The transition from primary to secondary school, from childhood to adolescence, is often a highly anxiety provoking time for young people and their parents. It is a time requiring adjustment to both greater academic demands as well as social and emotional challenges and choices. This can lead to the emergence of emotional and mental health difficulties that require expertise in order to help the young person maximise their academic potential and ensure social and emotional well-being.

I work with the young person and their family to understand and make sense of these new challenges. Through evidence based intervention I provide resilience and strategies to enable more robust ways of dealing with problems. Working together with the young person will enable them to develop resources with which to confidently face this demanding time in their young lives.

Common presenting difficulties for teens:

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
• Panic attacks.
• Phobias.
• Social anxiety.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• Motivational difficulties.
• Depression.
• Relationship difficulties.