Professional Training

Solihull Approach training courses

Training courses are offered via live-remote access


Develop a deeper understanding of infant mental health, neuroscience, psychotherapy and behavioural sciences. The Solihull Approach fosters reflective capacity and clarity of thought while enabling problem solving and decision making. It is not an intervention, rather it is a combination of theoretical frameworks to scaffold the way you think, so you can, in turn, enable others.

A range of professional training courses are available from antenatal, postnatal, early years, adolescents, school staff, managers, foster and adoption carer and even through to sports coaches … and more. This way of thinking helps understanding around why individuals respond the way they do, and how to build emotional and social skills, for life.

Across the UK this approach has been funded by NHS to train a number of professionals, from midwives and home visitors to school staff. It is limitless in it’s application.

$330/day + training manuals (group discounts available. email helen@helenstevens.com.au)

Core training

2 Day
Foundation Training

or

Manager Training

3 Days
Foundation + Group Facilitator Training

1 Day
Group Facilitator Training

 
 

Advanced trainings

School Staff Training

Train-the-Trainer Training

Managers’ Training

Trauma Informed Care Training

and more

Find out more on the official Solihull in Australia site.

 

PARENT COURSES

2024 Solihull Approach Parent Courses are now available

2 day SLEEP Intensive (0-3 years) for PROFESSIONAL

$330/day

This training provides a detailed understanding of infant brains and the importance of parental sensitivity, kindness and compassion.
Day 1 - Birth to 12 months
Day 2 - 1 to 3 years

 

Workplace education

Helen offers a range of infant mental health and Solihull Approach training throughout Australia? Call +61 411 880 720 or email helen@helenstevens.com.au to find out more.  

For over 15 years, Helen has provided valuable insight and career-changing education to many professions, including:

  • Mother Baby Unit and Early Parenting Centre staff

  • Midwives

  • Child & Family Health Nurses

  • Maternal & Child Health Nurses

  • Practice Nurses

  • Childbirth Educators

  • Mangers

  • Lactation consultants

  • Family Support workers

  • Psychologists

  • Social Workers

  • Mental Health Nurses

  • Early Years Professionals

  • Student Maternal and Child Health nurses

What information you will have access to

Choose a session from the list below or you can tailor a session to meet your individual group needs. All sessions have an infant mental health element. Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology

  • Research based understanding of sleep and settling

  • Sleep and settling when families are really struggling

  • Infant Assessment

  • Attachment Theory and Research

  • Safe Physical Sleeping

  • Asking the difficult questions when something seems wrong

  • Interventions aimed at promoting secure attachment

  • Professional Supervision (individual or group)

  • Nurturing the infant-parent relationship

  • Fundamentals of Infant Mental Health

  • What Infant Sleep Research tells us.

 

Cost

Please contact Helen to discuss your training needs. Sessons are tailored to fit your professional requirements.

Book now

Get in touch with Helen to find out more and make a booking.
0411880720
helen@helenstevens.com.au

Helen’s experience

Helen’s work began with families, and still clinical work weaves through her practice. Study, research, an interest in the parent-infant relationship, and infant mental health resulted in Helen participating in a number of professional discussion groups, such as the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and Helen Mayo Mother Baby Unit ‘Sleep hypothetical’ (Australia). Helen has also taken part in an infant sleep symposium alongside world leaders in the field, and been involved in international research and academic collaboration. She has been advisor to a number of organisations, and her work is recognised locally within Australia, and in many parts of the world.

As a qualified infant mental health practitioner, Helen incorporates infant mental health and wellbeing concepts and findings, including the influence of the infant-parent relationships, into all her work, training and presentations.

Helen is a registered Solihull Approach training who trains trainers as well as offers Professional training throughout Australia.

She is author of the book Safe Sleep Space (2nd ed. 2012) and Connect to Sleep (2017) and contributing author to The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep (2014). Helen has published research in the Journal of Early Human Development (2017) and Infant Mental Health Journal (2024) and continues to be involved in research, lecturing, trainings and of course supporting parents with sleep and infant dysregulation challenges.