Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
About
Children and young people can sometimes feel overwhelmed by strong emotions such as anxiety, sadness, or anger. This may show itself in withdrawal, difficulties at school or in friendships, or in behaviours that are unhelpful. Psychotherapy offers your child a confidential space where these experiences can be explored and understood.
Through therapy, your child is helped to put their feelings into words and to find new ways of expressing themselves that feel safer and more manageable. This helps your child to improve their confidence, build stronger relationships with family and peers, and build greater emotional resilience over time.
Therapy is delivered in an age- appropriate way. For example younger children may use play to communicate what they are feeling, while adolescents and young adults often prefer to use their therapy session to talk.
Who can benefit from Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy?
Therapy can be helpful for children who are experiencing low mood, emotional dysregulation, or behavioural difficulties. Therapy can also help young people who find peer relationships difficult, such as problems with friendships, social confidence, or feeling isolated or misunderstood.
Therapy can be particularly supportive for children and adolescents who are struggling at school, including school-based anxiety or avoidance. At The Integratis Clinic we believe that working with your child’s school can be very helpful where appropriate.
If your child has a diagnosis of Autism, ADHD or another condition, therapy can help them to understand their diagnosis and to also explore how this may have an impact on their emotional and social wellbeing. We are here to provide a space that is carefully adapted to meet your child’s needs so that they can feel safe in sharing what they are struggling with.
Our aim is to help your child feel that they can understand themselves better, become more settled and confident in meeting life’s challenges.
Our Approach
Our first priority when you contact us for support is to work with you to make sure that your child is accessing the right kind of support. We offer a free 15 minute phone call which is our chance to listen to your concerns in more detail. This is then followed by a 90 minute initial consultation - this is an adults only meeting in which your child’s developmental history is taken and your goals for therapy can be discussed too. Your child is then offered 3 initial sessions with a therapist which is our chance to get to know your child better, start to understand what lies behind their difficulties and to see whether psychotherapy is the right approach for them. You will then be invited to a parent’s meeting in which recommendations will be made for your child’s care going forward.
We believe in supporting our clients all the way from first contact through to accessing help. You will always be assisted by a clinician to access any recommendations that have been made - whether that is offering ongoing sessions with us, referrals to trusted colleagues or introducing you to other relevant services.
Contact us
Please do contact us for further information and to make an appointment. We look forward to working with you