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Tees Valley Therapeutic Services

What we do

Tees Valley Therapeutic services provides assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and families affected by all aspects of abuse, primarily sexual abuse. This includes pre-trial therapy, play therapy, individual and group counselling. The service also provides risk/safety assessments prior to behaviour management and change interventions with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. The work takes place in individual, family and group work settings.


We work in The Tees Valley and neighbouring local authorities.

We offer support with

  • Abuse
  • Sexual abuse
  • harmful sexual abuse

We provide support using

  • 1:1 support
  • Assessments
  • Counselling
  • Emotional support
  • Face to face sessions
  • Family support
  • Therapy

We work with

  • 13 years and under
  • 14 to 18 years old
  • 19

parents and families

We can help with

    Child sexual exploitation (CSE)

  • Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is a form of child sexual abuse. When children and young people experience sexual abuse we help them recover and rebuild their lives. We also support their family through counselling and create and deliver preventive and awareness-raising programmes.
  • Find out more about Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
  • Search for Child sexual exploitation (CSE) services
  • Sexually harmful behaviour

  • We work with children, young people, families and professionals to help understand why sexually harmful behaviour might be happening. To help address the behaviour and improve life chances, we support people in order to build self-worth, keep everyone safe and help them make the best choices.
  • Search for Sexually harmful behaviour services
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