Children’s Counselling and Psychotherapy
At Harley Row Clinic, we understand the complex emotional needs children and young people have as they grow. We can provide counselling and psychotherapy tailored to your child’s unique needs. Our compassionate mental health professionals can employ proven techniques to help your child feel understood, overcome challenges, and thrive.
Holistic Therapy for Your Child’s Wellbeing
At Harley Row Clinic, we understand the complex emotional needs children and young people have as they grow. We can provide counselling and psychotherapy tailored to your child’s unique needs. Our compassionate mental health professionals employ proven techniques to help your child feel understood, overcome challenges, and thrive.
Holistic Support for Your Child’s Wellbeing
Counselling and psychotherapy are both talking therapies that involve exploring thoughts, emotions and experiences. Talking therapy can help your child to make sense of their world, and finding coping methods when they face life's difficulties.
At Harley Row Clinic, the team understands the hardest step is recognising when it is time to ask for help by making that first call – whether for yourself, or for your child. It can be worrying and stressful as a caregiver to see your child struggling and can leave you wondering if you're doing something wrong or failing in your role. Therapy may feel unusual, but the reality is that lots of children and young people attend therapy sessions, for a variety of reasons.
Equally, a child’s diagnosis or mental health treatment can be overwhelming and emotionally taxing on parents, guardians, and other family members. As part of the team’s duty of care coaching, counselling, group therapy, guidance and support is available to caregivers, to help them manage the child’s diagnosis, while maintaining their own wellbeing. At Harley Row Clinic, we work collaboratively with you to think about what's going on and how you can support your child.
How does therapy work?
In your first session, one of our therapists will meet with you and your child to talk. The therapist will ask questions and listen, to learn more about your child and to understand their problems. The therapist will explain how they can help you and your child.
After that, your child or young person will go to more therapy sessions. At these sessions, they may speak to their therapist to express and explore their feelings, as well as be listened to and acknowledged. They may do activities to learn about feelings and coping skills, such as drawing or playing.
Therapists can be trained in various methods, therapies or ‘modalities,’ and they may practise in a variety of ways with patients. Harley Row Clinic consists of over 12 clinicians, each brought into the team because of their unique specialities and disciplines. We can help you find the right counsellor or child psychotherapist for your family. We have trained professionals who have expertise in a variety of backgrounds:
· Compassionate Inquiry to support a range of conditions
· Integrated Therapeutic approach
· Play and creative arts therapy sessions
· Neurodevelopmental therapy
Our Three-fold Approach
Talking therapies fall under the psychological intervention pathway, and we encourage a threefold treatment path for comprehensive mental health support.
Alongside psychological intervention and medication if appropriate, functional medicine seeks to identify the underlying cause of health issues, instead of just a focus on symptoms. The team at Harley Row Clinic use a range of diagnostic tools and assessments to explore genetic, biochemical, and environmental factors that may all contribute to a patient’s condition.
This unique three-principal method, which has been inspired by various schools of thought and experience, focuses on the whole body, and treating the root cause of a condition, not just the symptoms.
The results of tending to your inner life through counselling or psychotherapy services, alongside tending to the physical body through functional medicine practises, can have profound results. We strive to help your child gain self-confidence, emotional tools, and meaningful connections. We teach life-long skills to support healthy development.
What Are The Symptoms of
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Your child does not need to have a mental health diagnosis to undertake private holistic therapy, or counselling. Holistic therapy can help with any form of emotional distress or discomfort, including:
· Anger
· Anxiety, including climate, health and social anxiety
· Bereavement, loss, and grief
· Bullying
· Chronic illness and health problems
· Loneliness and feelings of isolation
· Low self-esteem
· Phobias
· Problems at school
· Problems at home
· Difficulties in relationships
· Self-harm
· Stress
· Suicidal feelings
Counselling, talk therapy or psychotherapy can help your child or young person to understand and cope with the following mental health diagnoses:
· ADHD
· Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
· Depression
· Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
· Eating disorders
· Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
· Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
What Are The Benefits of
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Looking to get help and move forward?
Our team specialises in private help for children and young patients. We are here to support you in taking that first step towards receiving help. Please get in touch.
Frequently asked questions
Haven't found the answer you were looking for? Perhaps our FAQ's could help. If you're still needing help, please get in touch.
What other treatments do you have available for children?
We have a wide range of therapies avalible for children and young adults, vist our therapies page to find out more.
How is therapy different for children and teenagers?
Therapy is taiored to your child's or young person's individual condition and communication needs. For example, play-based therapy might be more appropriate for some children than talking therapy.
How can parents and caregivers help?
We offer family and couples therapy, to support your own wellbeing as well as your child's. We also have specific support to help you make the most of your child's treatment., please get in touch to find out more.
Unsure about the path ahead?
Wherever your family is on your mental health journey, call one of our team to discuss your next steps.
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