The New Beginnings Integrated Core Needs Clinical Framework brings together key concepts from Circle of Security, schema therapy, and attachment theory through a shared focus on core emotional needs.

The New Beginnings Core Needs approach combines a clinical framework for perinatal clinicians with parent-facing resources and worksheets to support its application in-session and via telehealth.

Working with parents in the perinatal period involves supporting them through a time of profound transformation. It can stir deep emotions, shift identity, and bring both joy and challenge. It also offers a unique opportunity for healing and for reshaping intergenerational patterns. It is within this space that a clear, attachment- and needs-based way of understanding both parents and infants can support meaningful and lasting change.

The framework offers flexibility. It can be used as a standalone approach supporting assessment, treatment planning, and intervention, or as an adjunct within a clinician’s existing way of working