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The BOUNCE Approach® by Child Therapy Service

Behaviour is communication.Understand first. Then support.

We turn evidence-based models into practical tools you can use today.

Most booked LEGO®-based Therapy trainingLive online Book your place
The Learning Portal: everything you need, in one toolbox. Programmes, packs, slides and on-screen tools to support children and young people.
Really enjoyable training. I feel excited to put this into practice now. The amount of resources you get with the training is amazing too!
Ashley Mccolm★★★★★ Google review
Fantastic training service, completely PDA and trauma informed, super delivery! Well worth the money!
Pippa Berry★★★★★ Google review
Wonderful training - clear and complete. Lots of resources provided! Would highly recommend this for anyone!
Marissa De Bruyn★★★★★ Google review
  • A 2-minute online assessmentSnapshots show where to start, for one child or young person or a whole group
  • Use it the same dayPractical tools, with nothing to laminate or prepare
  • Review at 4–6 weeksWhile there is still time to change the support

Trusted by settings across the UK

1,000s

People trained

831

Reviews

100s

Case studies

25+

Years of practice

Approved supplier to local authorities and trusts

  • Lancashire
  • Leeds
  • South Ayrshire
  • Hampshire
  • Bridgend
  • and across the UK

Research partnership with Leeds Beckett University

A whole-child framework

What is The BOUNCE Approach®?

A developmental lens for seeing behaviour differently. When the need underneath is met, things can change.

BOUNCE® brings together well-established research from six disciplines, usually taught separately, into one practical framework.

Each level rests on the one below

  • Body first. You cannot reason with a child whose body does not feel safe, or build identity before connection.
  • Meet the need, and more becomes reachable. When a need is met, what sits above it comes within reach.
  • Returned to again and again. Body and the Nervous System is the ground the other five stand on.

“What does this child need right now?”

The question the framework exists to answer

Free to start. No account needed.

Select a pillar to find out more

Everything rests on the base

Pillar 1 · Foundation

Body and the Nervous System

ResearchPolyvagal Theory

How the nervous system senses safety and threat. The foundation everything else rests on.

Pillar 2

Openness and Trust

ResearchAttachment Theory

How relationships build trust, co-regulation and safety.

Pillar 3

Understanding Sensory Differences

ResearchSensory Integration and Interoception

How each child or young person experiences their body and the world around them.

Pillar 4

Navigating Emotions

ResearchTrauma-Informed and Neurosequential Models

Recognising, expressing and making sense of emotions, in developmental order.

Pillar 5

Connection and Communication

ResearchCommunication Science

Behaviour, language and interaction as communication, and a way to connect.

Pillar 6

Esteem and Identity

ResearchIdentity and Reflective Practice

Self-awareness, belonging and a positive sense of self.

Established researchThe BOUNCE Approach®Tools you can use today

We don’t replace the models the research comes from. We make them usable on a Monday morning.

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What people come here for

“I thoroughly enjoyed the live online training and having time to work through the modules following it at my own pace. I would highly recommend it!”
Lauren VeenstraRunning Lego-based Therapy Sessions · 13 September 2026
What you get

One portal. Everything connected.

One framework, from need to support to review.

Session packs and printables

Ready-to-use packs for every session

Cards, mats, posters, session plans and assessment tools, sorted by theme so you can find the right one fast.

Explore the packs

Online assessment tool

Snapshots

A Snapshot is a quick online assessment. Tick what you’re noticing, and in about two minutes it shows strengths, needs and priorities, then links you to the support that fits.

  • Online, with nothing to print or score by hand
  • A report you can save as a PDF for your records
  • Repeat it at 4–6 weeks to see what has changed
Try a Snapshot

Hear their voice

The Professional Studio

Interactive tools to use side by side. Nothing to laminate.

Explore the Studio

EHCP and SEND tools

With or without an EHCP.

Support can start when it’s needed most.

  • With an EHCPMatch Section F to resources, then set short-term targets.
  • SEND RegisterStart from the Snapshot, create a provision map, and set I can… targets.
Explore the EHCP and SEND tools

Thinking about a nurture room, inclusion base or EBSA pathway? Book a free 30-minute consultation

With an EHCP, the EHCP Provision Planner and the Short-term Target Generator lead into Provision Mapping. On the SEND Register, a Snapshot and the I Can… Target Tool lead into the same plan.

