Tel: 0114 2812143
What is Emosi?
Emosi is Sheffield’s only purpose built Transcultural Therapy Centre for children aged 2-12 years, aimed at giving children with emotional and behavioural challenges the very best start in life.
Emosi, which means emotion in a number of different languages, is a safe place where children are supported as they transition through developmental stages at their own pace in a child-led environment. Emosi believes that children should be supported and encouraged from their earliest foundations to be confident, resilient, healthy, holistic individuals.
Our Emosi therapists work to support children to regulate the effects of the many feelings they experience, rather than working within a system of behaviour modification. We believe that all behaviours are linked to communication, and are a way in which children sometimes try to vocalise their worlds. Developing emotional literacy, which supports children to make the connections between their actions and how they might be feeling, is therefore fundamental to the development of the children we work with.
Emosi also recognises that children’s home lives are strong influences on their learning and are central to their ways of being, knowing and doing. Our therapists therefore work in partnership with families, and can effectively utilise the children's family and cultural knowledge in the therapeutic context to enhance children’s experience.
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Outside the Ellesmere Children’s Centre building, the former school caretaker’s house has been completely transformed to now offer a transcultural and emotional therapy centre, named Emosi. This space now provides an oasis for children, offering a quiet, calming garden where young people with emotional and behavioural challenges can be assessed, supported and cared for. The design of the therapy centre also allows the outdoors to be brought inside, through the use of glass sliding doors which allow the garden’s natural light to shine through, creating a unified space to promote emotional and social well-being.
We take referrals to Emosi from a wide variety of professionals including school staff and social workers. Parents/carers can also self refer a child to us. Please click on the link below to download a referral form and send it back to our email address at: admin@ellesmerecc.org.uk
You can also call us on 0114 276 5544 for a discussion about our service.