The People Behind
Hi! I’m Rosie, an OT with a passion for helping children thrive through understanding their sensory processing, development and early experiences.
Hi! I’m Rosie, an OT with a passion for helping children thrive through understanding their sensory processing, development and early experiences.
The People Behind
Meet Phill Beisty
Child Psychotherapist
The People Behind
Why it Started
Best Start Therapy was founded in 2013 with one core belief: that every child deserves the best possible start in life when it comes to their emotional wellbeing.
That belief still shapes everything myself and Rosie do today. We wanted to create a space where people feel genuinely safe, supported, and understood - and where therapeutic care meets them exactly as they are.
Our Values
Compassion
Compassion is a fundamental value of Best Start Therapy. Meeting children and families with empathy, care, and without judgment. We create a warm, accepting space where clients feel genuinely understood and supported, no matter what challenges they’re facing.
Creativity
Creativity is central to Best Start Therapy's approach and this is what allows each of our sessions to be flexible, imaginative, and shaped by the individual, whether through play, art, metaphor, or movement. There's no set formula, only what fits for each individual child.
Integrity
In a largely unregulated field, Best Start Therapy always upholds high professional and ethical standards. With a background in safeguarding, law, and supervision, Phill brings rigour and responsibility to every aspect of his work protecting the wellbeing of the child above all else.
Authenticity
Built on being real, transparent, and grounded. Best Start Therapy doesn’t put on a clinical front - we meet families, referrers and clients as a human beings first with honest communication and a genuine intention to help.
Belief
At the heart of Best Start Therapy's practice is a core belief: every child deserves the best possible start in life. “Grow from within” reflects the view that real change comes from within - and our role is to create the conditions for that growth through skilled, compassionate support.
Trust
Trust is core to Best Start Therapy's services. Whether working with children, families, or professionals, we create a space where people feel safe, respected, and genuinely supported through everything they may be struggling with.
Our Approach
We believe real change starts when children feel safe, seen, and understood.
With creativity, care, and proven therapeutic insight, we meet children where they are and support growth in the way that fits them best.
The support we offer
Phill Beisty
Child Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy gives children a calm, consistent space to explore emotions and experiences that may feel overwhelming or hard to express.
When behaviour reflects deeper struggles, therapy helps children make sense of what they’re feeling, supporting emotional awareness, regulation, and a stronger sense of self - all through play, creativity, and gentle conversation.
Rosie Beisty
Occupational Therapy
Our sensory systems are like a network of messages constantly travelling between the body and the brain. Sometimes those messages get blocked, overwhelmed or misread a bit like traffic jams, detours or volume dials turned up too high.
Occupational therapy helps tune those signals so the body and brain can work together more smoothly.
The Best Start Therapy Space
Therapy takes place in a cosy wooden cabin in the garden. It is quiet, private, and designed to feel relaxed and child-friendly. Many young people find the space helps them feel more at ease from the very first session.
Quiet garden setting
Cosy wood cabin
Interior
The cabin is filled with creative, therapeutic tools - from board games and sensory objects to story cubes and a doll’s house. Everything in the space is chosen to support emotional expression, storytelling, and connection.
Puppets +
soft toys
Lego Chess
Card games
Board Games
Conversation Cubes
Doll's House
Comfortable Seating
Feelings
Posters
Sand tray objects
Wooden
Train Tracks
