Our Services
Why Choose GIEC?
Tailored & Holistic: Custom solutions involving your entire community, adapted to diverse cultural contexts.
Proven Expertise: Real-world results in challenging SEMH environments, with global accolades and innovations.
Cultural Sensitivity: Experience across Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East.
Impact-Focused: Strategies that deliver measurable improvements in well-being, attendance, and achievement.
Trauma-Informed Support
Transform your school or organisation into a healing environment where traumatised students don't just survive—they reconnect, regulate, and succeed. Our trauma-informed support shifts the focus from punitive responses to understanding behaviour as communication of unmet needs, drawing on principles like safety, relationships, empowerment, and cultural humility.
What We Offer:
Comprehensive audits to identify trauma triggers in policies, pedagogy, and interactions.
Custom 1–3–5 year roadmaps to create trauma-healing systems.
Crisis stabilisation, reducing exclusions and dysregulation through restorative, attachment-aware approaches.
Proven results
Ideal for schools dealing with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), developmental trauma, or post-crisis recovery. Experience measurable reductions in staff burnout and student distress—contact us to heal hearts and build resilience.
Curriculum and Pedagogical Review
Revolutionise your curriculum to embed SEMH-friendly, trauma-sensitive learning that prioritises regulation, relationships, and engagement. We review and redesign pedagogy to make education accessible and empowering for all students, especially those with complex needs.
What We Offer:
Audits and redesigns incorporating SEL into daily teaching, with predictable routines, sensory diets, and movement breaks.
Technology integration to give voice to traumatised learners.
Representation on curriculum committees, like Greater Manchester's MBacc for SEN settings.
Tailored to international contexts, our reviews boost attendance, academic performance, and emotional safety. Let us future-proof your curriculum for inclusive excellence.
Leadership Mentoring
Elevate your leadership skills with personalised mentoring from a seasoned executive headteacher and consultant. We provide support for school improvement, stakeholder management, and personal well-being, helping leaders navigate the complexities of inclusive education.
What We Offer:
One-to-one coaching on strategic planning, crisis management, and work-life balance.
Guidance through regulatory compliance, recruitment, and cultural change.
Drawing from Andy's track record: Turned around failing schools, founded international boarding institutions, and achieved 'Good' Ofsted ratings post-crisis.
Monthly virtual check-ins and access to a network of inclusion experts.
Whether you're a new headteacher or a seasoned professional, our mentoring builds confident, compassionate leaders who drive transformative results. Thrive in your role with GIEC's expert support.
Training and Professional Development
Empower your educators, leaders, and staff with practical, evidence-based skills to support SEMH/SEL needs. Our bespoke training programs, delivered on-site or remotely, build a whole-school approach to inclusion, trauma sensitivity, and emotional well-being.
What We Offer:
Workshops on recognising SEMH presentations, trauma responses, and restorative behaviour management.
Specialised sessions in PACE interactions (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy), co-regulation, de-escalation, and vicarious trauma prevention.
Leadership coaching for SENCOs, heads, and executives, leveraging Andrew's Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Coaching/Counselling.
Global delivery: Keynotes and training in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, USA, and UK, with hundreds of educators transformed.
From 'Requires Improvement' to 'Outstanding' in personal development—our training fosters emotionally available adults and inclusive cultures. Invest in your team's growth for lasting student impact.
Policy Development
Craft robust, inclusive policies that align with international best practices and promote systemic change for SEMH/SEL support. We help rewrite frameworks to be trauma-informed, equitable, and effective, advocating at local, national, and global levels.
What We Offer:
Development of SEMH-inclusive policies on behaviour, restraint, exclusions, and student welfare.
Advocacy with governments, trusts, and international organisations for broader reforms.
Alignment with standards from the UK, US, and beyond, informed by Andrew's roles as Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Op-Ed contributions on mental health crises.
International Experience.
Ensure your policies foster inclusion, not exclusion. Partner with GIEC for sustainable, evidence-based change that protects vulnerable students.
Physical Environment Review
Design safe, sensory-friendly spaces that support emotional regulation and reduce distress for students with SEMH needs. Our reviews optimise physical layouts to create calming, inclusive environments that enhance learning and well-being.
What We Offer:
Audits of lighting, noise, layout, and escape routes to eliminate trauma triggers.
Advice on regulation rooms, calm corners, sensory circuits, and transition routines.
Integration of trauma-informed design principles, proven in SEMH settings with 'Outstanding' features.
International experience: From UK new-build projects (£12 million) to global school startups embedding cloud-based, collaborative spaces.
Create spaces where students feel secure from the start. Our reviews lower cortisol levels, boost engagement, and turn environments from stressors to sanctuaries.
Parental and Family Support
We understand that supporting a child with SEMH challenges, trauma, school avoidance, or dysregulation is a deeply personal and often overwhelming journey for parents and carers. You don’t have to face it alone. GIEC offers compassionate, specialist parental and family support tailored to your unique circumstances, delivered by Andy Howard, a Qualified Level 5 Trauma and Mental Health Practitioner with decades of experience helping hundreds of families turn struggle into hope.
Our approach is built around flexibility and accessibility, recognising that family life doesn’t fit neatly into school hours. We work around your schedule to make support as convenient and stress-free as possible:
Flexible Delivery Options:
Online worldwide via secure Zoom sessions – ideal for international families, busy schedules, or when travel isn’t possible.
Face-to-face meetings in the UK where feasible, or in-country during international consultancy visits.
Evenings, weekends, and school holidays availability to accommodate working parents, childcare commitments, or term-time pressures.
What We Offer:
Private one-to-one coaching sessions to help you understand your child’s behaviour as communication of unmet needs, develop co-regulation strategies for home, and build confidence in advocating with schools.
Customised family action plans with practical, trauma-informed tools you can use immediately to reduce dysregulation and strengthen relationships.
Parent workshops and group sessions (online or in-person) on topics like supporting traumatised children, navigating EHCPs, and influencing positive change at school.
Direct advocacy and liaison with your child’s school (with your permission) to implement restorative, trauma-sensitive plans that get your child back into learning and feeling safe.
Many families first reach out only after years of battling systems that don’t understand their child. Early, flexible intervention through GIEC can prevent prolonged distress, reduce family stress, improve attendance, and restore joy to everyday life. Parents we’ve supported often report renewed hope, stronger connections with their child, and successful re-engagement with education.
Whether you need a single consultative session or ongoing guidance throughout the year, we adapt to what works best for you. Your family’s well-being is our priority – support is just a conversation away, whenever and however suits you best.