Creating Kids Who Can

Welcome to our blog where award-winning child therapist, Frances Weston, shares advice for parents. Its aim is to help parents help their children manage and express difficult feelings and cope with life's challenges well, so they can feel happy and confident and experience positive mental health.

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Children and Change: A New Sibling

Welcome to the second installment in our mini-series on supporting children through change. This wee...

Children and Change: Moving House

Welcome to this week's blog and video.

Life involves many changes doesn't it? Some are good one

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Mother helps her daughter to complete a process to help develop resilience and boost self-esteem

Reviewing 2023 With Your Child

Welcome to the first blog post of 2024! I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas holiday.

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Sad looking girl wearing Santa Hat sitting by a Christmas Tree

Worried how your child will cope with Christmas?

While Christmas is a magical time of year for most children, it can of course be a very difficult ti...

3 Ways Your Child Could Be Fuelling Their Anxiety (without meaning to)

Managing anxious feelings is really difficult for most children and young people, and sometimes when...

Boy sitting in chair looking upset or defiant

Is my child anxious or just being naughty?

This is a question I get asked so often by parents! It can be hard to tell whether your child i...

👻 How to Make Halloween Fun for Anxious Children 🕷️🕸️

I'm sure I don't need to remind you that it's almost Halloween! 🎃

While for most children it's a...

Understanding the fight, flight, freeze response

In today's video I am going to be exploring the fight, flight or freeze response that is triggered

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5 Things Your Anxious Child Wishes They Could Tell You

Have you ever wondered what your anxious child is thinking and feeling?

In this week's video I'm sh...

Anxious boy not wanting to separate from mother

Does Your Child Have Separation Anxiety?

Another common question I get from parents is how can they help their child with separation anxiety,...

Exploring the Causes of Childhood Anxiety

One of the most common questions I get asked by desperate, worried parents is "Why is my child so an...

Image of anxious boy hiding head between knees

Understanding Childhood Anxiety Disorders

This week I want to focus on the subject of anxiety disorders - what they are, how to recognise the ...

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Frances is an award-winning Child Therapist who is known for using an innovative and creative approach to help her young clients overcome their difficulties and transform their lives. She has spent almost 30 years working in her own successful private practice based in the UK - Brighter Futures Personal Growth - seeing adults and children, and also worked in the NHS as a Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Therapist for a number of years within 2 CAMHS teams. As well as working with children, young people and their parents professionally, she is also a Mum and Step-Mum, and has eight grandchildren.

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