About THEiA • Our Course Facilitators • Suzanne McGladdery

Suzanne McGladdery

Independent Social Worker

Based in Bristol, Suzanne provides Therapeutic Life Story Work interventions, consultation, supervision, training and lecturing internationally.

Suzanne completed the Professional Diploma in TLSW in 2016 and obtained an MSc in Social Work in 1989. She also holds an Advanced Award in Social Work and has undertaken Systemic Family Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) training to inform her strengths-based practice.

Suzanne’s professional career has focused on working with children and families in statutory child protection teams as well as in fostering and adoption.

Suzanne has developed direct work tools, a model of creating therapeutic stories for children and is co-author of ‘The Handbook of TLSW: The Rose Model’.

Training opportunities for carers and social, education and health professionals providing support to children, young people and adults

Coming Soon

Sexual Abuse Issues in Therapeutic Life Story Work: Some issues to consider

An underlying principle of therapeutic life story work is to help a child to understand and process their life histories and the decisions made about them.

6 total hours
Remote

Coming Soon

Making Sense of Fragmented Lives Through Life Story Work

This one-day course offers an in-depth understanding of the Life Story process and how this work helps children to make sense of their past so that what has happened to them does not dominate, control, or inhibit the present.

7 total hours
Remote