Brighton Parent Infant Psychological Therapy (BrightPIP) has a vision to change the future, one baby at a time. We want every baby in our community to grow up feeling safe, secure and loved. We work with parents-to-be and babies aged 0-2 and their parents providing parent infant therapy, video guidance, infant massage and antenatal mellow bumps groups. Our mission is to intervene at the earliest time with families to prevent maltreatment and support parents to have positive relationships with their children.

Every year, an estimated 495 babies born in Brighton, are at risk of having 'insecure attachment'. This means that sadly these babies do not feel safe with their parents. This can be due to, for example, psychological impact of a premature baby, perinatal depression or anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic birth. Our families’ lives are often extra hard due to domestic abuse, poverty, poor quality parental relationships and unstable housing. Often parents have experienced high levels of childhood trauma in the form of abuse or neglect. They are not able to respond to their child’s needs as they have no experience of good parenting or were themselves in Care as children.

BrightPIP is a charity (Registered Charity Number 1177084) and depends on the support of donations to do this essential work. We urgently need to raise funds to carry on seeing vulnerable families.

Kerry:

BrightPIP Trustee, Suzie van der Westhuizen and Clinical Director, Dr Kerry Taylor will be running 10K on Sunday 14th April as part of the Brighton marathon weekend.

Suzie and Kerry are aiming to raise £780.00 which is the cost of running a 'Mellow Bumps' group for vulnerable mums-to-be across the city. This is a 6 week group for 2 hours each week that supports pregnant women with particular social and health vulnerabilities. This programme decreases stress levels and promotes attachment and bonding. It has had really good feedback from women who have attended so far. Participants of the last group said:

We would really like this course to carry on running. Please pledge your support for this vital work of BrightPIP by sponsoring our run!