams, CAMHS, residential, secure and fostering settings to develop positive practice and creative solutions to working with young people, organisations and families.
Experienced & Professional
We are experienced, highly qualified professionals, with extensive experience of working in CAMHS, Social care, health and education settings with children and families.
We have developed creative innovative practice to achieve positive change.
Enabling Care also has a number of specialist associates with specific skills such as CBT, Theraplay, DDT, social stories and story stem interventions.
Sally Falkner
Enabling Care has been set up by experienced practitioner and manager Sally Falkner.
Sally has worked with children, young people and families for twenty two years respectively in a range of settings including education social care and health.
She is a qualified social worker with post qualifying child care awards, registered with the General Social Care Council and has an Enhanced CRB clearance.
Sally has worked as a practitioner, manager and service leader within CAMHS for the last twelve years and has trained extensively in all areas of children's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
She has a Post graduate diploma in systemic family therapy and have specialised in developing interventions including systemic family therapy, solution focused approaches, CBT, attachment and narrative models.
Sally is trained in a range of evidence based parenting interventions including Webster Stratton and Solihull; she is also a qualified teacher and has experience of providing training, consultation, supervision and developing projects and group work.
Sally has been a Practice Assessor for Social Workers for the last ten years, she is also a Practice Mentor Assessor for newly qualified social workers on the PQ Course.
Sally has also specialised in using creative art based interventions to create positive change with children and families
and is also a creative designer maker who makes and delivers workshops to children and adults in community settings and galleries.
Emma Pearce
Emma Pearce has 18 years experience of working within the social care sector with 8 years based in a CAMHS Children in Care team. Emma is currently practising as an independent specialist social worker prior to which she held a managerial post in a CAMHS team with a joint service level agreement with the Local Authority to provide a dedicated service for children in care from a multi-disciplinary team of health and social care professionals.
In addition to this Emma has worked as a therapeutic social worker and undertaken a wide range of social work roles within the statutory and voluntary sectors. Emma has a range of specialist skills such as Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, AIMs training, self-harm awareness and practises from an approach that is based within a systemic and attachment model. Emma has developed skills in individual work with children and adolescents, consultations to professionals, offering supervision and counselling to a broad range of professionals across social care, health and education settings.
Emma has engaged in developing and delivering training in attachment theory and therapeutic re-parenting which utilises aspects of Dan Hughes and Pat Crittenden's models of attachment, self harm assessment and awareness and working with children in the care system.
Creative Working
Sally has a particular interest in working in creative and collaborative ways with young people and families, and has trained for over fourteen years in the use of Solution Focused Approaches in schools, health and social care settings and have presented nationally and internationally.
Sally is frequently involved in research around children’s mental health and have presented lectures and seminars at universities.