Children’s Counselling and Psychotherapy

Holistic Therapy for Your Child’s Wellbeing

At Harley Row Clinic, we understand the complex emotional needs children and young people have as they grow. We can provide counselling and psychotherapy tailored to your child’s unique needs. Our compassionate mental health professionals employ proven techniques to help your child feel understood, overcome challenges, and thrive.

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Holistic Support for Your Child’s Wellbeing

Counselling and psychotherapy are both talking therapies that involve exploring thoughts, emotions and experiences. Talking therapy can help your child to make sense of their world, and finding coping methods when they face life's difficulties.

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At Harley Row Clinic, the team understands the hardest step is recognising when it is time to ask for help by making that first call – whether for yourself, or for your child. It can be worrying and stressful as a caregiver to see your child struggling and can leave you wondering if you're doing something wrong or failing in your role. Therapy may feel unusual, but the reality is that lots of children and young people attend therapy sessions, for a variety of reasons.

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Equally, a child’s diagnosis or mental health treatment can be overwhelming and emotionally taxing on parents, guardians, and other family members. As part of the team’s duty of care coaching, counselling, group therapy, guidance and support is available to caregivers, to help them manage the child’s diagnosis, while maintaining their own wellbeing. At Harley Row Clinic, we work collaboratively with you to think about what's going on and how you can support your child.

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How does therapy work?

In your first session, one of our therapists will meet with you and your child to talk. The therapist will ask questions and listen, to learn more about your child and to understand their problems. The therapist will explain how they can help you and your child.

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After that, your child or young person will go to more therapy sessions. At these sessions, they may speak to their therapist to express and explore their feelings, as well as be listened to and acknowledged. They may do activities to learn about feelings and coping skills, such as drawing or playing.

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Therapists can be trained in various methods, therapies or ‘modalities,’ and they may practise in a variety of ways with patients. Harley Row Clinic consists of over 12 clinicians, each brought into the team because of their unique specialities and disciplines. We can help you find the right counsellor or child psychotherapist for your family. We have trained professionals who have expertise in a variety of backgrounds:

· Compassionate Inquiry to support a range of conditions

· Integrated Therapeutic approach

· Play and creative arts therapy sessions

· Neurodevelopmental therapy

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Our Three-fold Approach

Talking therapies fall under the psychological intervention pathway, and we encourage a threefold treatment path for comprehensive mental health support.

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Alongside psychological intervention and medication if appropriate, functional medicine seeks to identify the underlying cause of health issues, instead of just a focus on symptoms. The team at Harley Row Clinic use a range of diagnostic tools and assessments to explore genetic, biochemical, and environmental factors that may all contribute to a patient’s condition.

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This unique three-principal method, which has been inspired by various schools of thought and experience, focuses on the whole body, and treating the root cause of a condition, not just the symptoms.

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The results of tending to your inner life through counselling or psychotherapy services, alongside tending to the physical body through functional medicine practises, can have profound results. We strive to help your child gain self-confidence, emotional tools, and meaningful connections. We teach life-long skills to support healthy development.