The ELSA toolkit

Less planning. More time with children and young people.

We make life easier for practitioners. Everything an ELSA reaches for is in one place: printable PDF packs, create tools to make personalised workbooks, cards and visuals, lesson slides, programmes, assessment tools and interactive activities. Choose what you’re noticing and up to two targets, and the session plan brings the right resources together for you.

  • For groups, individuals and remote sessions
  • Share a session with its own safe link
  • LEGO®-inspired and Stick People versions for any age
  • New resources added every week
See everything inside

45+ Printable PDF packs

Cards, mats, posters and session plans to print and use straight away.

  • Emotion Words
  • Mood Monsters
  • Chimp Feelings
  • Positive Affirmation Cards
  • Restore, Repair, Prevent
  • Metaphorical Stories
  • + more

16+ Create tools

Make your own printable workbooks, cards, scales and visuals for one child, then download them as a PDF.

Strong Emotion Workbook MakerChoose a feelingPick a buddyChoose the pagesDownload the PDF
  • Emotion Card Maker
  • Feelings Scale Maker
  • Visual Timetable Maker
  • What I Need Card Maker
  • Make Your Own Sensory Circuit
  • + more

11 Lesson slides

Ready-made slides to present in sessions and classrooms.

  • Interoception
  • Sensory Differences
  • Tree of Life
  • My Battery
  • Chimp Feelings
  • Yoga
  • + more

11 Programmes

One to six sessions to run over time, with everything you need to print.

  • Window of Tolerance
  • Beliefs to Values
  • Creating a Neuroprofile
  • BOUNCE Bricks Intervention
  • LEGO® 6-Week Programme
  • + more

5 Assessment tools

See where to start and show what has changed.

  • Stirling Children’s Wellbeing Scale
  • Rosenberg Self-Esteem Tracker
  • SUD Scale
  • Pupil Voice
  • Pre & Post Assessment
  • + more

37 Interactive tools

Work through feelings together on screen, in the room or remotely.

  • My Volcano
  • Worry Machine
  • Emotion Wheel
  • Body Map
  • My Window
  • Comic Creator
  • + more

Hours of planningA ready-to-run session in minutes

Develop practice

65 CPD courses

Around 127 hours of CPD, planned across your year in your own CPD Pathway.

See the training

Lead a team

CPD and leadership toolsNew

Plan who does what training, and when, across your team.

See the CPD tools
“The Bounce Framework course is excellent! It integrates inclusion, attachment, polyvagal theory, and scaffolding with practical strategies that are easy to implement. A perfect mix of theory and practice. I feel inspired and ready to apply what I’ve learned in my work with children and families.”
Effrosyni ChamalakiCourse feedback · January 2026

No big data system.No extra cost.

  • No personal data stored
  • A PDF for your own records
  • Works with your systems

I am a…

See what needs attention first. Review before the term is over.

Two-minute online Snapshot assessments organise what staff are already noticing. The EHCP and SEND tools turn Section F and your SEND register into one provision map, with I can… targets you can review at 4–6 weeks.

With or without an EHCP, support can start when it’s needed most.

Explore the EHCP and SEND tools
EHCP Provision PlannerThe EHCP Provision Planner, grouping Section F provision into strands

Some things are easier to show than to say.

The Professional Studio gives children and young people creative ways to show what is happening inside. Choose a tool, read the guide, and work through it together on screen. They lead. You stay curious.

18 tools and growing, each with a guide for the adult.

Explore the Professional Studio

See the PSHE Learning Journeys that use it

We make your week easier, so you can focus on them.

Start from what you’re noticing, choose up to two targets, and get a session plan with the lesson, the activities and every printable to match. Then work through feelings together on screen, with a child or young person, a group, or remotely through a safe link.

No more hours of planning: 37 interactive tools, 17 all-in-one sets, 11 programmes and 45+ packs and printables, with new resources every week.

