Welcome to Aspire

Ms Sarah Rose is a Senior Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Trainer with over 25 years of clinical experience in UK’s mental health services, within Statutory, Educational and Charity sectors. Sarah has a Masters in Systemic Family Psychotherapy and post graduate qualifications in Youth & Community Work. 

She is a specialist in working with young people, families, couples and individuals across lifespan and relational trauma. She is experienced in supporting clients through a wide range of presentations such as familial relationship; adoption & attachment; self-harm; identity (gender & sexual); grief & loss: domestic & sexual & gang violence; Autism Spectrum Conditions and social anxiety; complex PTSD including where issues related to chronic health and mental health diagnosis impact on the individual and the family system. 

She has worked with young people and individuals who have been trafficked, are asylum seekers, and looked after children all using a trauma-informed approach. 

She uses Systemic and Narrative therapy and is experienced in using evidence based approaches such as EMDR. She uses Mindfulness and Compassion-Focused Therapeutic techniques within her work.

She uses Narrative Methodologies such as Tree of Life & Team of Lifewith individuals, families, groups (e.g whilst at Freedom from Torture); in international contexts, at the Street Child World Cup in Rio 2014; with street connected women and mothers in South Africa 2019, with a Community project in Bethlehem 2016; Staff working with Street children 2013 & 2018.

She is passionate about enabling clients a secure and safe base where they can explore as individual’s or within the wider familial system, distressing and challenging emotions, find ways to manage unhelpful behavior’s, communicate these in ways that enable opportunities to heal and then to thrive.

Sarah has co-written and led numerous Parenting Programs ‘Transform Living with Teenagers’ (2007), within local contexts and Nationally for The Guardian Newspaper London. This aims to enable parents to look at their own parenting styles, how they communicate; how they were parented; finding useful ways of responding to behaviours of concern; what their hopes and dreams are for themselves, their children and their families as they navigate the opportunities and challenges within family dynamics.

Sarah uses a non-judgmental approach to her work believing that each person has the capacity in themselves to heal and that in recognizing and understanding the impact of their experiences on themselves. 

Sarah offers Consultation, Supervision & training to individuals and groups within a variety of context, from education to social care where issues connected to vicarious trauma are present and the impact of an individual on the wider system can create uncertainty and challenges. Sarah believes in working collaboratively with agencies connected to the family system as and when appropriate as a means to support, understand and create safe context for long-lasting change.

Sarah is trained to deliver a range of evidence-based treatments including: 

- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, EMDR Academy

- Certificate in Clinical Supervision, Institute for Individual Psychology, Adlerian Society UK - Cambridge

- MSc Systemic Family Therapy, Kensington Consultation Centre, London

- Certificate in the Theory of Family and Couple Therapy in Systemic Practice, Institute of Family Therapy, London - London

- Post Graduate Certificate in Community and Youth Work, The University of Birmingham - Birmingham