About Actual You Counselling

Poor self-esteem can manifest itself as a number of problems in children. It can contribute to anxiety, academic problems, depression, behavioural issues, and more. Building a foundation of high self-esteem can help children gain the confidence to face their problems, and begin implementing skills. 

Understanding what positive and negative friendships/relationships look like is very important for a child's well-being. Especially those children who may be more vulnerable due to developmental delays. A positive relationship can have a positive impact on self-esteem and feeling supported in all areas of life.

Recognising and naming emotions is important for everyone so that we can express how we feel. These workshops build emotional literacy and identify emotions as we feel them. This workshop also looks at triggers and physical sensations that can go alongside specific emotions and how we can better manage those.

Anger is a very strong emotion and although anger can be displayed outwardly there are often underlying emotions to it such as sadness or loneliness. It is important to explore what anger is, why we feel anger and what emotions underneath are triggering this. We will look at events that may cause anger, what we can do to manage anger and how we can use coping strategies and de-escalation skills.

We look at what stress is and how the feeling of being stressed impacts lives. We look at how stress presents in us physically, emotionally and mentally and what we can do to manage these. This workshop includes identifying negative habits or behaviours and replacing or reducing these with more positive behaviours that can be added to a daily routine. 

This is a word that we hear so much more from our young people than we ever have before. The

 workshop looks at what anxiety is and the difference between good and bad anxiety. The impact of feeling anxious can feel very different for each of us and we need to be able to identify the physical and emotional signs so that anxiety is identified sooner in order to self-regulate more effectively.