Helping Your Child Shine:
Emotional and Behavioral Support
Tailored to Their Needs
Empowering Children to Overcome Challenges and Embrace Their Full Potential
Children’s Therapy offers a safe and nurturing space for children to explore their emotions, build resilience, and overcome challenges such as adjustment difficulties, insecurities, or neurodivergent hurdles.
Parenting is a journey filled with joys and challenges, especially when your child faces emotional, behavioural, or neurodivergent obstacles. Through compassionate and personalised therapy, Audrey equips children with the tools to thrive emotionally, socially, and behaviourally while empowering families to foster growth and resilience at home.
Helping Your Child Shine:
Empowering Children to Overcome Challenges and
Embrace Their Full Potential
Children’s Therapy offers a safe and nurturing space for children to explore their emotions, build resilience, and overcome challenges such as adjustment difficulties, insecurities, or neurodivergent hurdles.
Parenting is a journey filled with joys and challenges, especially when your child faces emotional, behavioural, or neurodivergent obstacles. Through compassionate and personalised therapy, Audrey equips children with the tools to thrive emotionally, socially, and behaviourally while empowering families to foster growth and resilience at home.
Emotional and Behavioral Support Tailored to Theis Needs
How Children’s Therapy Can Help
Audrey’s therapy sessions are thoughtfully designed to meet each child’s unique needs. Key areas of focus include:
Emotional Regulation
Supporting children in managing overwhelming feelings such as anger, anxiety, or sadness.
Social and Communication Skills
Helping children build meaningful connections and navigate social environments.
Anxiety and Stress Management
Addressing school-related pressures or fears.
Sensory Sensitivities
Assisting neurodivergent children in handling sensory challenges.
Behavioural Challenges
Fostering positive behavioural changes and reducing emotional outbursts.
Family Dynamics
Promoting harmony and understanding within the family.
Through this process, children gain resilience, self-awareness, and emotional balance.
Techniques Used in Children’s Therapy
Audrey incorporates a variety of proven techniques to engage children and address their challenges effectively, such as:
Parent Coaching
Guiding parents in managing challenging behaviours and fostering growth at home.
Mindfulness and Relaxation
Promoting emotional regulation and reducing anxiety.
Sensory Integration Therapy
Helping children navigate sensory processing challenges with greater ease.
Each technique is adapted to meet the child’s unique needs, ensuring an engaging and effective therapeutic process.
Play Therapy
Helping children process emotions and develop problem-solving skills through creative play.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Addressing negative thought patterns and encouraging positive behavioural changes.
Social Skills Training
Teaching effective communication, conflict resolution, and relationship-building.
Trauma-Informed Practices
Creating a safe environment for children who have experienced adversity.
Audrey’s Approach
Audrey adopts a compassionate, child-centred approach to therapy, using creative and evidence-based methods tailored to each child’s unique needs. Her sessions are engaging and impactful, grounded in key principles:
Building Trust
Creating a positive therapeutic relationship to help children feel safe and understood.
Tailored Strategies
Customize each session to align with the child’s unique circumstances.
Parent Empowerment
Providing parents with practical tools to support their child’s progress at home.
Audrey brings specialised expertise in supporting neurodivergent children, including those with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, behavioural challenges, and anxiety. By integrating creativity, expertise, and empathy, Audrey offers a transformative path to growth for children and their families.
Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and Its Symptoms
Audrey has a strong passion for working with individuals who exhibit neurodiverse traits and behavioural challenges. Her commitment is further enriched by her personal experience as a caregiver for a child with a Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile. This unique perspective allows her to approach her work with empathy and understanding, making her an invaluable resource in this field.
What is PDA?
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a profile on the autism spectrum characterized by an overwhelming need to avoid everyday demands. Unlike other autism profiles, the avoidance is driven by anxiety rather than defiance. People with PDA often seem oppositional, but their reactions are usually rooted in high levels of stress.
Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and Its Symptoms
Audrey has a strong passion for working with individuals who exhibit neurodiverse traits and behavioural challenges. Her commitment is further enriched by her personal experience as a caregiver for a child with a Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile. This unique perspective allows her to approach her work with empathy and understanding, making her an invaluable resource in this field.
