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.

How Anxiety Feels in your Child's Body

In my work as a child therapist, I've often witnessed the profound impact that anxiety can...

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Does Your Child Have Anxiety? Identifying the Symptoms

It’s not long now until we launch From ‘Fearful to Fearless’ again –...

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Back to School Anxiety

Many parents contact me asking for help with back-to-school anxiety, particularly at this...

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Helping Your Teen Cope With Disappointing Exam Results

Here in the UK, teenagers across the country have already received their A level results or are...

Helping Your Child Sleep Peacefully: 3 Effective Breathing Techniques

If you’ve been following me for a while, you will know that I am always eager to provide...

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A Good Night's Sleep - My Top Tips

This week I am sharing a post from the blog archive on the subject of sleep, as I know...

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Today is a special day 🎉

Today is a special day here at Brighter Futures for Kids HQ . . . . we are celebrating the fact...

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Nurturing Young Voices: Supporting Children Who Fear Speaking in Public

As parents, we often witness our children experiencing a wide range of emotions as they navigate...

Understanding the Plight of 'Ghost' Children: Mental Health & School Absence

In recent years, a concerning phenomenon has emerged in educational settings, where...

Boy with special educational needs struggling to do his homework

From Challenges to Triumphs: Championing the mental health of children with special educational needs - Part 2

Welcome to this week's blog post in which I continue exploring the mental health challenges faced...

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From Challenges to Triumphs: How parents can be champions for the mental health of their children with special educational needs.

Welcome to this week's blog post in which I start exploring the mental health challenges...

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Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 6

I'm so pleased to share the final instalment of my mini-series on the top ten questions that...

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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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