TRIBE Trauma Informed Care
Complex Family Dynamics: Helpful Ways to Navigate
“Supporting Children Through Life's Most Complicated Relationships ”
Families are rarely straightforward.
For many children, family life can include birth parents, foster carers, adoptive families, grandparents, siblings living in different homes, step-parents, shared care arrangements and family members they see only occasionally. Alongside this, some children are trying to make sense of bereavement, changing family relationships, or why brothers and sisters remain living with birth family when they cannot. For parents and carers, these situations can feel incredibly difficult to navigate. Some worry about saying the wrong thing. Others struggle to know how honest to be when children ask difficult questions. Many feel caught between protecting a child's emotional wellbeing whilst supporting important family relationships. Over time, these situations can leave parents and carers feeling uncertain, emotionally drained and unsure how best to respond.
The truth is:
- Children don't need adults who can fix every family situation.
- They need adults who can help them make sense of it with honesty, empathy and emotional safety.
Supporting children through complex family dynamics means helping them understand their story, process difficult emotions and feel secure in the relationships around them while giving them permission to love, miss and talk about the important people in their lives without fear or guilt.
What Does Complex Family Dynamics
Include?
Complex Family Dynamics: Helpful Ways to Navigate
In this Deep Dive, we'll explore practical, trauma-informed ways to support children through some of the most emotionally challenging family situations they may experience.
In This Deep Dive, We’ll Cover:
- Understanding why complex family dynamics can be confusing and emotionally overwhelming for children.
- Supporting children through birth family contact and changing family relationships.
- Helping children when birth parents go on to have other children who remain in their care.
- Supporting children who have experienced the bereavement of a parent or significant family member.
- Navigating shared care arrangements and helping children move confidently between homes.
- Reducing loyalty conflicts whilst strengthening identity, attachment and belonging.
- Practical strategies for responding to difficult questions and big emotions with confidence.
Hosted by Rachel Evans and Kim Matthews, who create warm, practical and reflective spaces where parents and carers can build understanding, confidence and connection.
Rachel is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and Service Manager at TRIBE, with extensive experience supporting care-experienced children, foster carers and families through trauma-informed and behaviourally informed approaches. She specialises in helping adults understand the meaning behind children's behaviour, particularly where trauma, attachment, loss and family relationships intersect. Kim is the Life Story Lead and a former Social Worker with extensive experience supporting care-experienced children and their families across therapeutic settings. She has developed specialist expertise in helping children make sense of their personal histories, family relationships, loss and identity, and has published work in the field of Life Story practice. Drawing on approaches including Life Story Work, Family Therapy, PCAP and other creative therapeutic interventions, Kim helps carers understand the emotional impact of complex family experiences. Together, Rachel and Kim will help create a reflective learning space where parents and carers can deepen their understanding, build confidence and leave with realistic strategies they can use immediately in everyday family life.
August 26th
10.30 am to Midday
Can't attend in person - No Problem watch the replay!
August 26th
10.30 am to Midday
Can't attend in person - No Problem watch the replay!
By the end of this Deep Dive, you will have:
- Greater confidence supporting children through complex family situations.
- A better understanding of how trauma, attachment and loss influence family relationships.
- Practical strategies you can use immediately to support difficult conversations and emotional moments.
- Increased confidence navigating birth family contact, bereavement and shared care arrangements.
- A deeper understanding of how to reduce loyalty conflicts whilst strengthening children's sense of identity and belonging.
- Time to reflect on your own experiences and develop approaches that feel right for your family.
What You’ll Get:
- 🎥 Access to the Live Online Deep Dive with Rachel & Kim on August 26th at 10:30pm.
- 🔑 Unlimited access to the recording afterwards through the TRIBE Online Portal, so you can revisit the strategies whenever you need them.
- 📑 Downloadable charts, guides, and practical resources shared during the session, ready to use at home with your child.
- 🛠️ Step-by-step tools and strategies you can put into practice the very next morning.
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Join Rachel Evans & Kim Matthews for Complex Family Dynamics: Helpful Ways to Navigate and discover practical, trauma-informed strategies that help you understand what’s really going on and respond in ways that reduce stress, build safety, and support lasting progress.
👉 Secure your spot now and take the first step towards calmer, smoother mornings for your family.
What You Get
- 🎥 Access to the Live Online Deep Dive with Rachel & Kim on August 26th at 10:30 Midday.
- 🔑 Unlimited access to the recording afterwards through the TRIBE Online Portal — so you can revisit the strategies whenever you need them.
- 📑 Downloadable charts, guides, and practical resources shared during the session, ready to use at home with your child.
- 🛠️ Step-by-step tools and strategies you can put into practice the very next morning.
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