Types of Therapy offered to Kids, Tweens & Teens
Attachment Focus Therapy
This child & family approach is designed to heal the long-term effects of early childhood trauma. Practitioners incorporate caregiver narratives as a tool to help address and repair the unmet needs of the child or young person.
CBT
This is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think, feel and behave. It’s most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression, but can be useful for other mental and physical health problems.
Counselling
Counselling provides a confidential and supportive space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences at your own pace. It’s a place where you can feel heard and understood, where you can talk freely, reflect, and begin to make sense of what you’re going through.
Play Therapy
Play Therapy uses a variety of creative arts and play techniques to explore psychological and emotional distress that might be contributing to behavioural difficulties and /or barriers to connections / relationships / education / wellbeing.
Art Therapy
This is a form of expressive therapy that uses the creative process of making art to improve a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Expressing yourself artistically can help to resolve issues as well as develop and manage behaviours and feelings, reduce stress, and improve self-esteem and awareness.
Music Therapy
This uses music to help people achieve therapeutic goals through the development of the music and the therapeutic relationship. It employs a variety of activities, such as listening to melodies, playing an instrument, drumming, writing songs, and guided imagery. Music therapy can also encompass talking therapy.
Drama Therapy
Drama therapy is a type of creative arts therapy that uses theatre techniques such as role play, storytelling, improvisation, movement and performance as tools for emotional expression and self-exploration.
Integrative Psychotherapy
Integrative Psychotherapy is an approach that combines different modalities and techniques in order to adapt the intervention to the needs of each individual. It helps clients to make connections between their past and their present and encourages self awareness, emotional regulation and resilience.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, early childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours and panic disorders.
Dance and Movement Therapy
Dance Movement Psychotherapy is a form of somatic and creative psychotherapy enabling communication through dance, movement, music and drama. This can facilitate building relationships with self and others.