Using child friendly games and language, these therapies offer a greater understanding of individual strengths and difficulties and strategies and skills for coping and improving at home and at school.

This can help families think about the way they communicate with each other. It is useful when there are lots of rows or the avoidance of conflict, to find ways of building on the familys’ own strengths.

Our Developmental Difficulties Service provides diagnostic assessments and further intervention for Autistic Spectrum Disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome. We also address Specific Learning Difficulties /Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Speech and Language Disorders and ADHD, ADD and many others.

Recommended reading:

Choosing Talking Therapies?

Published by the Department of Health, this booklet provides information for people who feel depressed or unhappy, or who have emotional problems they cannot sort out on their own. It tells about the psychological help - or talking therapies - that are available for adults on the National Health Service (NHS). It explains what talking therapies are and what they aim to do.