Counselling with Aileen

The primary aim of all my counselling work with children and teenagers is to increase their emotional resilience and regulation, help them become more self-accepting and self-controlling, and ultimately to improve their views of themselves and their relationships with important people in their lives.

I can help make the transitionary phase from young person to adult, which can be incredibly distressing for young people and families, easier, safer and more positive, by strengthening family relationships and easing the way forward. To achieve this end, I use a variety of approaches, as shown in the images below.

I have developed my own approach to counselling children and young people. This builds on evidence-based theory and current best practice approaches such as attachment theory, enabling me to give both parents, children and young people the tools needed to effectively address the difficulties being experienced. See attached leaflet for further details.

Over a number of years I have realised that most parents really want to know how they can help, and be involved in the therapy process, rather than just relying on someone else to ‘fix things’.  With this in mind I have also created many leaflets with guidance for both parents and teens/children, on a wide range of issues from OCD, bullying, anger issues etc