Anxiety

Support students experiencing anxiety around exams.

Most of us experience this at one time or another, in our lives. It varies from uneasiness to the onset of a panic attack. Monitoring this and talking about your experiencing can assist in overcoming this condition.

Depression

Is experienced differently by everyone, the longer it is left to escalate, without intervention, the greater the risk of your mental health significantly deteriorating.

ACES / Child Trauma

Adverse Childhood Experiences can impact both the body and brain. This trauma, if not addressed, can continue to affect our mental health throughout our adult lives.

Challenging Behaviours in Children

Children of all ages can behave in ways that we, as adults may not understand. Often negative behaviours may come about due to children being overwhelmed with their experiences, sometimes this can be due to life experiences and sometimes, undiagnosed medical conditions (ADHD, autism etc). Either way it is often due to an inability to manage emotions. With patience and discussion they are able to reflect on managing techniques which will assist them.

I support students to re-access school by addressing barriers to attendance and working in a solution focussed way to move through these.

Self-Esteem

Talking through experiences and emotional connections can offer periods of self-reflection that enable us to think differently, in relation to life choices and whom we surround ourselves with. In turn, this can help us to feel empowered and often this improves self-esteem.

Grief

This encompasses the experience of loss in any form. Whether it be the passing of someone we know, a person moving away, or any significant life changes that affect us. The most obvious being during Covid with the loss of much of our freedom and way of living. Any loss can be profound and debilitating.

Domestic Abuse

Abuse can take many forms and often, behaviours the victims are subjected to is normalised by the abuser. (Narcissistic Personality Disorder and gaslighting) This can severely impact self-esteem and the victims sense of self. It can cause confusion and a range of mental health complications. Talking through your experience can assist in processing the same and figuring out your own safety plan, from your frame of reference.

PTSD

This can occur after we experience a traumatic life event. Trauma can vary from person to person. It can lead to people experiencing intrusive thoughts or triggering flashbacks of the event. Often leading to an intense physical response to the same as though re-experiencing the event, which can be profoundly debilitating.