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Children and Young people

In today’s world, more children and young people are facing significant emotional and mental well-being challenges. According to a 2017 survey, 50% of GCSE students reported that anxiety and stress had affected their schoolwork. If these issues aren’t addressed, they often become more entrenched and harder to overcome, making adult life more challenging to navigate.

Working with children and young people is different from working with adults and requires specialist training and skills. If you are a young person, or if you're concerned about a young person, finding the right support can be overwhelming. Many people don’t know where to turn or, out of desperation, may seek help from individuals who don’t have the necessary expertise. This can lead to delays in getting the right support, and the anxiety, fear, and pain can build up in the meantime.

Choosing the Right Counsellor

It’s important to ensure that the counsellor you approach has the right training and experience for working with children and young people. Always ask about their qualifications and experience when seeking help.

Within the field of counselling, there are professionals with extensive experience and specialist training specifically for working with young people. If you’re unsure where to start or need help finding the right match, please don’t hesitate to reach out via our contact form.

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Difficulties for children and young people

What can we do...

Children and young people, as mentioned in the video above, face a variety of difficulties. The impact of these difficulties can be lifelong and profound. Some of these difficulties are happenstance, or unforeseeable. Death, disease, family breakdown, difficult experiences, family mental health difficulties, all of these impact and effect children and young people. Rather than allowing these difficulties to become entrenched, the therapists who work at counselling@unit12 are here to use their skills and knowledge to help those children and young people.

By giving children and young people a safe place to explore and express themselves research tells us it gives them the ability to engage better in education, to have more satisfying life experiences, to lower their stress levels, to raise self esteem, and if the video above is accurate potentially even to have a longer life.