Interaction in Focus
Strengthening Relationships Through Video
Video Interaction Guidance & Video Enhanced Reflective Practice
Important moments within relationships can happen quickly and pass unnoticed.
Video offers an opportunity to slow interactions down and notice more closely what supports connection, trust and participation. Rather than focusing on what has gone wrong, VIG and VERP help people recognise strengths and build on moments that are already working.
Both approaches can also reveal patterns in how people communicate, respond and connect with others. Bringing these patterns into greater awareness can open up new possibilities, helping people use their strengths more intentionally and develop their relationships with confidence.
Video Interaction Guidance
For parents and carers
Video Interaction Guidance (VIG)is a brief, strengths-based approach that helps parents and carers understand and strengthen their relationship with their child.
We begin by considering what you would like to be different. A short video is then made during an ordinary activity with your child. I select brief moments in which communication or connection is going well, and we look at these together during a shared review.
VIG can help you:
understand your child’s communication more clearly
recognise what you are already doing that makes a difference
strengthen confidence, connection and enjoyment
respond differently during difficult moments
The focus is not on mistakes or criticism. It is a gentle, collaborative process that helps you notice and build upon your existing relational strengths.
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Video Enhanced Reflective Practice
For professionals, teams & organisations
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice, or VERP, uses short clips from everyday professional practice to reveal the small moments that shape effective interaction.
Participants begin with something they would like to develop, record a brief example of their work and identify moments where the interaction is going well. Through guided reflection, they can see strengths that may otherwise pass unnoticed, understand how their way of communicating influences others and consider how effective practice can be extended.
VERP brings close attention to what happens between people: between a teacher and child, a psychologist and parent, a healthcare professional and patient, or colleagues working together. It explores spoken and unspoken communication, shared attention and the subtle responses that support connection, participation and understanding.
The approach is thoughtful, strengths-based and shaped around the needs of each person, team or setting. It can be offered individually, in small groups or as a tailored programme across an organisation.
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My approach
My work is grounded in more than 25 years of practice as an Educational Psychologist. Over recent years, VIG and VERP have become an important part of how I support families, professionals and organisations to understand relationships more deeply and build on what is already working.
My approach is calm, collaborative and non-judgemental, with careful attention to each person’s goals, context and pace.
I am an AVIGuk-accredited VIG practitioner and am listed in the national AVIGuk practitioner directory. All recording is agreed in advance, with careful attention to consent, confidentiality and the appropriate use of video.
Begin with a conversation
Families, professionals and organisations are welcome to arrange a free initial conversation to explore whether VIG or VERP would be helpful.
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