Children's Counselling

Support for Anxiety & Worries

For children who experience excessive worrying, fears, nervousness, overthinking or difficulty managing anxious feelings

What Is Calm Seas?

Calm Seas is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children in understanding, managing and reducing anxiety and worries. The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, emotional regulation and solution-focused approaches.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Calm Seas is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk about their experiences, explore difficulties that arise between sessions and work at a pace that feels manageable for them.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, presenting concerns and individual circumstances.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Understand what anxiety is and how it affects them
Recognise thoughts, feelings and behaviours
Develop calming and grounding techniques
Build confidence when facing worries
Learn ways to manage anxious thoughts and feelings
Create a personal 'calm plan'

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

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Building Self-Esteem & Confidence

For children who struggle with confidence, self-belief, negative self-talk or feeling 'not good enough'

What Is Bright Star?

Bright Star is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children in developing healthier self-esteem, greater self-belief and a more positive understanding of themselves. The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, emotional regulation, strengths-based and solution-focused approaches.

Each session has a clear therapeutic focus, helping children to explore how they see themselves, recognise their strengths, understand unhelpful self-critical thoughts and develop practical strategies for responding to setbacks and challenges. Children are encouraged to identify their achievements, recognise personal qualities and build a more balanced and compassionate view of themselves.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Bright Star is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk about their experiences, explore situations that may be affecting their confidence and work through difficulties that arise between sessions. The programme can also provide opportunities to explore friendships, school experiences, worries about making mistakes, comparison with others and feelings of not being “good enough”.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, presenting concerns and individual circumstances. The overall aim is to help children recognise their own strengths, develop confidence in their abilities and build a stronger sense of self-worth that they can carry into everyday life.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Recognise strengths and achievements
Understand and challenge unhelpful thoughts
Build resilience
Feel more comfortable being themselves
Develop confidence in social and school situations

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

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Support for Emotional Regulation & Anger

For children who experience big emotions and find it difficult to understand, express or manage them.

What is Big Feelings?

Big Feelings is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children in understanding, expressing and managing strong emotions, including anger, frustration and overwhelm. The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, emotional regulation, emotional literacy and solution-focused approaches.

Each session has a clear therapeutic focus, helping children to recognise and name their emotions, understand what happens in their bodies when feelings become intense and identify the thoughts, situations and triggers that can contribute to emotional escalation. Children are supported to develop practical strategies for managing strong feelings safely and effectively, rather than becoming overwhelmed by them.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Big Feelings is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk about experiences that have been difficult for them, explore situations that may be contributing to their emotional responses and work through challenges that arise between sessions. The programme recognises that anger is often an important signal that something feels difficult, unfair, upsetting or overwhelming, and aims to help children understand what their feelings are communicating.

Children are supported to develop a personalised toolkit of emotional regulation strategies, such as recognising early warning signs, using calming techniques, taking time away from challenging situations, communicating feelings appropriately and choosing alternative responses when emotions feel overwhelming.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, presenting concerns and individual circumstances. Big Feelings aims to help children feel more in control of their emotions, understand their anger and develop confidence in managing difficult feelings in healthier and more constructive ways.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Identify and name emotions
Understand what happens when emotions become overwhelming
Recognise emotional triggers
Develop healthy ways to express feelings
Learn strategies for managing anger and frustration
Create an individual emotional regulation toolkit

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

Find out more here.

Support for Friendships and Social Confidence

For children who find friendships, social situations and/or communication difficult

What is Lighthouse of Friendship?

Lighthouse of Friendship is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children who find friendships, social situations and/or communication difficult. The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, social-emotional learning, emotional regulation and solution-focused approaches.

Each session has a clear therapeutic focus, helping children to explore what friendships mean to them, understand social situations and develop greater confidence in communicating with others. Children may explore topics such as starting and maintaining friendships, joining in with groups, understanding different perspectives, managing disagreements, recognising social cues and expressing their thoughts and feelings appropriately.

