Services for Children & Adolescents
My services can help parents, children and adolescents cope with a range of difficulties, which may include...
- Distressed and troubled children
- Tensions in family relationships
- Difficulties in making and/or keeping friends
- Coping with loss and bereavement
- Coping with chronic illnesses and/or disabilities
- Communication problems and developmental delays
- Adoption support
- School problems
- School refusal and separation anxiety
- Self harming
- Gender identity difficulties
- Suicidal ideation
- Learning related problems, test anxiety, study skills
- Angry outbursts and tantrums
Parent Consultation Service
If you are concerned about your child feeling very sad or angry, worried or depressed, it can sometimes be helpful to talk things over with a qualified professional.
Therapeutic Consultation/ Detailed Assessment Service
Offering prolonged assessment to get a better understanding of a child’s internal world through free play sessions, psychological testing and interviews with parents. Sharing the assessment findings with the recommendations to the parties involved. Detailed report can be produced upon request for an additional cost. Most people find the assessment process very therapeutic.
Family Support Service
The aim of this service is to provide a calm and non- judgemental setting, in which the therapist invites everyone to think about the troubles family members are experiencing. Creating a space to consider one’s feelings as well as family members’ help to find more constructive ways of getting along together.
Brief Supportive Psychotherapy
According to the need of the child supporting parents in understanding the developmental path of their child and offering programs individually tailored to the needs of the child and family. The aim is to help the child to remain or return or build a normal developmental path.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Children and adolescents with a range of mental health problems including severe anxieties, social, emotional, behavioural problems and developmental difficulties are offered psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The parents of children in therapy also receive support alongside children’s therapies.
Parent- Infant Psychotherapy
Helping families who might be struggling to find their feet in their relationship with their infant(s) aged 0- 12 months. Parents are seen in one- to- one sessions with their baby to talk about their concerns. Reflecting on what the baby is trying to communicate and how the parents would like to respond is the core of the work.
Late Stages of Pregnancy Support
Counselling sessions with the prospective mother enable quick, lasting, positive changes which in turn support the infant’s neuropsychological development for a healthy start. This service is sometimes followed by parent- infant psychotherapy.
