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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How to Tell If Your Child is Stressed or Overwhelmed

Sometimes our children seem to behave badly, and it can feel like they are being really difficult o...

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Creating a Nurturing Home Environment for Your Child

Have you noticed that your surroundings can really affect the way you feel?

Our homes can be a cosy...

The Top 3 Most Difficult Feelings for Children to Cope With

In my almost 30 years of working therapeutically with children, there are some feelings that I see c...

Welcome

Hi and welcome to the first post on our blog 'Creating Kids Who Can'

This blog aims to help parents...

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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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