Who Courtney helps

Common problems that Courtney’s clients experience:

Preschool and primary school aged Children:
– bullying behaviour at school
– lots of big feelings
– lots of worries, fears and anxieties (general or specific)
– feeling left out
– not fitting in or not making friends easily
– parents who are separating or separated
– living between two or more houses
– feeling worried about being separate from their parent(s)
– managing court ordered contact with parent who has perpetrated family violence
– having a parent with a chronic illness or other condition
– not doing as well as they could at school academically
– changing schools or school can’t (also called school refusal)
– moving country or moving house
– emotional withdrawal
– difficulties with expressing themselves and advocating for their needs
– grief and loss
– illnesses and isolation

Parents, carers and grown ups
– children experiencing frequent emotional dysregulation, meltdowns or tantrums
– children not able to follow instructions from adults
– children who have difficulties due to trauma and/or neurodevelopmental conditions
– children refusing to go to school (school can’t) or finding it hard to stay at school
– who find it hard to understand their child’s challenging behaviour or needs
– who are managing their own abuse/trauma/triggers/ill health alongside their child’s concerns
– who feel guilt, blame and shame around their own parenting capacity
– who have an interest in therapeutic parenting but can find it hard to stick to a parenting method
– who want to understand how children’s development is impacted by trauma

How Can Counselling and Psychotherapy help? PDF from PACFA