When life feels difficult, you don’t have to work it out alone.
Specialist therapeutic support for children, young people, adults and families navigating illness, bereavement, neurodiversity and difficult times.
When something changes within a family, it can be difficult to know what to do next.
Perhaps your child is struggling and you don’t understand why. Perhaps your family is living with cancer or serious illness. Perhaps someone you love is approaching the end of their life. Or perhaps someone has died, and you’re trying to work out how to support yourself, your child or your family through the grief.
You don’t need to have all the answers before you get in touch. I can help you make sense of what’s happening and work out what support might be right for you and your family.
When your family is facing illness, dying or bereavement
You don’t have to navigate the journey alone.
Support for families affected by cancer, serious or life-limiting illness, terminal illness, end-of-life care, anticipatory grief and bereavement. Victoria supports families from diagnosis and treatment, through uncertainty and end-of-life care, and into bereavement.
When your child is struggling
Sometimes behaviour is communicating something your child can’t yet put into words.
Support for children and parents around neurodiversity, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, school difficulties, communication, regulation, confidence and family relationships. Victoria looks at the whole picture: the child, the parents, the family, school and everything around them.
Experience matters when life is complicated.
Victoria brings specialist experience from children’s hospice care, cancer support, end-of-life care, bereavement, neurodiversity and private therapeutic practice. She understands that families don’t always arrive knowing exactly what they need.
- 2011 to 2014Richard House Children’s Hospice: children and families living with life-limiting illness, end-of-life care and bereavement.
- From 2015East Anglian Children’s Hospice: supporting children and families through life-limiting illness, end-of-life care and into bereavement.
- Maggie’s, CambridgeAdult and child art therapy groups, and work alongside parents after a cancer diagnosis in the family.
- Private practiceChildren, adults, parents and families, in Bury St Edmunds, Cavendish and online.
Art therapy is one of the tools Victoria uses. It isn’t the starting point.
Understanding the person, the child and the family comes first. You don’t need to be artistic, and nobody is asked to make good art: the creative process is simply another way to communicate when words are hard to find.
From Victoria
Articles on parenting, neurodiversity and art therapy. See all the resources, including videos and podcasts on grief.
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Why Supporting Parents of ADHD Children is the Key to Their Success
By Victoria Catchpole – Executive Function Coach, Art Therapist, and Parent When I first began navigating the world of ADHD as a parent, I was overwhelmed, exhausted, and…
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Finding Healing Through Art: My Journey to Becoming an Art Therapist
Hello, I’m an art therapist, a mother of two, and a proud dog owner. Creativity has always been at the heart of my life, but my path into…
You don’t have to know exactly what you need. Let’s talk.