About Greenfields

Established in 2000, Greenfields has developed a national reputation as a high quality provider of therapeutic residential care and education to young people aged between 10 to 18 years.

Many of the young people living at Greenfields have a range of complex needs that more traditional approaches to care, health and education do not meet. They require a specialist service that has the resources, skills and experience to work in a fully integrated manner, whilst still retaining the ability to provide a nurturing, fun-filled living environment, and with the added advantages of stability, safety and unconditional regard.

Young people at Greenfields enjoy high levels of personal safety and value the many opportunities to develop confidence, self-esteem and appropriate attachments. They thrive in an environment where carers use their skills to promote positive affirmation, celebrate educational and social achievements and provide the therapeutic exercise and support to effect positive change.

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Many young people arrive at Greenfields in a state of conflict, having exhausted other channels of care and are often unwilling to accept ‘help’.

In order to create positive outcomes we apply knowledge, resources and psychological strength – the skills to help young people in our care. Our therapeutic practice is influenced by the self-actualisation principle and a belief that many antisocial emotions result from frustration of the more basic impulses of love, security and belonging. Our approach is highly child-centred and our individual care programmes, which provide stability, nurture, consistent behavioural boundaries and unconditional regard, underpin the foundations of individual learning as we strive to bring positive change to the lives of troubled young people.

Greenfields’ day-to-day care practices are highly structured and influenced by the input of our team of professional Psychotherapists, Art Therapists and Clinical Psychologists, to whom individual reference and consultation may be made as appropriate.