Tag: child therapy
Understanding and Expressing Your Emotions: A Guide for Teens
Emotions are like colourful rainbows in the sky – they come in all shapes and sizes, from happy yellows to sad blues and everything in between. It’s okay to feel all these emotions, and guess what? It’s a superpower to understand and express them healthily. Here in my[…]
Read moreEffective Ways to Manage Stress for Teens: Tips and Activities
Have you ever felt like stress is trying to rain on your parade? If so, don’t worry – there are plenty of fun and practical ways to manage stress and keep those gloomy days at bay! Stress can feel like an overwhelming force that makes you anxious or[…]
Read moreStop Being So Pink!
The reason why I’m talking to you about the colour pink is because to me pink is not just a colour. Pink is a way in which some people think – I’ve noticed that there are some young people that I work with in Hemel Hempstead (I’m going[…]
Read moreThe Fastest Way to Get Rid of Mental Health Issues
Before we get into this topic, I just wanted to point out to you that if you have a medical health emergency the best thing that you can do is get yourself off to your nearest healthcare clinic, hospital or urgent care centre, if you feel like you[…]
Read moreWhen You Want To Quit
I am going to be giving you some tips and hints about what to do when you feel like you just want to quit. When you reach the point of feeling like you just can’t do the thing that you’re supposed to be doing and you want to[…]
Read moreChildren & Young People: Taking Charge of Your Brain
I’m going to be talking to you about taking full responsibility for how your brain works and what you are doing in there. One of the things that I hear a lot from the young people that I work with is that they know the right things to[…]
Read moreGetting Rid of Anxiety
I’m going to be sharing with you some more tips around overcoming anxiety. I want to share with you some stuff that really works more as a long term plan for getting yourself out of an anxious state. The very first thing is that you need to start[…]
Read moreHelping SAD Children and Teenagers (Stressed, Anxious and Depressed)
Stress, Anxiety and Depression are the biggest mental heath issues for children and teenagers. For some the effects of these problems can be so acute and isolating, that suicidal thoughts take hold. For the first time, statistics on suicide victims in the UK have changed. Previously, males in[…]
Read moreHelping Children and Young People Tackle Depression
Amongst stress and anxiety, depression in children is one of the top mental health conditions that young people face. Depression is an extreme feeling of hopelessness, sadness and lack of self esteem. Everyone feels sad sometimes, but when a child is depressed, the sadness or low feelings are[…]
Read moreSelective Mutism
Something I encountered for the first time many years ago (but didn’t have a “label” for yet) is selective mutism. The symptoms of this are characterised when a child who has an ability to communicate verbally does not. Often the child will have to be coaxed and encouraged[…]
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