No good parent wants to see their child struggle with mental health challenges. The effects are wide reaching and are typically quick to spiral into other areas of life. As a parent myself, I know how important it is to get the right help, at the right time from the right person.
Is Your Child Struggling?
If you have noticed a change in your child’s behaviour or emotional wellbeing? If so, this could be a sign that they are starting to experience difficulties in their mental health. Often, what may start out as small worries and anxieties, can quickly escalate into:
- Not sleeping at night
- Refusal to eat foods they once enjoyed
- Becoming less social or experiencing separation worries
Contrary to popular belief, recent data exploring the long term impact of unaddressed anxiety has shown that these problems can escalate fast. Anxiety related issues are unlikely to resolve themselves and it is more usual for them to grow considerably worse without intervention.
That’s why, at my therapy practice in Harpenden, I will work with your child in a timely manner so that they are able to avoid the more significant mental health challenges such as OCD (an area that I specialise in), phobias, traumas, habits and clinical levels of anxiety.
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The Child Therapy services I provide to children and families throughout St Albans and Harpenden are bespoke to the needs of your family. As a licenced NLP4Kids Practitioner, I can help with a number of different issues that your child may be facing.
- Anxiety– anxiety can present in different ways and because of different circumstances. Having anxiety can prevent your child from meeting up with friends, doing different activities, getting the most out of school and life etc.
- OCD- (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) having yourself and your days being consumed by thoughts and rituals. missing out on the here and now, living in super heightened awareness of every little thing. Magical thinking by creating a scenario in the mind but believing it to be true. OCD can present itself in different ways, it can be a fear of germs disease, intrusive thoughts, touching things a certain amount of times, checking locks, doors, plugs or having to have everything in a certain order. Children are very good at masking the symptoms of OCD when in public but once at home this is where it can all unravel.
- School Refusal- bullying, learning difficulties, attachment issues, control amongst others can be reasons why your child doesn’t want to go to school. Different types of un wanted behaviour maybe displayed.
- Low Self-Esteem- lacking in confidence, self belief and self worth. this can limit your Childs achievements and lead to depression.
- Anger– frustration, overwhelming feelings and not knowing how to express them or channel them in a better more positive way.
Above are just a few examples of problems I can help with.
In my therapy practice in Harpenden I teach strategies and techniques that will enable your child to conquer their problems and continue using the techniques to help them successfully navigate through life. I offer a free no obligation consultation which gives us all an opportunity for to meet and have a chat together about the problem, how we will progress going forward and of course to make sure that everyone is comfortable working together. After that the sessions will last approximately one hour and I would suggest attending between two and eight sessions the average being about Five. As the parent you will be kept up to date on the progress either by having a chat at the end of a session or by email.
You don’t have to continue to see me until life is perfect. I will have given your child the tools and techniques that they can continue to use to combat new challenges. You are also more than welcome to join me for a session so you can learn how to support your child as they implement the new changes in to their life.
NLP is different from other talking therapies but similar to CBT as it uses a proactive approach and leads to a quicker change of state.
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