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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What to do when your anxious child can't get to sleep on their own Feb 18, 2022

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

Adult woman holding little boy who is unable to sleep

My Top Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep May 18, 2021

Did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to depression and anxiety amongst other things?

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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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