The Reset Room
Introduction
The Reset Room is Break Tha Cycle’s newly developed, structured wellbeing programme for children, young people and parents in Waltham Forest.

It brings together our existing youth emotional support and our long-running Parent Lounge into one coordinated model, offering a joined-up pathway that strengthens emotional wellbeing, builds resilience and supports whole-family stability.
The Reset Room provides consistent, relational and culturally responsive support for families who need practical, emotional and early mental health help.
Our Existing Work
Break Tha Cycle has been delivering:
Youth Emotional Wellbeing Support
Including mentoring, grounding activities, creative wellbeing sessions, emotional regulation support and early de-escalation. These sessions are delivered across schools, youth hubs and community spaces.
Parent Lounge
Our established weekly Parent Lounge provides trauma-informed parenting tools, behaviour strategies, SEND guidance, advocacy and supportive space for parents navigating challenges.
Both strands are active, trusted and embedded in the community.
What’s New: A More Structured, Coordinated Model
The Reset Room enhances and expands the work we already do by creating:
- A clearer, joined-up pathway between CYP and parents
- A formal structure for emotional regulation and family stabilisation
- Extended hours for CYP (up to 9am–7pm)
- Strengthened Parent Lounge delivery with a three-practitioner team
- More capacity through our flexible youth practitioner team
- More consistency across schools and community settings
- A unified wellbeing and crisis-prevention approach
This evolution allows us to reach more families, improve continuity and respond more effectively to rising emotional needs.
Youth Support
We support young people with:
- Emotional regulation and grounding
- 1:1 relational mentoring
- Creative wellbeing
- After-school and early-evening support
- Transitions back into school or routine
- Safe-space sessions
- School-based delivery
- Early de-escalation and crisis-prevention
Our flexible staffing team means young people can access timely support across multiple settings.
Parent Lounge
Parent Lounge continues to run weekly and now benefits from a more structured approach, including:
- Trauma-informed parenting tools
- Behaviour and routine strategies
- SEND support and guidance
- Peer support and connection
- One-to-one consultations
- Advocacy for parents navigating education and services
- A strengthened three-practitioner delivery model for capacity and safety
- Form filling (DLA, PIP, ECHP and Housing support)
This ensures parents receive consistent, high-quality support aligned with their children’s needs.
Why We Developed The Reset Room
The Reset Room was developed in response to:
- Increasing emotional needs among CYP
- Parental burnout and limited local support
- Rising school exclusions and reduced timetables
- Barriers to accessing traditional mental health services
- The need for earlier, relational, culturally grounded support
By integrating our youth and parent work into one structured programme, we provide clearer pathways, stronger continuity and more impactful support.
Our Approach
- Trauma-informed
- Neurodiversity-affirming
- Culturally responsive
- Relationship-based
- Flexible-hours
- Whole-family focus
- Community-rooted
- Safeguarding-led
Impact
Through The Reset Room, families experience:
- Improved emotional regulation
- Reduced escalation into crisis
- Increased school engagement
- Stronger family stability
- Greater parental confidence
- Clearer routines and strategies
- More equitable access to support
Referrals
Referrals can be made by:
- Parents
- Schools
- Self-referrals (where appropriate)
- Youth workers
- Early Help
- Community organisations
We work collaboratively with partners to provide the right support at the right time.
We continue to strengthen and develop The Reset Room to meet the growing needs of local families, and our model will expand further as the programme evolves.
