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counselling for children and young people

Joanne has specialised training, expertised experience and is

Certified (COSCA Validated) in:

* Non-directive play-therapy > 4

* Counselling Children and Young people (4-18)

* Emotional-literacy (4-18)

Joanne has also worked with children and young people for over 25 years, has developed expertised talking skills and created different ways to offer therapeutic counselling and talking or play connection to young people aged 4 to 18 years old, with effective rapidity.

Q. What is counselling or talking therapy?

A. It should be:

listening and talking

safe
calm
helpful
empowering

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Being a young person is not always easy and sometimes things can be difficult, maybe even very difficult. When lots of difficult things pile on top of each other, it can feel just too much. Many children are going to counselling to help them with difficult stuff like:

school
school-work
playing sports
home
arguments with friends
trouble getting on with brothers and sisters
parents
social media
bullying
loss of friends
loss
parental illness
parents separating
death of parent
abuse
feeling like they want to die

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Q. How can counselling help?

A. Joanne might help you by:

listening to what you want to talk about
understanding what is difficult
seeing the difficult things in your way
using different ways to help you like:

play
listening and talking
hard rocks
emotions work
talking chairs
drawing pictures
playing cards

Q. What is confidentiality?

A. Counselling is confidential. This means whatever you tell Joanne she will not tell anyone, unless there is a safety problem. In counselling safety is very important and if Joanne thinks there is danger to you or someone else, she will talk to you and maybe need to ask someone to help. You can talk about anything in counselling, with anyone.