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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Today is a special day 🎉

Today is a special day here at Brighter Futures for Kids HQ . . . . we are celebrating the fact...

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How To Protect Your Child's Mental Health

We have finally made it to the end of the of my mini-series exploring possible causes for...

Helping Your Child Develop Emotional Intelligence

In this workshop I teach you how to develop and increase your child's emotional intelligence, and...

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Is Your Child Emotionally Intelligent?

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your child could just do something with ease, that you...

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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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