HELPING TO SUPPORT, EMPOWER AND EDUCATE PARENTS, CARERS AND PROFESSIONALS

CHILDREN DON’T COME WITH A MANUAL

At Secure Foundations, we believe that your children are the manual. Which is why we teach evidence-based strategies to help you understand your unique child and meet them where they are at developmentally, so that you can parent with confidence.

Our Mission

Our mission is to empower, support and educate those looking after children to parent instinctively with care and compassion so that we can raise generations that don’t need to heal from their childhood.

Having worked for many years with vulnerable children and their families Secure Foundations founder, Sarah Bolitho, is passionate about building secure foundations for children and their families. She firmly believes that creating a secure attachment in the early years is an emotional advantage that will last a lifetime. Secure Foundations offers education and support to parents, carers and professionals relating to challenging behaviours, infant and child sleep struggles, positive behaviour support, child development, childhood trauma and attachment focused parenting.

Secure Foundations believe that each family is unique, and all recommendations are individualised and tailored to meet the goals of you and your family. You can be sure that we will not recommend anything that compromises your maternal instincts and will meet your little one at their point of need. We look forward to working with you and especially welcome partnerships working with those who are caring for children with a trauma history.

Our Founder, Sarah

With experience working with children and families both in the government and non-government sector, challenging behaviours and parenting struggles are no stranger to Sarah. She is also right with you on this parenting journey, as a mum of two little ones herself she understands the daily struggles of parenthood all too well. But that’s not all; she also has postgraduate qualifications in psychology, is a Trauma Puzzle™ facilitator and a certified Sleep consultant. So, you can be confident that with her real world knowledge, life experience and education, Sarah can help you to overcome even your biggest parenting challenges.

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HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

We offer consultation, training and support for parents, carers and professionals in relation to managing challenging behaviours, infant and child sleep struggles, positive behaviour support, child development, childhood trauma and attachment focused parenting.

Secure Foundations Services Self Paced Learning

Self-Paced Programmes

We have designed several self-paced digital learning resources including our signature 6-week programme so that you can get the in-depth support you need at a time and pace that is convenient for you.

These resources give answers to the most common parenting and sleep struggles in the most accessible way.

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1:1 Support

We can work 1:1 to provide individualised support via various means to help you reach your parenting goals. Whether that be struggles with unsettled sleep, emotional or behavioural challenges, tantrums or potty training. We can work together to ease your challenges whilst maintaining emotional connection.

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Workshops

Specialising in attachment theory, trauma and child development, infant sleep and positive behaviour support. Be it your mum’s group or work colleagues, we can tailor a workshop to troubleshoot your biggest challenges. We can tailor workshops to meet the needs of your group, why not grab your mum’s group together and we can workshop your current developmental struggles.

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What Ages Can We Help?

We know that the early years is an important foundational period of child development. It shapes their development, relationships and emotional well-being which is why Sarah is so passionate about supporting those caring for children in the 0-5 age range. Sleep and behaviour is often affected by developmental, environmental and relational factors which form the basis of the holistic support Secure Foundations provides.

Toddlers

Are you struggling with bedtime battles, power struggles, tantrums, potty training, aggression or general behaviour? Bedtime parenting starts in the morning, let us show you the strategies you need to totally transform toddlerhood in your home, not just at bedtime. We are here to support you through your toddler challenges in a way that feels right for you and your family.

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Infants

Perhaps naps are a no-show or your nights are unsettled, you’d like some support to get everyone a little more sleep but you’ve been told that you must ‘cry it out’ or ‘wait it out’ and neither of those options are for you.

If you want to change your sleep situation in a genuinely gentle way that won’t cause you or your little one psychological distress, we may just have the strategies you need.

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Preschoolers

The development of independence in pre-schoolers can present a whole new set of parenting challenges. Whether it’s whining, lying, not listening, potty training or constant boundary pushing our 1:1 consultations are just what you need to regain your confidence and make some changes that will bring back the magic of the pre-school years.

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Infants

Perhaps naps are a no-show or your nights are unsettled, you’d like some support to get everyone a little more sleep but you’ve been told that you must ‘cry it out’ or ‘wait it out’ and neither of those options are for you.

If you want to change your sleep situation in a genuinely gentle way that won’t cause you or your little one psychological distress, we may just have the strategies you need.

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Toddlers

Are you struggling with bedtime battles, power struggles, tantrums, potty training, aggression or general behaviour? Bedtime parenting starts in the morning, let us show you the strategies you need to totally transform toddlerhood in your home, not just at bedtime. We are here to support you through your toddler challenges in a way that feels right for you and your family.

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Preschoolers

The development of independence in pre-schoolers can present a whole new set of parenting challenges. Whether it’s whining, lying, not listening, potty training or constant boundary pushing our 1:1 consultations are just what you need to regain your confidence and make some changes that will bring back the magic of the pre-school years.

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Join Our E-Programme!

If you’re looking to understand your child from a developmental perspective and learn strategies to effectively respond to challenging behaviours whilst not just maintaining but improving your relationship with your children, then come and join me in the Positive Parenting Puzzle.

I am here for YOU and I get you.

Positive Parenting Puzzle - Self Paced E-Programme

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What Will I Learn?

Backed by developmental psychology our online programme will help you to feel connected with your children, understand the reasons behind their behaviour and give you the confidence and the support you need to feel empowered to respond in meaningful and effective ways.

You will be able to set boundaries that are consistent and predictable for your children and that work for you. Every time.

You will have the confidence to go out in public without fearing that your child is going to embarrass you or be unmanageable.

You will finally be able to accept the ways that you were parented and ensure that your history doesn’t have to be written into your future.…