SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Children need ways (other than just words) to express and explore what is troubling them and to help learn and practice new ideas and skills. We all learn best through 'doing' and experiencing.
Nature-Based and Expressive Arts Therapy tap into the creative power of play, art, rhythm, movement, story making and there are opportunities to directly learn about relationships and managing feelings from the horses.
As a parent, you know your child better than anyone else, so it is important that we work closely with you in addressing your child’s needs and meeting their therapeutic goals.
Some children and young people need help with one or more of the following challenges:
Therapeutic support with mental health challenges
Overcoming sadness, withdrawal or feeling bad about self
Stepping out from negative thinking
Fears, worries and anxiety - enabling more engagement with life
Managing self-harming behaviours, thoughts and feelings
Working through grief and loss
Social, emotional and developmental challenges, including neurodiversity
Helping children develop skills and capacities, so they can be their best unique self, with a positive self-identity.
Building social and communication skills to support making and keeping friends, setting boundaries and increasing experiences of connection
Developing a greater understanding of feelings and discovering how to regulate their nervous system – managing big overwhelming or strong emotions
Developing greater awareness of experiences and increasing ability to focus
Exploring any feelings of ‘difference’ and developing self-advocacy.
Increasing feelings of strength, confidence, enjoyment and safety in their body, including awareness and integration of your child’s eight senses, including vestibular (balance), proprioceptive (movement) and interoception (internal).
Childhood trauma
Sara offers therapy to children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma (abuse, neglect and/or family violence), including those living in out-of-home-care, or who have witnessed or experienced one-off traumatic events, such as natural disasters or accidents.
Bumps-in-the-road
Children are generally quite resilient and adaptive to change, but occasionally big transitions or a family crisis can lead to difficulties adjusting and coping, even in those who normally manage life well.
If your child is struggling, they may benefit from short-term therapeutic intervention to support them to cope and build resilience.
Parenting support
We work with parents and carers who would like help to understand, 'tune in' and respond effectively to your child’s challenging behaviours, especially when your child struggles with regulating 'big feelings' or is highly anxious. We can support you in developing playful connection, master the art of ‘emotion coaching’, better understand and regulate your own nervous system and develop self-compassion in your parenting.
For more information on the therapeutic interventions Sara offers, please see Meet Sara.
For more information regarding the Mima Counselling Service approach, please see About Therapy.
We can offer NDIS therapeutic support services for anyone who is self managed or plan managed.
