Adolescent Therapy/Counselling

Supporting young people to explore identity and life’s challenges to achieve their potential.

I work with teenagers to provide a space to explore challenging feelings and possibilities for change: enabling greater self awareness and resilience.

I provide psycho-education about how the brain processes emotion, particularly during adolescence, empowering young people with this knowledge. This enables more reflective capacity to make feelings and situations feel more manageable.

Parent Consultations

Helping you understand your child’s behaviour and how to meet their emotional needs. Sometimes children behave in ways that are difficult to understand or to know how to respond.

Children frequently express their emotions through their behaviour but without expert help it can be difficult to understand what they need. A consultation session takes a look at your child’s history and present difficulties providing insight, suggestions and recommendations for how to move forward.

Child-Parent Therapy

Putting your relationship with your child first to improve communication and enjoyment.

A child’s brain grows to be resilient and caring, feel safe, have positive relationships and cope with feelings through their relationships with their main carers.

Sometimes this relationship needs some extra attention to help the child feel understood and more secure and to increase ways of playing and interacting that strengthen the existing bond.

Parent Support

Sessions to guide you through challenging times so you have the resources to parent your children as best you can.

Parent support may be provided on it’s own or alongside sessions for your child so the positive impact of the work continues in the home.

Learning about the neuroscience of child development and how to respond to your child so their growing brain can navigate the complexities of school life, emotions, friendships, home life and the increasing societal pressures not only helps your relationship with your child but supports them to gain confidence and resilience.

Reports & Letters for schools & other agencies

Sharing expert understanding of your child with other professionals. Many children need all the adults working with them to understand them better and work together to meet their needs.

Once I know your child and with your permission, I can share insightful information with other professionals about your child’s emotional and behavioural difficulties and provide advice, information and resources.