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Child & Family

Helping families navigate life’s challenges with confidence & compassion

I provide a specialist service for families:

  • Is your child showing anxiety or big feelings through behaviour or meltdowns? Do they struggle with confidence or self esteem?

  • Are you stuck in a battle with your child’s emotions or behaviours? Have you tried everything but nothing seems to work or stick?

  • Are you exhausted, overwhelmed or feel burnt out as a parent? Trying your best, but juggling competing work, life & caring demands?

  • Do you feel guilty or frustrated for losing your cool yet again? Do you compare yourself & your family to others who seem to have it all figured out?

  • Or, are you, or your child, neurodivergent? Struggling with overwhelm in a world not built for your nervous systems, misunderstood or masking to fit in at the expense of your energy & mental health?

Developmental Assessment

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  • In person assessment & observation of your child's overall development via:

    • parent assessment

    • nursery/school observation

    • parent-child assessment

    • play/cognitive assessment, if helpful

  • Recommendations & tools to support your child's development & emotions

  • Parenting support or further intervention, as required

  • Pre-diagnostic screening for ADHD & Autism

Psychological Therapies

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Children up to Primary Age - In person, evidence-based assessment & therapies for mild to moderate issues such as:

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  • Stress

  • Worry

  • Anxiety

  • Phobias

  • Low confidence/self esteem

  • Sadness/mild low mood

  • Sleep

  • Understanding & responding to behaviour

  • Managing change & transitions

  • Family or social relationships

  • Coping with tics

Parent Coaching & Therapies

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Parent In Person Therapies - 50 mins/ fortnightly​​

  • Exploring your own experience of being parented & how this affects your parenting

  • Mild to moderate emotional or mental health issues that impact on parenting (including stress, burnout, anxiety, low self esteem, low mood, irritability, perfectionism, procrastination)​​​​​​​​​

Online Parent Consultations - 90 minutes

  • One off online/telephone consultation

  • To explore, understand & provide resources & a clear action plan for a single parenting, child or family issue

  • Follow up email check in for supportive accountability

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​Online Parent Coaching - 50 mins/x2-4 weekly 

  • Understanding & responding to your child's emotions & behaviour

  • Parent-child relationships & attachment

  • ​Coping with parenthood

  • Support for you as a parent(s) following the diagnosis of your child with a significant health condition​​

  • A neuroaffirming approach to:

    • ​​​parenting your neurodivergent child

    • parenting as a neurodivergent parent​

    • Needs & preferences met e.g. cameras off

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