Creative Relaxation Ideas for Children
Learning to relax is a genuine skill, and like any skill, it develops through practice, playfulness, and repetition, not through being told to calm down in the moment itself. These
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Free Anxiety Resources
Free Anxiety Resources Parents often ask me for recommendations, books, apps, or websites, that can help alongside our work together, or simply to explore in their own time. Here’s my
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How to Manage Exam Stress and Study Smart
It’s study and exam time, and I feel for you. I’m so relieved we all survived five years of exams in our own house. Just remember, you will all survive
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Ways To Boost Your Daughters Self-Esteem
I think about this constantly, both as a therapist and as a mother. What can we do to help raise a generation of girls who genuinely believe in themselves, in
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Why do children behave differently at home and school?
You collect your child from school. The teacher smiles and tells you they had a lovely day. Your child walks to the car and within ten minutes is in pieces.
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Helping Children with a Phobia
Fears are widespread in childhood, most children go through several along the way, and most simply grow out of them. But some children don’t, the fear escalates over time instead,
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Is My Child Shy or Suffers from Social Anxiety?
Parents come to me constantly wondering whether their child is simply shy, or whether something more is going on. It’s completely normal for children to go through periods of shyness,
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How Anxiety Creates Disruptive Behaviour
For children who struggle with anxiety, it’s often the start of a new term when big feelings surface most visibly. Anxiety can show up as anger or opposition before school,
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Separation Anxiety and Disorder
Does My Child Have Separation Anxiety? Separation anxiety is one of those things that sits on a spectrum. At one end it is completely normal, a healthy sign of attachment
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Create a Self-Soothe Box to Enable Calm Down
I believe strongly in empowering parents in my clinic room, and one of the simplest, most effective tools I share is the self-soothe box. Sometimes children need our help finding
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Does my Child have OCD?
Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children OCD is one of those conditions that is both frequently misunderstood and frequently missed. It is not about being tidy or a little bit
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Does my Child have ADHD?
Does My Child Have ADHD? It is one of the most common reasons parents contact me. Understandably, the internet makes it very easy to search for a diagnosis, and ADHD
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