by Kirrilie | Oct 21, 2019 | Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress
Click below to download the handout from the Child Mental and Emotional Health for Professionals Seminar: Handout Child Mental Emotional Health Professionals
by Kirrilie | Jul 1, 2019 | Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
Many years ago I was mid session with a bright and engaging 5 year old when he looked me in the eyes and tearfully said the following: “I’m so ugly. That’s why no-one wants to play with me”. As an early career psychologist working with children at...
by Kirrilie | Dec 3, 2018 | Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
In Australia, around 10% of children have a physical, cognitive or mental disability or disorder. This means as professionals who work with children it is very likely we will have worked with hundreds of children/adolescents with: a speech or language disorder or...
by Kirrilie | Sep 25, 2018 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
Take a moment to remember a time in the last few days in which you felt stressed, frustrated or worried. Reflect for a moment on your body in that moment. Your heart rate had sped up a little, you were breathing a little quicker, your body temperature rose slightly...
by Kirrilie | Mar 20, 2018 | Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
If you ask parents what they most want for their child, many will say something like this: “I just want my child to be happy”. Whilst most of them know, at a logical level, that they can’t make this happen, seeing their children frequently or deeply sad, is very...
by Monique | Jun 25, 2018 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Professional
12 year old Tyler* and his mum came to visit us concerned about something they called his “twitch”. To show me what they were talking about, they bought along an iphone video of Tyler playing his xbox while this twitch was happening. Basically Tyler’s “twitch”...
