As the world’s first neuroscience and play-based digital family mental health app, we are immensely proud to partner with Dorothy House Hospice Care to support families facing life-limiting illness.
From May 2025 onwards we are collaborating with the Family Services Team at Dorothy House to offer patients and their families free access to our award-winning wellbeing app. We’ve helped more than 30,000 families since our conception in 2021, and are keen to play our part to remove additional worries from families impacted by life-limiting illness.
“When children are trying to deal with difficult situations, such as a parent who is unwell, it can be challenging to manage their big emotions. These big emotions often lead to challenging behaviours, adding additional stress and worry for struggling families. lumin&us makes it easy to support children by fostering, building and maintaining relationships through fun, engaging play, laughter and meaningful connection.” Lisa Merryweather-Millard, lumin&us® Co-founder
As a parenting app rooted in neuroscience, lumin&us® encourages mental wellbeing by helping parents and children understand the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The therapeutic, play-based games and activities have been specifically designed to assist parents and professionals to meet the unique needs of each child.
Vital support when it’s needed most
The experienced team of specialists within Dorothy House’s Family Support Services include social workers, counsellors, children’s workers, therapists and spiritual support staff to help patients and their families adjust emotionally, spiritually and practically, at any stage of a life limiting illness.
Working with individuals or groups, the Family Support Services provide a variety of approaches to care for our community, including bereavement groups, children and young people’s services and spiritual care.
“We are delighted to partner with lumin&us to offer a free, user-friendly digital tool for families in our care. Alongside specialist psychological and spiritual support, this tool will enable patients and families to support young people at a time of crisis; before and after the death of a loved one.” Anne Montague – Psychological Support Lead, Dorothy House Patient & Family Services
