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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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Two - A New Sibling

Welcome to the second blog in this mini-series on helping children cope with change; this one is...

Childhood Anxiety - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs

Welcome to the first part of a mini-series of posts on the subject of childhood anxiety, which is...

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How Shame Affects Children and Young People

If your child is experiencing anxiety, or angry meltdowns, or perfectionism or low mood, it could...

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Bullying - Part 4 - Cyberbullying: how to help your child

Welcome to the final post in this 4-part series all about bullying.

We've looked at how to spot...

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Bullying - Part 3 - How To Help If Your Child is Being Bullied

I see a lot of children and young people in my private practice who have experienced bullying and...

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Bullying - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs That Your Child is Being Bullied

Bullying can have a devastating effect on a child - not just at the time, but potentially...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 3

Welcome to the third and final part of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 2

Welcome back to part two of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and divorce, and...

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Protecting Children from the Negative effects of Separation and Divorce - Part 1

When parents separate and/or divorce, it can be a deeply distressing experience for their...

The Food Mood Connection - Part 3 - Could Your Child Be Comfort Eating To Avoid Big Feelings?

In this final part of the 3 part series on the connection between food and mood, I wanted to...

The Food Mood Connection - Part 2 - What foods can help improve your child’s mental health?

Welcome to the second post of this 3-part mini series on the issue of the connection between your...

The Food Mood Connection - Part 1 - Could your child’s diet be aggravating their mental health?

There's a wealth of documented evidence now available to show the connect between diet and...

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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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