Psychological Therapy

Other services that might be helpful:

Part of The Ashwood Practice Child and Family Services

Psychological therapy for children and adolescents is often useful where young people are feeling worried, unhappy, having unhelpful thoughts or behaving in a way that causes them harm.

Often the behaviour of young people can cause a great deal of concern for those around them. Sometimes children and young people need some support to help with adjusting to changes in their lives, like divorce or separation or serious ill health.

We have child friendly rooms equipped with toys and games. We use approaches appropriate to the young person's developmental level to help children and young people build on strengths and so devise strategies and skills for coping at home and at school.

The developmental difficulties service can be useful if you feel such issues may be contributing to the picture School visits can be arranged if necessary Family Therapy for looking at general areas of family functioning Family Therapy for adolescents with Eating Disorders

The Ashwood Practice, part of the Baker Duncan Partnership, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey Specialist Private Assessment and Treatment Services across the whole spectrum of psychological/mental health conditions and childhood developmental problems, including Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and OCD. We offer a continuing service throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The clinical problems we commonly encounter include depression, deliberate self-harm, anxiety - in all its forms, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and adjustments reactions in individuals and families in relation to traumatic seperation (including bereavement of parents, children and siblings) or other family crises such as divorce and domestic/family violence.

We have developed specialist expertise in assisting families who have adopted children with attachment problems and we have also set up a therapeutic re-parenting scheme to support foster-carers who are struggling with very challenging behaviour in younger children.