Anxiety Support

Following your Family Assessment & Clinical Treatment Plan, your child will begin a personalised programme of 1:1 therapy tailored to their individual strengths, needs, and treatment goals. Parent support sessions may also be included within the clinical plan, where appropriate, to help you understand and respond to your child’s needs, develop practical strategies for use at home, and support consistency and progress beyond the therapy sessions.

Who We Work With

Our Anxiety Support Can Be Particularly Helpful for Children & Young People Who Experience:

Frequent worries that are difficult to control
Social anxiety or fear of being judged by others
School anxiety, avoidance or difficulty attending
Separation anxiety and difficulty being away from parents
Fears, phobias or panic-like feelings
Perfectionism and fear of making mistakes
Overthinking and needing frequent reassurance
Physical symptoms such as stomach aches, headaches or feeling sick
Difficulty sleeping because of worries or racing thoughts
Avoiding activities, situations or experiences because they feel overwhelming
Anxiety associated with ADHD or neurodivergence
Low confidence and self-esteem

Anxiety can look very different from one child to another. While some children talk openly about their worries, others may become withdrawn, irritable, angry, controlling or reluctant to try new things. Understanding what is driving the anxiety is an important first step towards helping a young person feel more confident and in control.

Sometimes the most effective way to support a child is to support their parents alongside them. Where appropriate, your child's individual therapy can be combined with one of our parenting programmes, helping the whole family understand what's happening and work towards positive change together. This means the skills and progress developed in therapy can be supported at home too — creating meaningful, lasting change both inside and beyond the therapy room.

Our Approach

Helping Children Understand Anxiety

Anxiety can feel confusing and frightening, particularly when a child doesn't understand why their mind or body is reacting in a particular way. We help children and young people understand what anxiety is, recognise their individual triggers and notice the thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours that accompany it. Learning that anxiety is something they can understand and respond to — rather than something that simply happens to them — can be incredibly empowering.

Creative, Practical & Engaging Therapy

Children don't always find it easy to explain their worries through conversation alone. Our sessions are therefore interactive, creative and tailored to each child's age, personality and interests. Therapy may incorporate games, visual tools, creative exercises, therapeutic activities, emotional literacy work, relaxation and regulation strategies, and practical ways of working with anxious thoughts.

Where anxiety has led to avoidance, we can also help children gradually develop the confidence and coping skills they need to approach situations that have begun to feel difficult or overwhelming.

Supporting Parents Too

Anxiety rarely affects only the child. Parents can find themselves constantly reassuring, changing plans or avoiding situations in an attempt to prevent their child becoming distressed. Where appropriate, we work alongside parents to help them understand their child's anxiety and respond in ways that are supportive without unintentionally allowing anxiety to take control of family life.

The aim is not to remove every worry. It is to help your child discover that they can experience difficult feelings and still cope.

What Children & Young People Learn

Therapy gives children and young people both a greater understanding of their anxiety and practical skills they can use outside the therapy room.

They can learn to:

Recognise anxiety and understand why it happens
Identify their individual triggers and early warning signs
Understand anxious thoughts and thinking patterns
Recognise how anxiety affects their body and behaviour
Develop practical strategies for calming and regulation
Respond differently to worries and anxious thoughts
Reduce avoidance and gradually face difficult situations
Rely less on reassurance from others
Communicate their feelings and needs more confidently
Develop greater resilience, independence and self-belief

Over time, the goal is for children and young people to feel more confident in their ability to cope, allowing anxiety to take up less space in school, friendships, family life and everyday experiences.

Book a Free Consultation

You do not have to manage this alone. If you're ready to better understand your child's behaviour and begin creating positive change at home, book a free 15-minute consultation today.

Take the first step towards a calmer, more connected family life today. Contact our team to arrange your consultation.