Build a Bridge
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Child Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy for children (ages 4–11) can help young people understand and manage their worries, anxieties, and emotional challenges within a safe and confidential relationship. In my child therapy sessions, I use play and creative techniques to help children explore their inner world, express emotions, and make sense of their experiences.
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Every session is tailored to each child’s developmental stage and emotional needs, with the goal of fostering psychological growth, resilience, and healing.
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Parents play a vital role in their child’s therapeutic process. When children begin to heal, it’s equally important for family dynamics to evolve alongside them. To support this, I offer parent sessions alongside the child’s therapy, providing a space for parents to reflect, understand their child’s emotional needs, and explore practical ways of supporting them at home.
This holistic and collaborative approach ensures that progress in therapy translates into meaningful change within the family, leading to stronger connections and long-term wellbeing.
Adolescent Psychotherapy
My therapy sessions for teenagers provide an accepting, engaging, and safe environment where young people can explore and work through difficult emotions, thoughts, and experiences. I offer teen therapy in North London, supporting adolescents who struggle with anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, perfectionism, or self harm.
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Many adolescents prefer to express themselves through talking rather than creative methods. However, some teens find art and craft activities to be a gentler, less intrusive way to communicate and make sense of their feelings. I adapt my approach to each young person’s comfort and needs, ensuring therapy always feels supportive and non-judgmental.
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An important part of my work with teenagers involves psychoeducation — helping them understand how their mind and body respond to stress, anxiety, or trauma. This knowledge empowers them to recognise their emotions, reduce shame and self-blame, and build healthier ways of coping.
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Through this process, adolescents develop emotional awareness, confidence, and resilience, laying the foundation for long-term wellbeing.
Reflective Parenting Sessions
I offer individual parenting sessions online or in person, providing parents with a supportive space to explore their own triggers, patterns of relating, and the ways family dynamics may affect their child’s wellbeing. Through these sessions, parents can develop healthier communication strategies, gain insight into their child’s perspective, and adopt a more empathic, reflective, and nurturing approach to parenting.
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Parenting sessions often run alongside a child’s therapy, allowing the child to receive individual psychotherapy while parents work on their own challenges and build practical skills to support their child’s emotional growth.
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Even if a child is not currently in therapy, parents can benefit from reflective parenting sessions to better understand their parenting style, strengthen family relationships, and improve the home environment.
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Therapy with TCKs
Living an expat or internationally mobile lifestyle offers many privileges, including the opportunity to explore new cultures, travel the world, and form diverse social connections. Third Culture Kids (TCKs) are often adaptable, open-minded, and globally aware.
However, the repeated cycles of separation — leaving behind familiar environments, friends, teachers, and favourite cultural experiences — can lead to unresolved grief and challenges with personal and cultural identity. If left unprocessed, these feelings may contribute to anxiety, depression, or emotional difficulties.
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Therapy for TCKs in London focuses on helping individuals explore and process the losses they carry — both concrete and existential. This may include grief related to “loss of home,” “loss of self,” or “loss of identity.” By exploring these emotions in a safe and supportive environment, TCKs can find relief from internal turmoil, gain emotional clarity, and develop a stronger sense of self despite the complexities of an internationally mobile life.