Bookings available for individual Play Therapy and workshops
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children, family and carer workshops
Supporting children with medical anxiety
Are you caring for an infant or child who experiences medical anxiety?
Learn how to support your child to feel safe and empowered in the health environment.
3-Hour workshop covers:
- Medical stress and its impact on the child and family
- Developmentally sensitive preparation and support for healthcare interventions
- Assessing and responding to your child’s reactions to support coping
- Advocacy skills for engaging with health workers
- Develop a coping plan unique to your child
Small groups for personalised support
Neurodiversity affirming approach
Follow-up consultation available
Industry professional with 25yrs experience supporting children in health
advocacy and support for parents and carers of children with chronic or complex health needs or difficulties engaging in healthcare
Do you care for a child/children with complex or chronic health conditions, or who find healthcare overwhelming?
Do you struggle with or avoid appointments, blood tests and presentations to health, because it is just too hard?
Would you like to know more about how you can support your child before, during and after appointments or admissions?
Want to know how you can advocate for yourself and your child in healthcare?
3-Hour workshop covers:
- Ideas for home to help prepare for appointments, procedures, and admissions
- Responding to your child when they are feeling overwhelmed before, during and post health interventions
- Exploring a range of physical and psychosocial approaches to minimise pain and distress for healthcare procedures such as blood tests, cannulation, surgery, naso-gastric tube insertion, imaging and dressing changes
- Advocacy and talking with healthcare professionals to support understanding of the needs of your family
- Maintaining positive relationships and the balance of parent vs carer - for those that change dressings, provide feeds, medications and injections in the home
- Supporting your child and their changing needs as they develop
Small groups for personalised support
Individual comfort care plan for health admissions included in fee
Neurodiversity affirming approach
Follow-up consultation available
Industry professional with 25yrs experience supporting children in health
Children's workshops
Big worries associated with healthcare?
You're not alone. Join us to explore and learn in a safe and fun environment.
4-Hour Group workshop covers:
- Facilitated medical play to explore medical equipment safely
- Developmentally sensitive learning about our how our brain responds to danger, and how we can gain control
- Explore a range of coping strategies to identify individual coping styles
- Rehearsing routine medical procedures such as check-ups, blood tests and vaccinations
- Advocacy skills for engaging with health workers
For 5yrs +
Small groups of similar age for personalised support
Neurodiversity affirming approach
Follow-up consultation available
Industry professional with 25yrs experience supporting children in health
Parent/carer and child workshops available for under 5yrs
Managing anxiety with allergies
Are you caring for an infant or child with allergies? This workshop supports parents and carers to learn to manage anxiety with allergies across child development.
2-Hour workshop covers:
- Communicating with your child about allergies from infancy to teenage years
- Managing parental anxiety about allergy exposure
- Understanding typical worries for each developmental stage
- Planning and support for skin prick testing, food challenges and blood tests
- Language to support your child to thrive
- Managing emotional responses to allergy exposure
- Treating the EpiPen as your friend!
Small groups or family consultations
Meet other carers managing allergies
Neurodiversity affirming approach
Follow-up consultation available
Industry professional with 25yrs experience supporting children in health and 10 years working with Allergy & Immunology
