Children & Adolescents
Therapy for children and young people.
Young people do not always have words for what is difficult. Distress is often communicated through behaviour, relationships, play, avoidance, anxiety, anger or changes in day-to-day functioning.
How difficulties present
A child who is struggling may not say so. Parents more often notice a change: sleep or appetite shifting, reluctance to attend school, withdrawal from friends, irritability or anger that seems disproportionate, tearfulness, regression, or a drop in concentration and functioning.
These are meaningful communications rather than misbehaviour. Therapy offers a space where they can be understood — with the young person, not simply about them.
Experience and background
Kimouy has significant experience supporting children and adolescents, including young people referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She holds a PG Dip in CBT for Children & Adolescents alongside her training as an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, and is a qualified Social Worker — a background that informs careful attention to safeguarding and context.
How the work is arranged
An initial conversation with a parent or guardian establishes the concerns and what might help. This is usually followed by an assessment, and then by an agreed plan for the work, including the frequency of sessions, review points and how parents will be kept appropriately informed.
Confidentiality for young people is discussed openly at the outset, including the circumstances in which information would need to be shared to keep someone safe.
Principles
How the work is held.
Developmentally sensitive
The way a five-year-old, an eleven-year-old and a sixteen-year-old make sense of experience differs profoundly. The work is shaped to developmental stage, not simply to age.
Beyond words alone
Creative media, play, story, image and sandtray can allow a young person to express what cannot yet be spoken, and to do so at a tolerable distance.
Working alongside parents
Parents and carers are important partners. Appropriate contact is agreed at the outset, alongside a clear understanding of the young person's confidentiality.
Coordinated where helpful
With consent, liaison with schools, GPs or other professionals can be arranged where this would support the young person's care.
Soul Care Therapy
Enquiring about a young person.
Parents, guardians and responsible adults are welcome to make a confidential enquiry to discuss whether therapy might be helpful.
Soul Care Therapy is not an emergency or crisis response service and does not provide out-of-hours or 24-hour support. If you need urgent help, please contact your GP, NHS 111, or the emergency services on 999.