Common reasons for seeking therapy for your child include:
- Attachment
- Behaviour
- Communication
- Depression, crying, anxiety
- Eating and food-related themes
- Family breakups
- Low self-esteem
- Overcoming trauma or grief
- Social and relationship growth
Children often present with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties when facing difficult developmental or life events. I offer thoughtful and creative therapy interventions to support their emotional growth and capacity to manage. Parent consultations can be offered alongside your child’s therapy.
“Don’t think you haven’t lived long enough to have a story to tell”
Patrick Ness – A Monster Calls
Teenagers can face all the above issues and an ever-growing number of challenges. From the pressures of school life to relationships, to the development of their identity, to the lure of the internet, adolescents have all kinds of pressures to deal with. If you have a teenager who is showing some of these typical signs of adolescent psychological problems, then psychotherapy or dramatherapy could help.
Issues worked with Include:
- Anxiety and/or stress
- Apparent changes in personality
- Difficulties in attending school/college
- Difficulty in coping with daily life
- Extended period of depression and lethargy
- Excessive worrying
- Noticeable changes in eating and/or sleeping
- References to suicide or self-harm
- Volatile mood
In working with children and teenagers, parents and carers are also offered consultations alongside the individual work with the referred client so that there is some shared thinking around the presenting difficulties and the parental understanding and response to the child/young person. This will be discussed with you at the initial consultation regarding your child’s current difficulties.
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