G found the sessions about emotions and emotional triggers and how to recognise them really useful, she learnt strategies to move beyond them to reduce the mind-based challenges and emotional overwhelm she felt at times. We don’t use “tick box” sheets like so many other mental health services. Each session is themed and adapted to suit the needs of the individual.
#Teen success story plus#
These are 30-minutes once a week, plus handy coaching reminders and actions were emailed to her parents shortly after for practice and application in between the sessions for continuation of the positive momentum.
Initially coaching sessions (once per week) were booked, which is the foundational stage of learning new strategies and techniques to create the initial positive momentum and help evaluate progress and what else may be needed. It also lowers any barriers to resistance because the child or teen feels welcomed, relaxed and reassured there’s someone to help them forward, like a friend, buddy or mentor,unlike the stigma of a Therapist or child Counsellor!
#Teen success story trial#
So we offer a special 15-minute FREE trial session, this proves incredibly helpful to meet with the young person and parent, to have the initial introductions as well as offer a few examples of how effective the coaching is. We understand young people can feel apprehensive when meeting someone new and wondering what’s going to be happening in the coaching. One of the many benefits of this is young people are most comfortable in their own home environment, they’re used to screen-time and it feels a very relaxed, conversational style of coaching for them to learn the tools they need and chat through different situations for us to find practical solutions that stay with them in real-life situations, where it really matters. This is typically via Zoom, Skype, Facetime or WhatsApp (via a video chat). She will push us to the point of getting really cross with her and then when we’ve reached that point, she has gone into what seems like a panic attack, struggling to breathe or control herself. She doesn’t deal with pressure well or having to get ready in a rush but despite this she always leaves getting ready to the last minute and often finds herself in the exact same situation. She locks herself away staring at her phone a lot of the time, looking at other people’s ‘perfect’ lives, and beautiful photos! She has had a few incidences of when she is running late and under pressure to get herself ready in time to leave, and she will have a complete meltdown to the level of almost unable to move or think.
Sometimes it’s not even a major thing done by her sister, she would get wound up by her just breathing some days. She struggles most with her younger sister they wind each other up but sometimes she finds herself in a real frenzy almost shaking with rage at how she has been wound up. She seems to get on better with those who are a year below her in school, we think she is intimidated by confident and more grown up girls.Īnnette’s Question: At it’s worst what was a typical or negative behaviour/language your daughter gets into?Īnswer: When frustrated G will often tell us how much she hates all of us, hates herself, wishes she were dead. She is a different person with her cheerleading friends, almost unrecognisable to the person in school. She starts comparing herself against stronger, more athletic girls, or more confident and “sassy girls,” and starts to doubt herself. She has been cheerleading for 3 years now, and whilst it gives her confidence, the start of each new season brings difficulties when new girls join the group. She then tried dance, again ended up placing in a competitive group, before finding her place in a cheerleading squad, which she loves and gives her a lot of confidence. She lacked upper body strength so moved to a recreational route. G was a gymnast at a younger age, in a competitive squad until she was 9½. Annette’s Question: What kinds of things have you tried in the past to help her (after-school clubs, books, audios, etc)?Īnswer: As parents we have tried to give encouragement through sporting activities.
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