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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My Top Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep

Did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to depression and anxiety amongst other things?

Being we...

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Is Worrying About Your Child’s Mental Health Making YOU Unwell?

Do you feel it's selfish to care for yourself when a child you love is struggling with big feelings?...

Breaking Bad News To A Child

Breaking bad news to a child is one of the hardest things we ever have to do as a parent.

Whether i...

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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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