Residential Care Based in South Elmsall, Serving the UK
For individuals living with autism, complex mental health conditions, trauma histories, or behaviours that challenge, finding the right care can be incredibly difficult. Families, professionals, and local authorities often spend months searching for services that offer more than just risk management — they need a setting that promotes dignity, trust, and long-term progress.
Unfortunately, many care services fail to provide this. People are too often placed in environments that focus on containment rather than connection, and where meaningful therapeutic approaches are absent or poorly implemented.
Approved by more than 1000 patients
Years of Experience
Trusted care built on decades of experience.
Expert Care Staff
Compassionate staff delivering person-centred support.
Care Experience
Delivered by highly experienced care professionals
Therapeutic Care
Dedicated to respectful and effective care.
What Makes Us Different
We provide expert care in a safe, supportive, and person-centred environment. Our focus is on helping each individual feel valued, understood, and empowered to grow.
Based in South Elmsall
We’re proudly local and accessible to Wakefield, Pontefract, Barnsley, and surrounding areas across West Yorkshire.
Experienced Leadership
Our directors bring a combined 60+ years in specialist residential care, operational leadership, and therapeutic service development.
Calm Spaces
Every Kinwood setting is designed to promote calm, structure, emotional safety, trust, consistency, and wellbeing.
Individualised Support
Each person has a tailored care plan, shaped around DBT principles and their unique life experience.
Team Culture
We invest in staff development and wellbeing because great care starts with a strong team.
Therapeutic Focus
We embed DBT and humanistic care into daily support to promote growth and stability.
Human-Centred, DBT-Based Residential Care
Kinwood Care is a specialist residential care provider in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire. We support adults with complex needs in safe, therapeutic homes built on Humanism and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Our approach focuses on empathy, emotional safety, and helping individuals grow in confidence and independence.
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Humanism means treating each person with empathy, honesty, and acceptance — seeing them as an individual, not a diagnosis.
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DBT helps individuals manage emotions, communicate effectively, and reduce harmful behaviours, with support tailored to their abilities.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We support adults with complex needs, including autism, mental health conditions, trauma histories, and behaviours that challenge — especially those who have struggled in previous placements.
It’s a care setting designed to promote emotional safety, consistency, and structure — with staff trained to understand trauma, emotional regulation, and therapeutic support.
We embed Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) into daily care. This helps individuals manage emotions, improve relationships, and build confidence — with adaptations for different needs.
It means we treat each person with respect, empathy, and acceptance — valuing them as individuals, not labels or diagnoses.
We are based in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, and support individuals from Wakefield and surrounding areas.
Simply contact us via phone or email. We’ll arrange an assessment and guide you through our referral process.