For Parents
Parenting is HARD, really hard sometimes.
When your child is struggling emotionally or is ill it impacts YOU! It impacts your relationships with each other, your partner and your other children. It increases the emotional load that you carry as parents and affects your own ability to deal with things such as stress.
It can heighten anxiety, create unhealthy habits as a way of coping, it can cause depression and in some cases there is a grief process for what you thought parenting would be like. Sadness, guilt, disappointments, anger, feeling lost and unable to cope and feeling helpless are all emotions that arise when parenting. Even the thought of not enjoying parenting is actually very normal.
These are all valid emotions and importantly they can co-exist with the wonderful emotions of joy, love and pride that also arise when parenting. One does not invalidate the other.
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How I can Help
I specialise in working with parents who’s parenting journey is proving a challenge for whatever reason. It could be that I also see your child in clinic or your child might not be a client of mine. We can work together on our own, with your child or with your partner or even the whole family. We will find the right combination for you.
My work covers all the emotions and problems that arise when you become a parent.
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Birth trauma – Mums and Dads
ADHD, ADD and ASD parenting coaching
Parenting struggles (anxious children, sensitive children, children with sleep issues, children with explosive behaviour, children with addictive behaviour etc)
Parenting children with additional needs
Parental overwhelm
Parental Guilt
Depression, stress and anxiety
Habit formation as a coping strategy
Family dynamics
Grief and bereavement
Feeling you have lost yourself in being a parent
How to get the balance between being a Mum/Dad alongside being a partner and a parent.
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Some areas that I work in for parents and children
Anxiety and Stress including the physical symptoms such as IBS, Sickness, inability to
swallow, tummy pain etc
Panic attacks
Food control / Eating disorders
Depression
Sleep issues
Grief and bereavement
Exam stress
Child / Parent relationships
School refusal or low attendance due to stress
Bullying and being bullied
ASD
ADHD
ADD
OCD
Bereavement
Trauma
Family dynamic
Couples counselling
Separation anxiety for children and parents
Empty nest syndrome
Low self-esteem and confidence