Child & Adolescent Counselling

Parents and caregivers often bring their child to therapy for emotional, social, and behavioural support. Working with children often involves working with their caregivers and their families to ensure sustainable therapeutic outcomes.

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There are many benefits of counselling for children and their families. Therapy can assist parents and children to learn new skills and ways to communicate in the family, build emotional regulation, and facilitate positive changes in the brain within a safe expressive environment.

Rebecca engages you as the parent to be a 'co-therapist' to support your child. Working with parents is a wonderful way to develop a sense of safety, self compassion, and self-esteem in our children.

Treehouse Child and Perinatal Services offers support to children, parents and families with concerns relating (but not limited to),

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  • Behavioural challenges

  • Anxiety and separation anxiety

  • School refusal

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  • Social skills / bullying concerns

  • Sleep difficulties / nightmares

  • Trauma

  • Post traumatic stress disorder

  • Bed wetting and soiling

  • Family separation

  • Anger and aggression

  • Attachment and relationship difficulties

  • Depression

  • Sensory disorders

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Oppositional Defiance Disorder

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

  • Selective Mutism

Once a parent intake is completed, Rebecca will meet with you and your child to explore creating a therapeutic plan and tailor one-on-one therapy counselling sessions to work through their concerns and learn effective strategies and tools. Rebecca works closely with you as the parent to provide feedback on how your child is going in therapy, and will also teach you strategies learned in sessions so that skills can be translated from the counselling context to home and school.

Treehouse Child and Perinatal Services provides a child friendly space, which includes access to play and art materials to effectively engage children and young people in therapy. Rebecca has extensive training and experience working with children and families using focused psychological frameworks and honoring a child’s development through the therapeutic use of play.