Wellbeing
Supporting growth, healing and connection
At the Apricot Centre,
we believe nature is a powerful partner in healing.
The Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service supports the mental, emotional, and social wellbeing of children, young people, their families, and farming communities. We provide specialist therapies, therapeutic mentoring, and nature-based farm activities, helping those with complex life circumstances. We work with children and adolescents up to 25 years old, including those in adoption and fostering, residential or special guardianship care, and those with SEND or struggling to thrive in mainstream education.
Our Wellbeing Service
Our wellbeing service also offers assessments and specialist interventions for children, young people and families with complex needs, alongside less intensive care-farm approaches. Referrals come through local authority adoption and children’s services, as well as education teams. While we can’t accept private referrals, we continue to develop funded projects that make therapeutic support accessible to families in our local community.
What We Offer
Our teams in Devon and East Anglia bring together a wide range of expertise to deliver high-quality therapies and support, including:
Clinical Psychology
Process Oriented Psychology
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Creative Psychotherapies (Art, Music, Drama, Movement/Embodied)
Dietitian / Food and Mood
Counselling
Therapeutic Mentoring
Therapies & Assessments
The Apricot Centre Wellbeing Service offers support to children, young people, families. We provide therapeutic support and therapeutic mentoring funded and referred to us by local authority adoption support services, children’s services and education teams.
We are deeply aware of an increasing need for therapeutic support for young people at this time. We are unfortunately not able to receive private referrals. However we are working to fund specific projects for the wellbeing of young people and families in the local community.
The therapies and assessments are available in different regions in which we work. Please see our ‘Meet the Core Team & Practitioners’ section at the botton of this page for details about specific therapists and areas in which they work.
Wellbeing Through Nature and Connection
At the Apricot Centre, we support young people, families, and carers, especially those with complex needs, through therapeutic, nature-based approaches informed by attachment, trauma, and child development.
We provide a wide range of services, including:
Adoption support for looked-after and adopted children, carers, and families.
High-quality assessments, multidisciplinary evaluations, and tailored therapeutic programmes.
Individual and group mentoring for young people struggling at home, in mainstream education, or with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Opportunities to explore the “Edge of Potential” for those at the edge of care or education.
Our programmes take place in welcoming, non-clinical, nature-based settings, offering hands-on engagement with the land, food, and creative activities. Through these experiences, we help young people reconnect, build resilience, and enhance their wellbeing.
We also support carers and professionals by deepening their capacity to care while nurturing their own wellbeing, and we work with families to foster a stronger sense of home, belonging, and respect for diversity in relationships.
Where possible, we offer low-cost therapeutic services to ensure accessibility for those who are financially disadvantaged, and we actively build community resilience through forums, projects, and shared initiatives.
At the heart of everything we do is a simple truth: connecting with nature, land, and creativity transforms lives.
Supporting our farming community
AWAITING FUNDING - Farming Well is a 12-month project from the Apricot Centre, providing professional therapeutic support and mental health education to farmers and their families across Devon and the South West. Farmers face high levels of stress, long hours, isolation, and financial pressures, contributing to one of the highest suicide rates of any profession.
Through confidential one-to-one support and small-group workshops, delivered by trauma-informed, nature-based psychotherapists with experience in land-based work, Farming Well helps farmers build resilience, reduce isolation, and strengthen community connections. Workshops combine practical mental health toolkits with peer support, while on-farm outreach brings therapy directly to families.
The project aims to improve wellbeing, coping skills, and access to mental health support, creating stronger, healthier farming communities across the region.
