Equipt Therapy Services

25/04/2026

And this is why we will always promote creative based therapies for children and families 🙌

Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun

25/04/2026

Love ❤️ this! Always loved bedtime reading with our son, but it was dad who made it more fun with all his accents and voices that I can’t do 😂

Bedtime stories are far more powerful than most parents realize. Research shows that when fathers read to their children, vocabulary development accelerates up to 40 percent faster than in children who are not read to regularly. The unique way fathers engage with stories, often introducing unfamiliar words and asking open-ended questions, stretches a child's language abilities in meaningful ways.

When mothers read bedtime stories, a different but equally important benefit emerges. Children's stress levels drop by approximately 20 percent. A mother's voice carries a deeply familiar comfort that regulates the nervous system and signals safety, making it easier for children to transition into restful sleep.

Together, both parents reading creates a layered developmental experience. Language growth, emotional regulation, and bonding all strengthen simultaneously through this single nightly habit.
Reading aloud also builds literacy foundations long before formal schooling begins. Children exposed to consistent bedtime reading enter school with larger vocabularies, stronger listening skills, and greater ability to focus.

The investment is small. Fifteen minutes each night is enough to create measurable change over months and years. No expensive toy or program can replicate what a parent's voice and a book can offer. The simplest habits often carry the deepest impact.

25/04/2026

25/04/2026

If someone is so focused on bringing you down, it says more about them than you. Don’t change your standards or sense of self to please others. Genuine people stand out and that’s difficult for people that don’t have a sense of security to manage. But the ones that are genuine too always have your back. Let them hate because life always comes full circle ⭕️

25/04/2026

Gorgeous weekend 😍 Get outside and feel the sunshine ☀️

🖋️ ehixojie

24/04/2026

This is exactly why providing a safe home and love for traumatised children is often not enough, it doesn't fix the nervous system and why adopted children often need long term therapy to support rewiring the pathways in their brain to allow them to be loved by their parents. Josh MacAlister MP love ❤️ is not enough and the current ASGSF limit is certainly not either. Action against ASGSF changes

Clients may want closeness.

But their trauma makes it feel unsafe.

**TOMORROW** (4/24), we are offering a free viewing of How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships.

Broadcast times: 9:00am, 1:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:00pm EST

Use this link to sign up! ➡️ https://www.nicabm.com/program/master-program-on-treating-trauma-7/?del=4.23.2026FBPost2

24/04/2026

The OTIS Project is a perfect way to introduce a child who's adopted, under a special Guardianship / Kinship or a child in care to child-centered creative therapies at no cost to their fair access budget 😀 Block 3 will close for referrals by next Friday so get your referral in or feel free to ask more. Barnsley Council Fostering Barnsley

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23/04/2026

Being in the heart ❤️ of Barnsley and 5 minutes walk from the interchange means we are in a prime position to be accessible by the surrounding towns and cities as well as our Barnsley families. We support families from Wakefield, Rotherham, Sheffield and Doncaster who want a child-centered creative therapy and family approach 😀 We offer Art Therapy, Dramatherapy, Music Therapy, Play Therapy, Theraplay, Filial Therapy, DDP, NVR, EMDR, Just Right State, Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy, Attachment Assessments (CAPA), MIM assessment, Therapeutic Parenting programme (fully funded), Great Childhoods Ambition Groups for children and carers (fully funded).

23/04/2026

Non of us are perfect parents, but reflecting on parenting and adapting what you do can ensure you do the best you can. Our next Pathways to Positive Parenting programme will start in September 🙌

Your child doesn't need a perfect parent. They need a real one like YOU ❤️

23/04/2026

Fostering Barnsley 🙌 We want Barnsley children to stay in their home town. Did you know that our OTIS project is aimed at offering small group support to children in care and their foster carers. Get in touch to know about the next groups starting soon 😄

Do you know someone who’d be brilliant at this?
Sometimes the people best suited to a role like this don’t think of themselves as candidates. If someone comes to mind, a friend, a family member, a colleague. Why not share this with them?
Every share gets this in front of someone new.
barnsley.gov.uk/specialistfostercarerscheme

22/04/2026

We never get tired of hearing this comment! We're hearing this more and more from social workers out of area that haven't used us before 🙌 It feels incredible to hear this every single time 👏 "You were recommended". Reputation is key and its built upon hard work and a genuine wish to achieve good for families.

21/04/2026

Stories from Kirk Balk School teen years from 50s to 90s. Funded through One story was mine 😭 Watching my teen years play out and chatting with the teens that played me afterwards was a very powerful experience. They did absolutely amazing 👏 Barnsley Council Barnsley CVS It was a pleasure to be completely honest and say "teen years are tough and life gets better"! Don't tell your teens that it was the best time of your life. Be honest, say yes that was tough, hear them, it helps!