Reflective Parenting

Working with children is crucial that parents / carers are involved to maximise the benefits to the child and wider family system.

I offer two options which I explore with parents during intake of their child, the first focuses on regular check ins and discussions on the child’s presentation and progress in the therapy. The second offer supports the parents/carers to explore strategies, their own feelings and encourages the perspective of the child’s inner world to help strengthen the relationships.

We meet to discuss the main challenges and positives in your relationship with your child, and together we identify specific areas which you hope to strengthen.

Discovery Meeting

These sessions last 50 mins and are held either in person or online. We review regularly how long we each feel this needs to continue for, sometimes a couple of weeks, months or longer term depending on circumstances.

Weekly, Fortnightly or Monthly sessions

The parent/carer work is aimed to further extend and support the understanding of the child’s needs and is not a space to discuss what happens in the child’s therapy in detail. Likewise, what takes place in reflective parenting sessions, does not become shared back to the child. Both spaces complement but do not merge with each other.

Complimentary Support, Whilst Separate To Your Child’s Therapy

What’s included

What is it?

It isn’t a course, it’s a tailored and personalised additional support that sits with the parents/carers away from your child’s sessions, to help you make sense of what is happening in the relationship, what is being evoked in you and how to move forward as a family.

This isn’t family therapy, it is a reflective space to help you feel more confident in your parenting approach and relationship with yourself and your child.

We look at what is going on beneath the surface, for all of you, in order to find practical strategies and improve the communication and awareness of the emotional and behavioural responses going on.

Often this work takes place alongside the individual support your child is receiving with me, but it can also happen completely on its own as a standalone piece of work with the parents if this is more suitable.

This may suit you if you …

  • Sometimes, schools may arrange a ‘Team Around the Child’ meeting, bringing together parents, carers and professionals involved in your child's care to share concerns, explore their needs and agree on how best to support them.

    I'm happy to attend and contribute to these meetings, where appropriate, at a time and frequency agreed with you. This can help ensure that the support your child receives in therapy is considered alongside what's happening at home and school, while respecting their privacy and confidentiality.

  • If your child finds a particular strategy or technique helpful during therapy, we can explore ways to bring this into everyday life. With your child's agreement, I can share these approaches with you so that you can continue supporting them at home, helping to build on the work we're doing together in sessions.

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