What is Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy?
Sometimes children and young people experience powerful emotions that they struggle to understand. These feelings may be expressed through disruptive and sometimes disturbing behaviour. This could cause upset to them and the people around them. This often negatively impacts their learning and development. It affects their overall well-being and harms their relationships with peers and family members.
A Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist is a professional who works with Children, Young People and Families. A Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist is skilled at understanding what children and young people communicate through their behaviour and play. A Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist does this by listening and observing their behaviour and play. A Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist can help children and young people make sense of their feelings and express them with words. This could reduce their need to act out the feelings, become distressed and engage in disruptive behaviour.
How Psychotherapy Helps?
Psychotherapy helps by allowing children, young people and parents to express their worrying thoughts and feelings.
The therapist helps the child or young person to express their worries and other feelings and thoughts. This may happen via play or words. The psychotherapist helps the child or young person to understand and process some of the feelings and thoughts that feel overwhelming and confusing. This reduces the need to act out the feelings by behaviour, and it improves relationships with others. It also frees up space in the child’s or young person’s mind, thereby facilitating better learning and achievement in an educational setting.
Psychotherapy helps a person not only understand their feelings but also develop skills to manage new challenges, both in the present and in the future.
A Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist often works with the whole family and provides guidance to parents. They support them in understanding and managing their child's difficulties.
What is the difference between psychotherapy and counselling?
The titles psychotherapist and counsellor are often used interchangeably. Both psychotherapists and counsellors are professionals who specialise in talking therapies. The aim of both psychotherapists and counsellors is to provide support with a range of concerns affecting an individual's well-being. Sometimes a counsellor works in less depth and within a shorter timeframe than a psychotherapist. I, as a psychotherapist, work both within a short timeframe for less in-depth work and a longer term for a more in-depth approach. This depends on the individual needs of the child, adolescent and family.
I offer psychotherapy and counselling with children, young people and families in Bloomsbury, Central London and Primrose Hill, North London.
I also offer consultation and supervision to the professionals in Bloomsbury, Central London and Primrose Hill, North London. Online Therapy is also available.
For psychotherapy and counselling for children, adolescents and families in Bloomsbury, Central London, and Primrose Hill, North London, contact me via the link below.
About Me
My personal approach is flexible and led by the individual needs of the child, young person or family. I work with children and young people aged 0-25. I offer support to all family members.
Children & Young People
The psychotherapist helps the child or young person understand some of the feelings and thoughts that feel overwhelming, complicated, and difficult to make sense of.
Parents & Family
When a child or young person is experiencing difficulties, this also affects the whole family. Parent work explores different parenting approaches and improves family relationships.
Supervision & Consultation
I also provide consultation and supervision to the professionals who work closely with children and families.
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I am experienced in working with children and adolescents who present with a range of emotional or behavioural difficulties, including some complex neurodevelopmental disorders:
- Autism
- ADHD
- Down's Syndrome
- General learning difficulties and disabilities
- Specific learning difficulties and disabilities
- Anxieties linked to body image and appearance
- Low mood and depression
- Anxiety
- Sleeping difficulties
- Specific behaviour difficulties
- Relationship difficulties with peers and family
- General emotional and behavioural difficulties
I hope you find the information on my website helpful. If you have any questions about seeking child, adolescent, and parent psychotherapy and counselling in either Central London or North London, please do contact me using the link below. There is no obligation to go ahead with therapy with me, and I am happy for you to contact me first if you have concerns about your child, or if you are an adolescent who is struggling with an issue but is not sure whether a therapist could help.
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