“It’s structured, flexible, and evidence-based. Think of it as learning skills for life—a focused 16-week programme designed to help your learn practical, life-changing skills that help families better manage emotions, relationships, and crisis moments.”
A Collaborative Approach to Recovery
Our comprehensive DBT-A informed programme brings young people and their parents together to learn life-changing emotional regulation skills. When families learn together, healing accelerates and relationships strengthen.
Build your personal toolkit
Learn to manage overwhelming emotions – skills to regulate emotions and experience difficult feelings without impulsive reactions or self-harm behaviours
Access the best specialists
Access therapy and learning materials on your schedule with online modules, weekly video sessions, and 24-hour secure messaging support
Lasting recovery resources
Create a sustainable plan for continued success with 6 months free access to learning materials and 1 month of continued chat support after program completion
Comprehensive Assessment
We start with individual consultations for both you and your child to assess needs, set goals, and address concerns. Led by our experienced Clinicians
Personalised Plan
We create a tailored recovery plan for your child. You’ll review it and decide whether to proceed. We’ll guide you through onboarding, including technical support and programme orientation.
Weekly Therapy & Regular Check-ins
You and your child will engage in online learning modules and your child will have weekly individual therapy sessions. Monthly parent coaching sessions and parent-child catch-up sessions provide ongoing support and guidance.
Ongoing Chat Support & Peer Community
Messaging through secure chat platform throughout the programme for support and questions. Receive continued chat and community support for 1 month and free access to learning modules for 6 months after the programme ends.
“I think it’s going really really good. It’s the first like therapy I’ve ever like engaged with properly and I tried many before. I like doing the quizzes a lot because I like getting the immediate like gratification of having the correct answer and that feeling that I am actually getting better at it. Sometimes through the week I’ll just get like some messages from Olivia like not even like related to doing the work, but it will just prompt me to like think about it and feel like I have someone genuinely supporting me throughout…”
– Sam, 15 year old young person diagnosed with ASD and ADHD and active self-harm
Olivia is Sam’s Speek Clinician
Cost
NHS referral
Free at point of care (where referred by a NHS Trust)
Self-paying
Starting at £75/week
Insurance
We currently do not accept insurance.
Meet your Speek team
Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
All content is delivered with adaptations for individual communication, sensory, and processing needs. Our team has extensive experience supporting neurodivergent young people.
Privacy & Confidentiality
We maintain strict confidentiality boundaries. Information is only shared with parents with the young person’s consent and within professional requirements.
Together, we can end the cycle of self-harm in children
“We’ve worked alongside over 600 families, children, and healthcare professionals to build the digital DBT informed intervention for self-harm recovery.”
Dr. Olivia Collier, Chief Clinical Officer, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PhD)