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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How To Help A Child With Back To School Anxiety

In this week's blog I am revisiting a post from this time last year, as it is very relevant now ....

Is My Child Anxious or Just Behaving Badly?

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

The Link Between Procrastination, Perfectionism and Anxiety in Children

Is your child a perfectionist, a procrastinator or maybe both?

In this week's video I am...

3 Ways Your Child Might Be Making Their Anxiety Worse

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

Is Your Anxious Child a Fighter, a Flyer or A Freezer?

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

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5 Things Your Anxious Child Wants You To Know

Have you ever wondered what might be going on in the mind of your anxious child?

In this week's...

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The Effects Of Diet On Mental Health

According to a recent study carried out in the UK, the diets of British teenagers are 'unhealthy...

The Impact of Bereavement On Teenagers

In this week's video - which is the third part of this mini-series on the subject of bereavement...

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The Impact of Bereavement on Young Children

In this week's video - which is the second part of this mini-series on the subject of bereavement...

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Helping Your Child Cope With Worries About Death and Dying

The subject of death and dying is one that many children worry about, in fact it even has a name...

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What to do when your anxious child can't get to sleep on their own

This week I have made a video all about children who find it hard to fall asleep on their...

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Are You Worried That Your Partner's Anxiety May Be Affecting Your Child?

If your partner suffers from anxiety, you may be concerned that it may be influencing your child...

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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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