What is PDA?
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a profile on the autism spectrum characterized by an overwhelming need to avoid everyday demands. Unlike other autism profiles, the avoidance is driven by anxiety rather than defiance. People with PDA often seem oppositional, but their reactions are usually rooted in high levels of stress.
Understanding PDA is crucial for offering the right support. With the proper recognition and strategies, individuals with PDA can better navigate daily tasks and reduce anxiety-triggering situations.
Why is PDA Often Misunderstood?
Because PDA symptoms can resemble defiance or "bad behavior," it’s often misdiagnosed or overlooked. Recognizing it requires understanding that the avoidance stems from anxiety, not willful opposition.
How is PDA Different?
While PDA shares some traits with classic autism, such as social difficulties and restrictive interests, it’s primarily marked by the intense need to avoid demands. It’s sometimes misunderstood as bad behavior, but it’s actually a response to anxiety.
Why is PDA Often Misunderstood?
Because PDA symptoms can resemble defiance or "bad behavior," it’s often misdiagnosed or overlooked. Recognizing it requires understanding that the avoidance stems from anxiety, not willful opposition.
How is PDA Different?
While PDA shares some traits with classic autism, such as social difficulties and restrictive interests, it’s primarily marked by the intense need to avoid demands. It’s sometimes misunderstood as bad behavior, but it’s actually a response to anxiety.
Understanding PDA is crucial for offering the right support. With the proper recognition and strategies, individuals with PDA can better navigate daily tasks and reduce anxiety-triggering situations.
Key Symptoms of PDA
Demand Avoidance
Refusal or resistance to simple requests, often out of proportion to the task at hand.
Mood Swings
Rapid shifts between calm and distress, linked to anxiety.
Role Play Preference
Comfort in pretend play or imaginative scenarios over real-life tasks.
Social Manipulation
Using social strategies (e.g., distraction or deflection) to avoid demands.
Obsessive Interests
Intense but shifting interests, sometimes as a way to distract from demands.
Difficulty with Transitions
Struggles with moving from one activity to another.
Demand Avoidance
Refusal or resistance to simple requests, often out of proportion to the task at hand.
Mood Swings
Rapid shifts between calm and distress, linked to anxiety.
Role Play Preference
Comfort in pretend play or imaginative scenarios over real-life tasks.
Key Symptoms of PDA
Social Manipulation
Using social strategies (e.g., distraction or deflection) to avoid demands.
Obsessive Interests
Intense but shifting interests, sometimes as a way to distract from demands.
Difficulty with Transitions
Struggles with moving from one activity to another.
For Your Family:
Stronger connections and harmony at home.
Practical strategies to support your child’s development.
Renewed hope and clarity for the future.
For Your Child:
Improved emotional regulation and resilience.
Enhanced communication and social skills.
Greater confidence and self-esteem.
Benefits You Can Expect
Audrey is a trusted therapist with extensive academic training and practical expertise in child development and neurodivergent care. As the mother of an autistic child, she deeply understands the challenges families face, offering a compassionate and results-driven approach.
Her ability to combine evidence-based techniques with empathy has made her a respected authority in children’s therapy. Audrey’s goal is to empower children and families with actionable solutions that foster growth, connection, and well-being.
Why Choose Audrey?
Expertise, Empathy,
and Proven Results
"Audrey has a very warm and caring nature, and my son is very comfortable working with her. Audrey also provides me with end of session feedback and what’s planned for future sessions which I find very valuable"
Parent
"Audrey has been fantastic with our little one, working around his personality to assist with the challenges so he can overcome them. Audrey is proactive, warm and reliable and each session is unique. Thank you, Audrey!"
Parent
"Audrey is an incredible therapist. We have been working with her for over two years to support our son, who has a PDA profile and very challenging behavior. Her ability to build rapport with him has been invaluable, and the progress we’ve seen is a testament to her skill and dedication. We are deeply grateful for Audrey’s support and care."
Parent
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