Social, emotional and mental health support
For when challenges with emotions and mood are affecting our lives, our relationships, and our daily activities
Difficulties understanding what's going on in our brains and bodies can be scary, confusing and frustrating. When we don't understand why we feel the way we do, or why our feelings make us lose control over our words and behaviour, it can affect how we feel on a daily basis, not to mention our relationships and doing the things that are important to us.
Being a young person, especially a teen, can be an amazing, wonderful time, and it can also be disorientating and isolating. And often, it can be both.
My aim as a therapist supporting young people, is to help them understand what is going on for them, and help them take ownership of their experience, and to build a toolkit of tools and resources to draw upon whenever they need them, now and for the rest of their lives, to navigate life's challenges, and live a full and meaningful life.
Assessment options
All Occupational Therapy starts with an assessment, for the therapist to get a good overview of what's going on for you, and your goals and needs.
This may look like:
Consultation Assessment - £195 :
if much of the information can be gathered from the person (recommended for 12+ years old, and adult).
Comprehensive Assessment - £550 :
if for a younger child and/or if a full assessment report will be needed.
Enhanced Assessment - £695:
if the assessment and report is needed to contribute to an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Individual support
Regardless of the need and piece of work, session packages will follow the same format:
At the assessment stage, a suggested block of sessions will be recommended to achieve the work identified.
This number may change depending on the progress within sessions - sometimes fewer sessions are needed, sometimes more.
Each block of sessions will be different depending on the person's needs, but there will be common themes running through each one, which are:
What makes me 'me'
My life now - strengths, challenges, goals
My personal toolkit and plan
Sessions are weekly or, sometimes, fortnightly.
They allow for up to an hour with the individual, with up to 15 minutes for discussion or feedback to the parent/carer if appropriate.
Sessions are £95, inclusive of all additional resources, work and support outside of the sessions.
Family support
Especially when working with young people, the adults around them count as a huge part of their support network, and as such it is important that they are supported too.
This is exactly the same regardless of whether the young person is with their birth family, or looked after (adopted or in foster care).
I do this by offering two consultations with the parent/carer, as well as giving them access to my growing series of audios for parents of teenagers on a range of issues from normal teenage development to issues such as anxiety, along with a series on supporting the parent to reflect and look after themselves as well as possible too.
When I work with a young person, all of this is included in the session price and is not extra.
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