Counselling and psychotherapy for children and families
Focusing on emotional health and wellbeing, I work with a wide range of age groups - from parents and toddlers to primary school children and adolescents. I also work with couples and individuals around parenting issues. Below are just some of the ways I work with different age groups and the types of difficulties I help with:
Working with Children
Psychotherapy or counselling with a child involves building a relationship through talking, play or the use of art materials. I provide a space to help your child express themselves, and to help resolve issues concerning them. It is special time to think about life, to talk about growing up, about what happens at school, with friends and about what it is like to be them.
Very often when children are helped by a skilled practitioner to find ways to make their feelings understood, their symptoms subside.
Sometimes deeper changes are needed and the work can take longer to help a child grow, heal or find themselves.
Working with Adolescents
Adolescence is a time of enormous neurological, physical and emotional change. It can be quite overwhelming. Therapy for an adolescent can help with anxieties that are arresting emotional growth and disrupting the pleasure in relationships. It can be a steadying influence in the tumult of adolescent challenges, focusing often on identity - who you are and who you want to be.
Working with Parents
I provide both parent-child psychotherapy and parenting sessions to help guide parents with young children, often through play to better understand their relationship with their child and the needs of their child.
Issues I work with:
Abuse
Phobias
Self-harm
Separation anxiety
Selective mutism
Obsessive problems
Difficulty parenting a child
Difficulty socialising and interacting
Trauma
Difficulties at school
Birth trauma
Low self-esteem and identity issues
Aggressive behaviour and anger
ADHD
Autism and aspergers
Divorce and separation
Difficulties around issues to do with adoption
Bereavement
Eating issues
Private Practice: Richmond, London
julietlyons@hotmail.com
Tel: 07969564997