Helping kids navigate worry, emotions and behaviour.

The most common concerns we see in our practice are anxious thoughts (we teach techniques for easing apprehensions and reframing thoughts in a positive direction), and big feelings (recognising when and why feelings such as anger start to build and ways to communicate when they do). Negative self-talk, sibling conflict, school avoidance and withdrawn behaviour are other common challenges we support kids (and their parents) with.

Building practical skills for kids with autism and ADHD.

We also see kids with an established autism or ADHD diagnosis (or both), and work with them to build practical skills that help with creating more harmonious and productive experiences at school and at home, such as emotional regulation techniques, mindfulness around flexible thinking, organisation skills and social skills.

How we work with you and your child.

If you’ve not seen a psychologist yourself, you might wonder whether it would be helpful for your child, and how it might work. The first step is always to speak with you (the parent, parents or carer/s) to understand what your concerns are, and to explain how we could explore and support those challenges – it is very much a team effort. Our approach is focussed on building trust and rapport, interactive, and age appropriate – we’ll quite likely play games (we love Uno, Crazy Chefs and Jenga!) and find kids enjoy coming along to their sessions.