Here are some ideas of how to get to know your kids over the summer holidays, learn about their concerns, listen with an open and curious non-judging mind and connect at a deper level.

Learn how to use art to help children and teens unblock trapped emotions such as anxiety, anger, pain and grief.

Nature can be an active partner in the therapy process as we use the sounds, textures, colours and light patterns as metaphor for feelings. Being outdoors after a day at school, a long car journey or a stressful situation, can feel 'held' and not judged or feel words are required. Walking together side by side, where movement can feel relaxing and empowering, where you can sit on a log to chat, tap or just 'be', can break through any client therapist relationship and enable

Last year I enjoyed Katherine May’s book about the restorative power of Winter and whilst I would love to quote so much from it, this quote resonated with me this winter. “We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.” ― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times As you may have read in my last post, I lost my mum in February. She was such a joy and despite the