Empowering Children, Schools and Child Focused Communities
We support children, and the adults, families, and communities around them, through compassionate, trauma informed practice. Our work brings together relationship, play, creativity, Animal Assisted Intervention and practical strategies that help children feel understood, regulated, and ready to thrive.
At the All Is Well Approach, we don’t just bring a dog into schools. We bring relational understanding, evidence informed strategies, and safe, attuned spaces for children. Lola the Therapy Dog is part of a growing, whole child approach to emotional wellbeing, where connection, curiosity, and co-regulation guide everything we do.
A new school year, and a new look for All Is Well
The new school year is underway, and so is a new chapter for All Is Well. Our work is growing, and so is the way we support children, schools and the adults around them, through PAWS, PLAY, ART and LEARN.
Same values, same Lola, just a little more of what All Is Well has to offer. 💙
At the All Is Well Approach, we believe that when children feel emotionally safe, their ability to learn, grow, and connect flourishes. Emotional safety isn’t a luxury, it’s the foundation of education, wellbeing, and lifelong resilience.
I’m Catherine Whitlow, Published Author, Qualified Teacher, and Animal-Assisted Intervention Therapist, working alongside Lola, my gentle, intuitive Therapy Dog, a twice-national award finalist and recipient of a High Commendation. Together, we offer trauma informed training, interactive Therapy Dog sessions, structured therapeutic play and creative wellbeing sessions, whole class themed sessions, and staff workshops shaped around the real world needs of pupils, staff, and settings. Whether you’re in Warrington, Widnes, Liverpool, or nearby, we’re here to support emotional wellbeing.
Our work is grounded in relational neuroscience, developmental theory, and the everyday power of co-regulation. Whether delivering staff training, child led sessions, or whole school wellbeing strategies, we lead with compassion, curiosity, and evidence informed practice, because healing and learning grow from the same roots.
Creating Support Around the Child
Emotional wellbeing doesn’t exist in isolation. It is shaped by relationships, routines, environments, and the adults around a child or young person.
That’s why we work alongside schools, residential settings and community based organisations, including charities, early help services, and volunteer led initiatives, to support the children they care for while also recognising the important role of the adults around them.
Our aim is to make support practical, inclusive and responsive to the needs of each child, setting and community.
More than one way to support wellbeing
Every child is different, so our work isn't built around one method. We bring together Animal Assisted Intervention, therapeutic play, creativity and art, alongside trauma informed practice, choosing what fits the child, group, school or setting.
Sometimes that means Lola. Sometimes it means play. Sometimes it's making, creating, moving, talking, learning, or simply having a safe space to be.
PAWS | PLAY | ART | LEARN
Different ways in, with the same aim of helping children feel safe, understood and ready to connect and learn.
See All Is Well in action
From school visits and wellbeing activities to special moments with Lola, our Facebook page is where we share the everyday connections, smiles and stories behind our work.
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“When I stroke Lola’s ears, my brain stops going too fast.”
— A child who finds the world a bit too loud sometimes.
Get started with All Is Well, today.
Whether you're a school leader, teacher, or community partner, we would love to hear from you.