It may help to know some common problems we encounter in our service. These include:

• Difficulties in a baby’s first year such as feeding or sleeping problems, or relationship difficulties
• Difficulties with preschoolers such as challenging behaviour, sleeping/settling, tantrums, eating, managing routines, setting boundaries, and relationship issues.
• Emotional difficulties in older children, such as poor confidence and self-esteem, anxiety, fears and phobias, panic attacks, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, eating issues, peer relationship difficulties, selective mutism, and school refusal.
• Behavioural issues in all children such as managing bedtimes, sleeping, eating, toileting/soiling and bed wetting difficulties, and general challenging behaviour.
• Issues arising from transitions such as starting school, moving to secondary school, divorce, separation, remarriage, bereavement, loss, or illness in the family.
• Difficulties arising from a new illness or managing health difficulties like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
• Social and relationship issues such as troubled relationships within the family, between siblings or parents, adjustment to a new baby, bullying, difficulties with friends at school.