What’s Your *Real* Problem: Parents and Professionals

Before working with any kind of practitioner or reaching out to an organisation to ask for mental health support for a young person, it’s a really good idea to properly define what the problem is.  The benefit of doing so will enable the practitioner to offer the right[…]

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Fear of Being Sick: Children and Young People

Emetophobia is the fear of being sick. Sometimes people develop this phobia because they were once ill in the past and their brain keeps thinking about that old memory. Sometimes people develop emetophobia because they witness someone else being vomiting and this is a scary and unexpected thing[…]

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More Anxiety Help

We’ve made a few other videos about anxiety in the past: Stop your anxiety: https://youtu.be/QUmF-4b-3TU Stop Coronavirus worries and Anxiety: https://youtu.be/NhXkRtcP6Qg  Today’s video is all about the longer-term strategies for getting rid of anxiety. These include: Telling yourself a different story: Start to focus on what else you[…]

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How to Talk About Problems: Children and Young People

Tips for talking about your problems include: Start with the facts. Don’t worry about getting into your emotions if you feel uncomfortable. Utilise the NLP strategy of ‘submodalities’ – this is fully explained in the video. Do some research on other people’s embarrassing stories – chances are they’re[…]

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Building Trust & Communication with Young People

When you are using counselling or CBT you must make sure that you are creating the best possible environment and circumstances for young people. In my therapy clinic, when I meet families for the first time, they might talk about different sorts of challenges that they’re having with[…]

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The Beetle in Your Shoe: Parents and Professionals

Sometimes we know what the problem is but are just too tired or distracted by other things to be able to do anything much about it. The problem with putting things off (and hoping eventually they’ll just sort themselves out) is that it is costing you more energy[…]

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Embracing Good Mental Health in Children & Young People

Have you ever wondered if mental health problems could be, in some way, contagious?     I’m sure you have noticed that your own possibly negative or even dysfunctional psychological state could be picked up from the young people that you interact with and at times it’s like a[…]

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How to Stop Hatin’: Children and Young People

Do you have an enemy, a frenemy or a sibling you constantly compete with? If so this video is for you! Whilst I can’t teach you how to become best buddies, I have got some helpful tactic to reduce the amount of tension between you and prevent the[…]

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The label of ‘Slow Learning’

I want to talk to you today about the label of slow learning. For some children, they do not keep up with their peers in aspect of their development and those children may be referred to as a slower learner or they may be given some other more[…]

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