Who Are We?

About

Bridge the Gap Child Mental Health CIC was created because too many children were struggling emotionally and support was often coming too late, or in ways that didn’t feel safe, adaptable or accessible.

Founded by professionals working across health, education, and community settings, Bridge the Gap was born from repeatedly seeing children fall between services. Children didn’t need fixing or labelling, they needed understanding, emotional education and awareness and adults who could sit alongside them before difficulties escalated.

What began around a dining table has grown into a community-based service rooted in hope, compassion, and early intervention.

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Our Work

Bridge the Gap is clinically informed and clinically overseen, with robust safeguarding, supervision, and governance processes in place. Our work is grounded in evidence-based practice to ensure quality, safety, and ethical delivery. However, we are intentionally non-clinical in our approach.

Our practitioners do not diagnose or deliver therapy. Instead, we create emotionally safe, relational spaces where children can explore feelings, behaviour, and coping skills in developmentally appropriate ways. This is particularly helpful for children who may find clinical settings overwhelming.

Support is delivered through support packages rather than one-off sessions. This allows us to build meaningful relationships and create sustainable change over time. Our packages are flexible and responsive, shaped around the child’s needs and strengths rather than a fixed programme.

Our work includes Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), grounded in the understanding that behaviour is communication. We support children, families, and professionals to explore the "why" behind behaviour, identify unmet needs, and develop compassionate, practical strategies.

By blending emotional literacy, relational practice, and evidence-based approaches, we bridge healthcare understanding and educational practice—offering specialist early intervention support that feels human, accessible, and effective.

Our Support

We support children and young people to:

  • Understand, name and navigate their emotions

  • Feel safe in their bodies and relationships

  • Develop emotional literacy and coping skills

  • Build confidence, self-worth, and hope

Wherever possible, we work with the network around the child - parents, carers, schools, and professionals - because meaningful change happens in relationships, not isolation.

We Also Support:

  • Children and young people experiencing anxiety, low mood, emotional overwhelm, or behavioural distress

  • Children who are neurodivergent

  • Children struggling with emotional regulation, friendships, or self-esteem

  • Parents and carers seeking understanding and guidance

  • Schools and professionals wanting emotionally informed approaches

We are not a crisis service, but we work closely with other agencies where higher levels of support are needed.


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