See the Emotional Literacy Programme

Explore the Studio’s interactive tools

My Body Scan: what do I notice in my body? Breathe: follow the bricks round the shape and breathe along My Inner Team: choosing what each part looks like Regulation: where am I, pick my tools, try them out The Magic Tree: which brick person feels like me today? My Window: building a brick window of feelings Superpowers: kindness, courage, listening and being funny A Get Curious slide from The Growth Zone

From noticing to a ready-to-run session

  1. Tell it what you’re noticingAnxietyAngerShutdownFriendshipsTransitionsSelf-esteem+ more
  2. Choose up to two targetsFocus on what matters most for this child or young person right now.
  3. Get a session that’s ready to runTargetsSession outlineEvery activity and printable“How did it go?” review

Plan who does what training, and when.

Choose the training your team needs, decide who completes each course and when, then give each person their own plan. Everything they complete builds their CPD Evidence Portfolio.

Plus the Team Leader Dashboard, from £36 a licence.

See the team tools
Team CPD PlannerA team CPD plan showing who completes each course and when

One shared framework across settings.

Multi-setting licences for advisers and services working across settings. Everyone uses the same language, the same Snapshots and the same route from need to support to review.

Evidence of what changed, setting by setting.

See multi-setting pricing
Provision MappingA provision map setting out what is in place and what may need to change

Make sense of what you are seeing at home.

Family coaching helps you understand what may be underneath your child or young person’s behaviour, and leave with something practical to try at home. You don’t have to work it out on your own.

You know your child or young person best. Coaching helps you find what to try next.

Find out about family coaching
Family coaching

Also used by early years practitioners, college SEND teams, alternative provision staff, family support workers and educational psychologists.

“Fantastic course with lots of invaluable information. It is broken down into a way that will support understanding of needs and implementation of support. I would definitely recommend it.”
Davinia CooperAn Introduction to The BOUNCE Approach® · 8 June 2026
The impact

What changed was not the child. It was the adults’ understanding.

Case study

Year 4 · mainstream primary · Engagement

More time in class, fewer adult interventions

  1. What the Snapshot showedOverload, not avoidance.
  2. What adults changedThey broke tasks into steps and added movement.
  3. What movedMore time in class, and fewer adult interventions.
Read the case studies
See what changedA Snapshot progress and review report comparing before and after

Primary aged · Wellbeing

Attendance up, fewer medical room visits. The Snapshot pointed to anxiety. Adults added predictable routines and daily check-ins.

★★★★★

We started with a single subscription but quickly realised how beneficial it would be for many of our teachers and classes, and therefore now have the school subscription.

HA
Heidi AlexanderDeputy Head · John Grant School

★★★★★

The resources have been embedded into our whole school mental health approach and the emotional regulation tools embedded into our behaviour for learning policy.

DS
Debbie StonerPastoral Lead · Primary School

★★★★★

Services like CTS are SO important in equipping us as professionals with a range of ideas and knowledge to support children and families who feel lost or in the dark.

CS
Dr Claire StubbsCounselling Psychologist

What practitioners say

  • “Such a brilliant and insightful course. I’m so excited to start this intervention with some of my students as I feel it will be so beneficial to them and encourage them to share their stories.”
    Sasha DewhurstRunning a Tree of Life Intervention · 26 May 2026
  • ★★★★★
    “Super training with such a knowledgeable practitioner. Engaging, interesting and full of strategies and techniques I was able to take away and start implementing straight away! I’d highly recommend this to everyone looking to add creative skills to their tool kit - just wonderful!”
    Kirsty RawstonGoogle review · 10 April 2024
  • “I’ve been so interested in sensory circuits and am so excited that I now have the knowledge to use them with some of my preschoolers to really enable them to be in their optimal learning zone as much as possible so they can get more out of their day.”
    Hayley WatersonRunning Sensory Circuits at Home · 8 February 2026
  • ★★★★★
    “What an amazing and concise training! The resources provided are incredibly comprehensive, covering everything needed. I also appreciate the inclusion of strong research to support implementation. Thank you so much!”
    Francesca LynchGoogle review · 5 March 2025
  • “A really informative, research based and clear course with walkthroughs, further knowledge and loads of downloadables to support someone new to this genre. Thank you!”
    Laura EastwoodRunning a Sand Tray Intervention · 30 March 2026
  • ★★★★★
    “Lovely online training session this evening very neurodivergence affirming, I felt welcome, held and entertained along with the teaching!, it was great”
    Joanna AtkinsonGoogle review
  • “I loved this training. It was really informative, giving a good amount of background information before giving a direct demonstration of how to run the approach and bringing it all together. Love the resources that you can access as well.”
    Sadie RawlingsRunning Comic Strip Interventions · 20 July 2026
  • “This course has taught me new techniques to use to help children regulate their nervous system! It has enabled me to deepen my knowledge and given me new ideas to implement within the setting.”
    Elizabeth CarolExpanding the Window of Tolerance · 9 October 2025
Membership

One login. Everything above.

