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We believe in helping and empowering you as parents to understand your children better.

Although we love our children unconditionally and want to do the best for them, in the current world of chaos and external pressures, sometimes love is not enough. Children need nurturing environments and validating adults to feel safe, secure and to grow up to be healthy and well balanced adults.

We have a very small but important part in your journey as a family.

Mental health problems and difficulties are not as uncommon as we think, 1 in 4 people seen in GP surgery have an underlying mental health condition.

It's a myth that children and teenagers don’t get depressed or develop a mental disorder. On the contrary, adolescence a time of change biologically and psychologically and a young person is actively trying to seek their “own identity” in this world.

In the current world of social media, information overload and busy family lives, it is not unusual for parents and other adults around children and teenagers to feel out of their depth and struggle to recognise difficulties as they arise and to support young people with mental health problems.

We don’t claim to have all the answers or solutions but we are here to help you understand your child or teenager better and to learn strategies to help them.