Services
Child and adolescent psychotherapy
Children and young people face a range of challenges as they transition to adulthood. Complex family relationships, bullying, low self esteem, gender identity, education pressure, sexuality, peer relationships can contribute to behaviours that cause distress to both themselves and those around them. Their feelings and behaviour frequently impact on their ability to learn and engage in education.
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Individual psychotherapy can provide children and adolescents with a space to make of sense of their experiences and understand how these may be impacting on their behaviour and emotional wellbeing. Through attending regular sessions children and adolescents can explore their feelings, which enhances understanding, relieves symptoms, and, over time, facilitates change.
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Parent-child psychotherapy
The quality of the parent-child relationship is of paramount importance for a child's long-term health and well-being. It is rare that a child's emotional difficulties exist in isolation.
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Parent-child psychotherapy provides an opportunity to explore feelings and experiences in a more neutral, contained setting. The sessions can help shed light on patterns of interaction and ways of communicating that are fuelling conflict within the family. They can help parents to be more empathic and attuned to their child's communications and emotional needs. Over time this will deepen their understanding of each other and improve the quality of their relationship and interactions.
Parent psychotherapy
Parenting is a hard yet crucial role, particularly for families experiencing difficulties or who have suffered trauma in the past. Parents can often feel overwhelmed or helpless to know how to make things better.
Parent sessions are designed to help parents and carers make sense of their children's behaviour and consider what it may be communicating about their children's emotional state. They also provides a space for parents to reflect on their own issues and experiences and how these might be impacting on their children and their ability to parent.
Adult psychotherapy
People often seek psychotherapy at a time when they are experiencing difficulties and distress or following a traumatic life event. Having a space to explore such difficulties can be extremely containing and can support the process of emotional recovery.
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You don't, however, have to be in crisis to benefit from psychotherapy. Some adults chose to embark on a personal journey of understanding and discovery about who they are and what has shaped their personality.