Threshold & Containment Consulting

Welcome

Threshold & Containment Consulting supports organisations working under emotional, ethical, and systemic pressure.

We specialise in moments where services, teams, or leaders are at a threshold — developing new mental health services, navigating regulatory demands, building teams, or carrying levels of complexity that make clear thinking difficult. Our work focuses on containment: creating the psychological conditions in which people and systems can think, plan, and move forward safely.

This is not off-the-shelf consultancy. Our work is tailored, bespoke, and psychologically informed, shaped around the realities of your service, your people, and your responsibilities.

What We Do

We work with organisations across health, social care, and complex mental health provision, from early concept through to delivery, inspection, and consolidation.
- Mental health service concept development: Designing psychologically informed services from initial idea through to implementation
- Set-up and development of supported living and complex care services: Including service models, staffing structures, policies, and values-led practice
- Clinical governance consultancy: Supporting safe, ethical, and reflective governance that holds risk without becoming defensive
- CQC and Ofsted readiness and response: Preparation for inspection, support during inspection periods, and embedding sustainable post-inspection improvements
- Training and workforce development: Bespoke training for leaders and teams, including psychologically informed practice, leadership under pressure, managing complexity, and reflective working
- Recruitment support: Helping organisations recruit thoughtfully — clarifying roles, values, and authority to build teams that can hold the emotional demands of the work
- Tailored organisational consultancy: Bespoke plans developed collaboratively with you

Holding complexity at moments of change