The programme also provides opportunities to explore experiences that may have affected a child’s confidence in social situations, including feeling left out, misunderstood, worried about saying the wrong thing or finding it difficult to know how to respond to others. Children are supported to identify their own communication style and develop strategies that feel authentic and manageable for them.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Lighthouse of Friendship is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk about their own friendships and social experiences, explore difficulties that arise between sessions and practise strategies in a safe and supportive environment. The programme focuses on understanding rather than judgement, recognising that every child experiences and approaches friendships differently.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, presenting concerns and individual circumstances. Lighthouse of Friendship aims to help children develop greater confidence in social situations, strengthen their communication skills and build positive, healthy relationships while feeling more comfortable being themselves.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Understand friendships and healthy boundaries
Develop communication skills
Build social confidence
Explore conflict resolution and disagreements
Recognise positive and unhealthy friendship behaviours
Develop strategies for handling peer pressure and difficult situations

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

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Support for Change, Separation and Family Transitions

For children experiencing significant changes within their family or home life.

What is Safe Harbour?

Safe Harbour is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children who are experiencing significant changes within their family or home life. This may include parental separation, divorce, changes in living arrangements, family breakdown, bereavement, the arrival of a new family member or other significant transitions that may leave a child feeling uncertain, worried or emotionally overwhelmed.

The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, emotional regulation, attachment-informed and solution-focused approaches. It provides children with a safe and supportive space to make sense of the changes they are experiencing, explore their feelings and develop healthy ways of coping with uncertainty and transition.

Each session has a clear therapeutic focus, helping children to understand and express their emotions, identify worries and concerns, develop coping strategies and recognise the things within their lives that provide stability, safety and reassurance. Children may explore feelings such as sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, worry or loss, while being supported to understand that difficult emotions are a natural response to significant change.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Safe Harbour is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk about their experiences in their own words, explore questions or worries that arise between sessions and work at a pace that feels manageable for them. The programme does not assume that children will experience family change in the same way and can be adapted to reflect each child's individual circumstances and relationships.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, presenting concerns and individual family circumstances. Safe Harbour aims to help children process change, feel more secure and supported, develop emotional resilience and build confidence in navigating the changes taking place within their lives.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Express feelings about changes in a safe environment
Make sense of difficult or confusing emotions
Develop healthy coping strategies
Build a sense of security and stability
Understand that their feelings are valid
Identify trusted adults and sources of support

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

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Support for Bereavement and Loss

For children who are experiencing grief following the death or loss of someone important to them.

What is Healing Hearts?

Healing Hearts is a semi-structured therapeutic programme designed to support children who are experiencing grief following the death or loss of someone important to them. The programme provides a safe, compassionate space for children to understand and express their feelings, make sense of their loss and develop ways of coping with the changes that bereavement can bring.

The programme draws on evidence-based principles, including psychoeducation, emotional regulation, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), strengths-based and solution-focused approaches. Children are supported to explore the different emotions associated with grief, which may include sadness, anger, worry, confusion, guilt, loneliness or even moments of happiness. The programme recognises that grief is individual and that there is no single “right” way for a child to grieve.

Each session has a clear therapeutic focus, helping children to understand grief, explore memories and feelings connected to the person they have lost, recognise changes in their lives and develop healthy coping strategies. Children may also explore difficult thoughts or worries surrounding death and loss, while being supported to identify sources of comfort, safety and emotional support.

Although each session has a clear therapeutic focus, Healing Hearts is intentionally flexible. Children are given space to talk, remember, ask questions, express emotions and explore their experiences in ways that feel natural to them. Therapeutic activities can be adapted to suit the child's age and communication style and may include creative work, storytelling, memory activities, emotional regulation strategies and opportunities to create meaningful ways of remembering the person they have lost.

The programme can be adapted according to the child’s age, developmental stage, relationship with the person who has died or been lost, presenting concerns and individual circumstances. Healing Hearts aims to help children understand and navigate their grief, develop healthy ways of coping with loss and find ways to carry their memories and feelings forward while gradually adjusting to life after loss.

How Can Little Lighthouse Counselling Help My Child?

Understand grief in an age-appropriate way
Explore and express difficult emotions
Talk about memories and relationships
Develop coping strategies for difficult days
Understand that grief can look and feel different over time
Create ways to remember and maintain a connection with someone they have lost.

How Many Sessions Will My Child Need?

Little Lighthouse Counselling offers packages to suit your child's needs and your financial circumstances.

Find out more here.