Support for Children & Young People
I offer counselling, coaching and mentoring for children and young people aged 11 to 17 years
How can counselling and coaching help?
Some of the common issues that teeenagers grapple with are:
school attendance,
home or school expectations of compliance
self image,
family and peer relationships,
academic pressure,
low mood,
excessive anxiety,
feeling powerless and unheard...
Your ADHD or Autism diagnosis (for those who have one) does not have to define you. A counsellor / coach / mentor can help you explore the sources of your difficulties and identify tools and strategies that could help.
Sometimes it can be helpful to include parents/carers in sessions either separately or together with the young person or both. This is always in consultation with and agreement of the young person.
For counselling to have a positive effect, the decision to engage in counselling must lie with the young person.
Supporting young people
Some young people find it easier to talk with the help of tools and prompts so I utilise these whenever it is appropriate.
This might be graphic thinking organisers to help frame the conversation or shared viewing of a film or reading a book or exploring a poem. Exploring our problems through characters in stories removes the focus from the self. A bit of distance to the problem can help it to be viewed with a little more objectivity.
I draw on my empathy, my training, my professional experience in the UK and around the world and my personal experience as a child, a young person, a parent and grandparent to help me connect with the young person I am working with regardless of culture, religion, gender, sexuality, or any label either self assigned or assigned by others.
Fees:
- £45 per 45 minute session online
- Additional £12 room fee for in person counselling (except in Stoke Gabriel)
Sessions booked in blocks of 5 attract a 10% discount subject to Terms and Conditions.
Get in touch
If you are the parent/carer of a teenager who could benefit from counselling / coaching, you are welcome to contact me to arrange a 15 minute call to see whether I might be a good fit for your child/young person.
You can also call me on +44 (0)7541857110.