SEND Parent Support · EHCP Advocacy
Practical and therapeutic support for parents navigating SEND, school pressures and EHCP processes — in Greenwich, Bromley and online across the UK.
Listed in Bromley Council’s SEND Local Offer →When parenting becomes advocacy as well
There is the emotional work of parenting your child.
Then there can be another layer: meetings, reports, school communication, assessments, EHCP processes, Annual Reviews, waiting lists and the constant question of whether the right support is actually in place.
Many parents become highly capable advocates because they have had to. But being effective does not mean the pressure is easy to carry.
Which kind of support do you need?
The support route depends on whether the main difficulty is the impact on you, the practical challenge of navigating the system, or the interaction between both.
You may feel permanently on alert, exhausted, unable to switch off, increasingly anxious, irritable or emotionally depleted.
SEND Parent Therapy focuses on the psychological impact of carrying sustained responsibility and uncertainty.
You may be preparing for an EHCP meeting, Annual Review, school discussion or a difficult conversation about provision.
Advocacy support helps you organise your concerns, clarify what you want to raise and approach important discussions more effectively.
The lived reality of SEND parenting
A single school email, appointment or review may be manageable.
The strain often comes from having to keep managing the next thing while everything else in family life continues.
The EHCP experience
For many parents, the difficult part of an EHCP process is not simply understanding a document.
It is keeping track of concerns, evidence, conversations, promised support and what needs to be raised next — while also managing the emotional consequences of having to advocate repeatedly.
Parents often arrive at meetings already carrying weeks or months of frustration, uncertainty or fear that something important will be overlooked.
Sorting through concerns, identifying priorities, deciding what needs clarification and preparing the points you do not want to leave unsaid.
Holding onto your main concerns, asking the questions you intended to ask and responding when the conversation moves quickly or becomes emotionally charged.
Reviewing what was agreed, identifying what still feels unclear and deciding what needs following up without becoming overwhelmed by the whole process.
The meeting itself can be only the visible part
You may be reviewing emails, checking reports, remembering previous conversations, anticipating objections and trying to decide which concerns matter most.
By the time the meeting begins, the parent may already be mentally exhausted.
Advocacy support is about helping you enter that conversation more organised, more focused and clearer about what you need to communicate.
SEND Parent Therapy
SEND Parent Therapy is not about suggesting that the demands are imaginary or that you simply need to think more positively.
Many of the pressures are real. Therapy focuses on how carrying them for a prolonged period is affecting your emotional and physical functioning.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy may be used where appropriate as part of a structured therapeutic approach to anxiety, stress, worry and the patterns that maintain them.
EHCP & SEND Advocacy Support
Advocacy support is different from therapy.
The focus is practical: helping you make sense of what you want to raise, preparing for meetings and approaching conversations with greater clarity.
Where therapy and advocacy overlap
A parent may understand their child extremely well and still find themselves freezing, becoming tearful, losing their train of thought or leaving a meeting frustrated that they did not say what they intended.
This is where the two support routes can overlap.
Support exists around the child
Much of SEND family life is understandably organised around the child’s needs, appointments, routines, education and support.
It can leave very little space for the parent to process what the experience is doing to them.
What this service is — and is not
SEND parent therapy and advocacy support do not replace specialist legal, medical, diagnostic or statutory advice.
A separate SEND support fee
The SEND parent service is priced separately from the wider Bohangar practice.
Parents supporting a child with SEND often direct substantial time, energy and financial resources towards assessments, education, therapies and practical support for their child.
Per SEND Parent Therapy or EHCP / SEND Advocacy Support session.
The aim is to make ongoing parent support more accessible without placing it inside the main £125 Bohangar therapy structure.
Local SEND recognition
Bohangar is included in Bromley Council’s SEND Local Offer, helping parents and carers identify services and support available locally.
The service originally developed with a strong Bromley connection and continues to support parents in Bromley, alongside Greenwich sessions and online appointments across the UK.
View the Bromley Council Local Offer listing →SEND Parent Support
Support is available in person in Greenwich, in Bromley by arrangement, and online for parents across the UK.
15A Nelson Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9JB.
In-person Bromley support may be available by arrangement.
Online sessions allow parents to access SEND support without needing to travel.
Support for the parent behind the process
SEND parenting can involve uncertainty that cannot simply be solved by one meeting, one report or one therapeutic technique.
The support is about helping you remain clearer, steadier and more able to respond when the next decision, meeting or period of pressure arrives.
Yes. Some parents need practical support around meetings and communication, while also needing therapeutic support for the anxiety, exhaustion or emotional impact of the SEND journey.
Advocacy support can help you organise your main concerns, clarify the points you want to raise, structure questions and prepare for the conversation. It does not replace specialist legal advice.
No. EHCP advocacy support is practical support for preparation, organisation and communication. Where specialist SEND legal advice or representation is required, an appropriate legal or specialist service should be used.
No. In-person support is available in Greenwich and Bromley by arrangement. Online sessions are available to parents across the UK.
Yes. The £60 fee applies to the SEND Parent Therapy and EHCP / SEND Advocacy Support service. It is separate from the wider Bohangar therapy fee structure.
You do not need to decide in advance. A brief initial conversation can help clarify whether the main need is therapeutic support, advocacy support, or a combination of the two.
You do not have to carry the whole SEND process alone.
If you are unsure whether you need parent therapy, EHCP advocacy support, or both, book a brief discovery call and outline what is happening.