The BOUNCE Approach
Six pillars. One framework.
The BOUNCE Approach® integrates well-established, evidence-based frameworks – attachment theory, polyvagal-informed practice, sensory integration, nervous system regulation, trauma-informed practice, interoception, emotional development, relational neuroscience, and neurodivergent-affirming practice – into one clear, usable model.
It translates complex therapeutic and developmental theory into practical, everyday strategies for supporting children and young people across homes, schools, and services.
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Who It’s For
THE BOUNCE APPROACH® is for everyone around a child
Whoever you are to a child — parent, school, service or practitioner — the same framework helps you understand what’s beneath behaviour and respond in a way that works. Find your group below.
For Families
Families
Your child is not giving you a hard time. They are having a hard time. The BOUNCE Approach® helps parents and carers understand what is happening underneath — and what to do next. Courses, coaching, and specialist directory.
For Schools & Organisations
Schools
The most powerful intervention in any school is consistency. When every adult around a child shares the same framework and speaks the same language, something shifts. BOUNCE gives schools the shared understanding to make that consistency real.
Local Authorities & MATs
The challenge is not finding good provision. It is finding provision that works consistently across multiple schools. BOUNCE gives every school in your portfolio a common framework, a common language, and a common evidence infrastructure.
Residential Care
You are not a therapist. You are something the children in your care need even more than that. BOUNCE helps residential care staff understand the nervous system, sensory, and relational factors behind the most challenging behaviour — and how to respond in ways that genuinely change things.
For Professionals
ELSAs
Every ELSA knows the children who don’t respond to emotional literacy alone. BOUNCE helps you understand what may be getting in the way — and gives you practical tools for the children who feel hardest to reach.
Thrive Practitioners
Many children make genuine progress in Thrive sessions and struggle to transfer those gains into everyday life. BOUNCE helps you explore what may still be getting in the way — and provides practical tools that sit alongside your Thrive work.
Mental Health Support Teams
Some children do not respond to low-intensity CBT-based interventions in the way the model predicts. BOUNCE helps MHST practitioners understand what may be getting in the way — and provides an additional lens for the children who sit at the edge of what standard provision can reach.
Therapists
Most therapy training for working with children is good on relationship and technique. It is often thin on nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and neurodivergent-affirming practice. BOUNCE fills that gap — providing an additional clinical lens for the children whose presentations sit at the edge of standard training.
Getting Started
Whoever you are, the path in is the same
Three simple steps: find where to begin, explore that area, and put it into practice.
Trusted Service
Supporting children across home, school and services — every day
★ Trusted by Local Authorities
Approved supplier to multiple UK local authorities, MATs, and organisations across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Including Lancashire, Leeds, South Ayrshire, Hampshire, and Bridgend
Already meeting standards for safeguarding, quality, and procurement – so you can move forward with confidence.
