YOUNG PEOPLE & THEIR FAMILIES
We support young people with a range of mental health and neurodevelopment difficulties including:
Issues we can support with:
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ARFID and picky eating (we do not work with Anorexia as we do not have links to dieticians)
Attachment and separation anxiety
Difficulties regulating feelings such as anger, anxiety, frustration
Low mood
Sleep problems
Soiling/encopresis
Phobias
Eating difficulties ('fussy eating' not eating disorders as an MDT approach is usually best)
Behavioural difficulties
ADHD/ADD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sensory processing difficulties
Bullying and academic difficulties
Anxiety, OCD, obsessions and worries
Test and performance anxiety
Trauma and PTSD
Verbal and physical aggression at home
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Our Approach
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Our approach usually involves a mix of direct work with the young people (dependent on their age) and work with parents(s) for indirect sessions for psychoeducation, to formulate and understand the child's difficulties, and to develop strategies to support them. Where needed we also liaise with school and other people in their support network. We will often suggest books and online resources to help alongside the work in sessions.
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Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) parent training - with Alexandra Dencheva
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- Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) parent training is a method aimed at addressing harmful and destructive behaviours, particularly child-to-parent violence and abuse. Its goal is to help parents resist the problematic and often self-destructive behaviours of their children.
- As research indicates it is crucial to directly confront aggression or self-destructive behaviours in specific ways with careful, supportive planning (PartnershipProjects, n.d.), much time in NVR is spent planning, preparing and carrying out concrete action against the violence in life outside the session.
- Parents/carers learn to acquire a position of strength, developing resistance against the violence in a step-by-step manner, discussing and planning each new step whilst reflecting and building on what they experience in the process.
- Outcome studies have shown that NVR is effective in improving the behaviour of a large percentage of young people, reducing parents’ feelings of helplessness and raising their confidence as well as bringing a more peaceful atmosphere in the family (Omer & Lebowitz, 2016)
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Parent training - with Freena Tailor
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We offer a range of evidence-based structured parenting approaches to support parents and promote sensitive confident parenting, and improve relationships between child and parent...
- Triple P Positive parenting programme: to help parents confidently handle parenting challenges (for children up to 16)
- Mellow Parenting: focusing on attachment and relationships through responsive caregiving in parent-child interactions (for children age 0-5)
- The Incredible Years programme: to enhance parent confidence and skills, and support children's social and emotional skills (for children aged 6-12).
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Sessions with young people:
We also work 1:1 with young people in creative ways using talking, drawing, storytelling, videos and books as are appropriate to their age and interests. Some examples of these are in photos below!
