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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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...

Understanding the fight, flight, freeze response

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

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Back to School Anxiety

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

What are the Common Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety in Children?

Welcome to the first week of my new mini series in which I will be answering the Top 10 most...

Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Your Parenting Style

Another week has flown by and we have aleady reached part 5 of my mini-series exploring...

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Is Your Child Emotionally Intelligent?

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your child could just do something with ease, that you...

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...

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How Shame Affects Children and Young People

If your child is experiencing anxiety, or angry meltdowns, or perfectionism or low mood, it could...

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How to Help A child With Back to School Anxiety

Its very common for children to struggle to get back to school after the school holidays . . ....

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Separation And Divorce: What To Do When Your Child Doesn't Want To Visit Their Other Parent

Is your child refusing to go on contact visits to see their other parent, or getting very...

How to Calm a Child Who is Having a Meltdown

Have you every tried to reason with an angry or anxious child, and then found yourself getting...

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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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