Pay by card or invoice.

One professional

Professional Membership

£319a year

or £39.99 a month

See what’s included
Most settings choose this

Whole team · 3 to 50

Team Membership

From£36a licence

Plus the Team Leader Dashboard

See team pricing

Services and trusts

Multi-setting licences

From£499a year

For advisers working across settings

See pricing

Your next step

Most people start with LEGO®-based Therapy training. Book a live session and leave ready to run your first group.

Not looking for LEGO®? Start here instead:

Most booked: LEGO®-based Therapy training, live online.

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ResourcesMonthlyAnnual
🧘 Somatic Toolkit✔
🪟 Window of Tolerance Activity Pack✔
🧩 Managing Demand Avoidance Toolkit✔
⛏️ Minecraft Belief Systems✔
🧱 LEGO® Belief Systems✔
🧱 Therapeutic LEGO® Pack✔
😀 Emoji Body Map✔✔
🧠 Creating a Neuroprofile✔✔
🧍 Physical Body Scan✔✔
🗓️ Visual Timetable (Home Use)✔✔
📊 SEMH Assessment Trackers✔✔
📖 Metaphorical Stories✔✔
🧠 Sensory Profile Assessment✔✔
🗣️ Pupil Voice Tools✔✔
🗺️ Body Mapping✔✔
🛠️ Restore, Repair & Prevent Toolkit✔✔
🧩 “A Part of Me Feels” Resource✔✔
🎨 Window of Tolerance Fun Pack✔✔
📈 Assessment Trackers✔✔
📉 SUD Scale✔✔
📝 Support Plan Pack✔✔
😊😟 Positive & Negative Affect Schedule✔✔
📎 BOUNCE Strips and Fans✔✔
🧠 BOUNCE + Window of Tolerance Pack✔✔
🧱 Positive Posters – LEGO® Style✔✔
🤝 Self- and Co-Regulation Posters✔✔
🏫 Classroom Bumper Display Pack✔✔
🌈 Sensory Differences Activity Pack✔✔
👾 Mood Monsters Classroom Pack✔✔
⚙️ Executive Function Pack✔✔

EVERY resource on the website is included, such as:

🧘 Somatic Toolkit
😀 Emoji Body Map
🧍 Physical Body Scan
🧱 Therapeutic LEGO® Pack
🗓️ Visual Timetable (Home Use)
📊 SEMH Assessment Tracker
📖 Metaphorical Stories
🧠 Sensory Profile Assessment
🗣️ Pupil Voice Tools
🪟 Window of Tolerance
🧩 Managing Demand Avoidance Toolkit
🗺️ Body Mapping
🛠️ Restore, Repair & Prevent Toolkit
🧩 “A Part of Me Feels” Resource
🎨 Window of Tolerance Fun Pack
📈 Assessment Tracker
📉 SUD Scale
📝 Support Plan Pack
😊😟 Positive & Negative Affect Schedule
📎 Strips and Fans
🧠 BOUNCE + Window of Tolerance Pack
🧱 Positive Posters – LEGO® Style
🤝 Self- and Co-Regulation Posters
🏫 Classroom Bumper Display Pack
🌈 Sensory Differences
👾 Mood Monsters Classroom Pack
⚙️ Executive Function Pack
🧠 Creating a Neuroprofile
⛏️ Minecraft Belief Systems
🧱 LEGO® Belief Systems

Licence: Whole-setting use

Team Membership

  • Best for: Whole schools, nurseries, colleges, or service teams (e.g. NHS, local authorities, care settings)

Each month you’ll get an EXTRA:

✅ A professional resource

🎥 A walkthrough video

🎓 A CPD professional webinar

Licence: Whole-setting use

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