• Veterans and Families Service

    Veterans and Families Service

    How can we help?

    Our whole-family, holistic interventions are tailor-made to meet your family’s specific needs.

    Experience in the military continues to have an impact long after leaving service, and this can sometimes bring unexpected difficulties for Veterans and their family members, causing them to feel overwhelmed and isolated.

    Our aim is to walk alongside you, provide you with space to talk, explore ways of working through the tough issues and work with you to maintain the stability of your family relationships so you can move forward – individually and together.

    What we have to offer

    We provide therapeutic sessions for each family member and offer facilitated joint sessions between family members, especially where there are issues that are causing conflict in your relationships.

    Our confidential sessions help you to:

    • Process what’s going on for you in a safe space
    • Identify what you need individually and reflect on the needs of your family as a whole
    • Gain understanding of what’s going on for other family members, and how you impact each other
    • Improve communication to help you safely and confidently express what’s going on for you
    • Help you work through challenging issues together without escalating conflict in your relationships
    • Identify solutions that help you to move forward individually and as a family
    • Engage with specialist services in health, social care and education, as required.

    Interventions are delivered remotely by our specialist practitioners, via Teams, Zoom or WhatsApp, and we encourage self-referrals as well as those from professionals.

    Who is eligible?

    Please get in touch if you, or those you are working with, meet the following criteria:

    • You are a Veteran / Service Leaver or a family member of someone who has served in the Armed Forces.
    • You and your family are experiencing challenges with family life, relationships or mental health difficulties.
    • You have at least one child in your family – you may live with them or separately.
    • You or your family live in Wales. (Please give us a call if you live outside Wales as we still may be able to help).

    We look forward to hearing from you!

    Please click here to view/download our Information Leaflet 

    Project address

    Cardiff University Social Science Research Park (SPARK), spark, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ

    Ways to get in touch

    Give us a call on 0300 1800 888

    Or complete our online Referral Form

    Alternatively, you can download and fill in our Word Document Referral Form and email it to: [email protected]

    What people say about our service

    • "We were too caught up in life to access the help we needed, we didn’t have the energy to fight for what we needed."
    • "Acted as a voice on my behalf when I couldn’t get my responses across in a calm or easy to understand format."
    • "We have been supported in trust issues with other professionals and understand where that comes from."
    • "Increased confidence in approaching other services for help."
    • "Helped with the distrust of statutory services."
    • "I think we’ve come such a long way since we started with TGP Cymru. They are genuine, helpful and always make sessions as comfortable and stress free as possible."
    • "I am extremely grateful for everything that TGP has done for me and would highly recommend them."
    • "Without this service we would have simply ended up in court and at war with one another and life would have been pretty horrific for everyone but most of all the children."
    • "An amazing service that provide such unique tools and process, without this I wouldn't like to think what would be."
    • "We are able to open up, discuss things and work through situations together."
    • "We’ve never been so open and close to each other."
    • "Me and my wife talk more now rather than argue over things. I have started to think more about how my actions impacted my wife and my children."
    • "I am able to stay calm and talk more and understand others and had someone listen to me."
    • "We don’t blame each other for our circumstances now."
    • "Helped me to focus and better understand both my own and my family’s needs."
    • "We are able to communicate effectively, manage behaviours and actually feel like a family unit."
    • "We are closer as a family and no longer struggle with our relationships. We can talk freely, diffuse situations without confrontation and really feel like a family."
    • "It’s helped me see my worth and also helping me bond with my family better."
    • "It’s helped us access services that we desperately needed which will positively impact our family and make a huge difference."
    • "It has been a very safe space for me to say how I am feeling and how it is impacting my life. Even joint sessions with my wife have been so good, we discuss things that are going wrong in an environment that doesn’t cause the usual argument."