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Specialist Support for Kinship and Foster Carers
Supporting kinship and foster carers with tailored, trauma-informed guidance, practical strategies, and compassionate support. Whether you’re new to fostering or have years of experience, I help you navigate challenges, build confidence, and create a nurturing environment where children in your care can heal, grow, and thrive.
Kinship and foster carers play a crucial role in the lives of children who have often experienced trauma, loss, or early adversity. I provide tailored support to help carers understand the complex emotional, behavioural, and developmental needs of children in their care.
With over 20 years of experience supporting vulnerable children and young people, I empower carers with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to meet each child where they are — helping them heal, grow, and thrive.
Children in care often present with a complex mix of emotional, behavioural, neurodevelopmental, attachment, educational, and mental health needs, and are frequently misunderstood. Foster and kinship carers play a vital role in helping these children thrive, caring for a looked-after child is both rewarding and challenging — and you don’t have to do it alone.
1:1 Consultations for Kinship and Foster Carers
I offer one-to-one consultations designed to empower kinship and foster carers to better understand and support the unique needs of the child in front of them.
Together, we’ll work to:
- Reframe behaviour as communication, not defiance
- Explore the impact of trauma, attachment disruption, and early adversity
- Develop practical, trauma-informed and therapeutic parenting strategies
- Strengthen your ability to respond with awareness, attunement, and sensitivity
These sessions provide a supportive space where you can explore challenges, ask questions, and gain tools tailored to your child’s needs—and your family’s reality.
You can book a 1:1 consultation below, or get in touch at katrina@destinedforgreatnessni.com to enquire about our coaching packages for ongoing support.
Supporting Educational Success for Children in Care.
Foster and kinship carers often feel overwhelmed when trying to secure the right support in school for their child. Children in care may need a combination of educational adjustments, pastoral supports, and access to specialist services in order to thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally. This is familiar territory for me.
With over 20 years of experience supporting children and young people with significant Social, Emotional, Behavioural, and Wellbeing (SEBW) needs, I help carers and schools work together to ensure that looked-after children are understood, supported, and given every opportunity to reach their potential.
Foster parent testimonial.
As already parents to our biological children we naively thought we had the skills and know how to open our home and become foster parents! Little did we know this would open us to a world of parenthood that we had absolutely no clue about and no experience in!
We felt way out of our depth and very overwhelmed by the complex emotional needs that our foster children presented with and many times felt like we were failing horribly!! We had no clue how to “parent the children in front of us” and this is where Katrina comes in!
Katrina has worked closely with our family and equipped us as parents with the tools and knowledge to be the best that we can be for all of the children in our care including our own!
There has never been any judgement and she has always made us feel that we can do this!! Without her skills and knowledge and most importantly her support we would never have gotten where we’re at today and we will always be eternally grateful to her!!
Against all the odds our new family is now thriving and without Katrina our story would have had a very different ending!