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Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
WHAT IS CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY
"Change occurs not through insight alone, but through meaningful interactions within the the therapeutic relationship"
- Allen Schore
A deeper space for understanding and healing.
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is a specialised therapeutic process that supports children and young people in understanding and working through emotional, relational and behavioural difficulties.
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It offers a developmentally attuned, clinically grounded space where a child or teenager can explore their inner world at a deeper level, engaging with unconscious processes, patterns of relating and early experiences.
"Every child and young person deserves a space where they feel truly seen, heard and understood - where healing can happen at their own pace."
SAFE STEPS THERAPISTS
SAFE STEPS THERAPISTS
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Practioners trained to IAPTP standards integrate play-based
methods within a robust therapeutic framework that is grounded in clinical training, ethical practice and supervision
HOW IT WORKS
Supporting your child at a deeper level
Psychotherapy helps young people make sense of experiences that may be stored unconsciously or expressed through behaviour - supporting the development of emotional regulation, resilience, self-awareness and healthier patterns of relating.
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Child and adolescent psychotherapy is particularly well suited to children and adolescents who have lived through complex trauma, abuse, or significant disruptions in care, and who require a deeper, more specialised therapeutic approach.
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We use creative and play based mediums to help children and young people express themselves and explore their inner world in a safe and developmentally appropriate way.
THE BENEFITS
How Psychotherapy helps your child
Emotional Regulation
Supports children in understanding and managing overwhelming feelings, by supporting the nervous system to re-learn safety. To allow co-regulation and connection and to support the child to move toward building mastery of their interior worlds.
Stronger Relationships
Supports healthier ways of relating to others by working through deeper emotional and relational patterns.
Trauma and Attachment Recovery
Gives children a developmentally appropriate and safe way to express and move through complex feelings and experiences stored in the body, heart and soul. Supports children to move through past hurts and to heal and grow.
Self-Understanding
Encourages deep, meaningful change that supports the building of a solid sense of self.
Resilience
As the child/young person begins to move through past hurts, resilience is built, not from the mind but from deep within. Confidence, self esteem, agency, will and personal power all come back online equipping the child to be free to be themselves in the world.
Healing at the Root
Works with the root causes of distress, often stored beyond conscious awareness.