Jacob's Story
Jacob ended up at the YOS after pushing a police officer, who’d asked him where he was going and questioned his response. He had shared with his case manager his challenges with anger and lashing out, often feeling enraged by minor things.
Jacob felt he had had this issue since losing his great aunt, who’d raised him while his parents worked abroad. She took ill and died within the space of just a few weeks, but he wasn’t taken to see her. He then moved to live with his parents who had returned to the UK and had to move schools as they lived in a different area. Jacob struggled in the new surrounds, getting into trouble and excluded, and despite being bright and capable, he didn’t achieve good grades.
With his counsellor, Jacob discussed and reflected on his past, and managed to better
understand his present emotions and behaviours. Having made the link with this root
trauma, he realized how frighteningly out of his control things had felt for him during his
aunt’s passing; and that, with the family focused on the practical necessities, he had felt his emotional needs were not seen and that he was deprived of the space needed to process all the change. When things culminated with the police officer, Jacob realized that he’d received the interaction as another attempt to redirect him against his will, which led him to lash out.
We offer a range of talking therapies for young people, including one-to-one, group, and family/parent work.