Helping kids navigate worry, emotions and behaviour

The most common concern we support kids with in our practice is anxiety, ranging from small worries to quite acute fears, both of which can affect confidence, behaviour and enjoyment of everyday activities. Emotional dysregulation, negative self-talk, sibling conflict, friendship issues, school avoidance or difficulties and withdrawn behaviour are other common challenges we support kids (and their parents) with.

Building practical skills for kids with autism and ADHD

An autism or ADHD diagnosis (or both) marks the start of a new phase of a family’s journey. We have many years of experience with supporting kids and teens with an established diagnosis, and work with them and their parents 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.

Read our article about how therapy can help kids with ADHD.

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.