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Individual and Family Therapy
At Beech Tree Family Consultants we offer support for a number of challenges:
Difficult childhood behaviours such as...
Tantrums, aggression (biting, hitting, kicking, ‘hugging too hard’, shouting),
Anxiety and worries, confidence issues
attachment issues and sibling rivalry.
Childhood traumas and developmental trauma
Social and friendship difficulties, Stress
Healthy relationships, teenagers and pornography.
Going missing, keeping safe.
Understanding the teenage brain
Setting boundaries with your teenager, sexual identity,
Grooming and Exploitation
Sexual abuse/violence, grooming, exploitation.
Relationship breakdowns
Working together....
It is incredibly difficult, as a parent to see our children struggling with life and our natural inclination is to 'fix' the problem as quickly as possible. But when we focus on 'fixing' we stop listening, when we stop listening, we stop accepting our children for who they are. When we stop accepting them for who they are we stop ‘hearing them’ and as a result, they start to feel alone, scared and unsupported. The communication has broken down.
When families have 'gone off track' this is often due to a break down in communication resulting in the connection, or relationship between the family members becoming 'stuck'. We then lose the ability to be curious about what is going on for our child and what they are trying to communicate about their internal world through their behaviour.
Working together, Katie will help the family to explore the challenges they are facing, to be curious about what is going on, to accept each individual for who they are, to empathise with the difficulties that everyone is facing and will encourage playfulness where appropriate, to help regulate what can otherwise be a challenging experience.
For a child to get the best support possible with their emotions, their parents need to know what it is they need to be supporting them with and have some ideas on how to do this. Katie, therefore works with parent and child in the sessions so that the parents can hear, first hand, what it is that the child is struggling with and can observe different ways to give them the support that they need.
Approach...
Initially Katie works solely with the parents, for you to start developing an alliance and creating 'a therapeutic team', before moving on and introducing the child to the sessions.
Where appropriate and where we are all in agreement, Katie is happy to have one to one sessions with your child.
You are the expert on your child and Katie's role is to become part of your team to support your child. As such, Katie draws on her professional knowledge and 'toolbox' of techniques for you to try out and to find out what works best for your child and your family.
