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If you’re a professional- either therapist, social worker or teacher we have workshops for you, please visit the relevant page on our website.
Are you a parent, carer, close relative or friend of a young person who is struggling with their mental health?
Do you hate to see them struggle but just don’t know what to do to help them?
We get it. It can be really hard to know what to do and how to support them and very distressing to witness the struggle and to feel helpless. We also understand that parents aren’t always the people our children want to talk to. For a variety of different reasons children and young people don’t always want to talk to the adults in their life. It’s no reflection on you if that’s the case and you’re the parent. If you’ve been through a challenging time as a family for example it’s natural that a child may try to cope with their feelings on their own. But this is often where anxiety, self-harm and eating issues come into play. It’s more common than you may realise.
We work with children and young people all the time as they work through some of the struggles they are facing today. Children these days are growing up in a very different world with more pressures on them than ever before. Lisa is our young person practitioner and she can work with your child or young person on building self-esteem, emotion regulation and understanding emotions. When children and young people learn to tolerate and verbalise what they are feeling and they are met with support and understanding trust develops and children can begin to settle.
We also support parents of children and young people struggling with mental health, through groups and sessions where parents and carers can learn about the causes of mental issues in young people and crucially how they can best support them. The single best way to support your child or young person is to work on your own mental health. We can help you do that. Get to know your own triggers, learn to understand your own feelings and learn to communicate with your young person and encourage them to talk to you. Kids love it when they realise we are working through things as well and for some people this can be a lovely way of connecting and strengthening interpersonal relationships.
If you or a young person or child in your care would find it helpful to talk to someone skilled and experienced, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. In these cases, time is of the essence and the sooner your child gets support the better. There isn’t the perfect time to reach out and we are all different but when left, mental health issues generally get worse rather than better and young people have so much life to live, we want to help you get them back on track.
Self-refer today by emailing talktodialogues@gmail.com
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