Emotional & Behavioural Therapy
When it comes to behavioural and emotional difficulties, the earlier the support and intervention the better the outcome is likely to be. From learning how to respond to a child’s big emotions, to fostering healthy social skills and learning how to defuse aggressive behaviour, our clinicians are here to support your family with practical, tailored strategies.
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All kids can struggle with emotions and behaviours from time-to-time. But some children and teens may experience extremely challenging emotions and behaviours that can lead to unhelpful ways of coping and even family conflict.
In therapy, the key behavioural and emotional difficulties we tackle include:
- Friendship and relationship problems
- Anxiety, worries and fears
- Defiance and oppositional behaviour (such as arguing)
- Low self-esteem, low mood, and loneliness
- Aggression and violence
- OCD (such as excessive washing, checking, and worrying etc.)
- Separation anxiety
- Self-harming behaviours
- Perfectionism
Our approach
No two sessions look the same when it comes to therapy for emotional and behavioural difficulties. That’s why we individualise our approach to meet your child’s needs, your family dynamics and your desired outcomes — keeping environmental stressors in mind, too.
No matter what factors or problems are contributing to your child’s distress, we’ll ensure we find the appropriate strategies to support you, your child, and their teachers toward better days.
While every session looks different, our approach to helping with emotional and behavioural difficulties involves:
- Helping kids understand their their own needs, as well as finding ways to communicate this effectively
- Arming parents with strategies to support their child to be resilient and learn helpful ways of thinking and acting
Integrative support
While every session looks different, our approach to supporting kids and families with emotional and behavioural challenges leverages:
- Understanding core emotional needs
- Family Systems Therapy
- Parenting Support
- Collaborating with schools/teachers
- Strengths-based therapies
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapies
- EMDR for kids
- Schema Therapy for Children & Adolescents
How we’ll monitor your child’s progress
It’s important to us that you feel like your child is moving forward in therapy. This is why we make sure that we have conversations about whether the therapy is working or not. This process of getting your feedback can help your therapist adjust their approach to meet your child’s needs better.
To keep your child moving forward, we’ll use a range of methods to track their progress, such as:
- We’ll regularly check-in on your child’s wellbeing using digital measures
- We’ll use verbal check-ins to reflect on progress with specific behaviours
- We’ll leverage standardised questionnaires at the beginning and end of intervention
- We’ll encourage you to sit in on some sessions to ensure you’re part of the therapy process
- For NDIS clients, we’ll use standardised reporting procedures to ensure we’re working towards your child’s NDIS goals
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Complete this brief Online Intake Questionnaire (2 mins) to speed up the process for booking your initial appointment at Marsden Health. We will contact you as soon as it’s complete.