Child and Educational Psychology Services:

Psychology involves understanding human behaviour. 

We are 'child psychologists' and 'educational psychologists' so we generally focus on understanding children and young people's (between the ages of 0-25) development and learning. If your query involves thinking about how to support a child or young person with their learning and/or development then it's likely we can help. We also support the adults who support children and young people, so this might be supporting parents or school staff. 

You might not be exactly clear what we might be support you with, and that's ok. We might initially not share the same words or language to describe the problem but we can help you think about what support you might be looking for. We can help you to form your query into a question that we can help to answer. 

To give you an idea, here is a list of some of the things we generally support with:

• Supporting accessing the academic curriculum - for example: understanding literacy needs, understanding what dyslexia is and whether a child has it, how we can support reading or spelling difficulties. Understanding numeracy difficulties, dyscalculia - what is it and does my child have it? How can we support a child's cognitive development. 

• Supporting developing emotional needs - for example understanding anxiety or depression, understanding emotional regulation, developing self-esteem, understanding emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), supporting with anger, developing resilience 

• Supporting an understanding of behaviour - For example, unpicking why a child is behaving in a certain way (which will involve considering a range of other factors). 

• Supporting social development - For example, supporting understanding autism, developing friendships

• Understanding medical diagnoses and how to support with these -  for example children with Autism or ADHD 

• Understanding stages of development - for example Early Years, Adolescence, language development

• Supporting the adults who support the child - for example helping adults understand how to help a child, helping them be more able to help a child, helping parents, helping teachers

• Supporting a change in the child's environment - for example behaviour policies, communication friendly classrooms, what support does a child/young person need in school?

• Understanding Special Educational Needs (SEN) - for example What is SEN? Does a child have SEN?  How can we support children with SEN? Understanding EHC Needs Assessments (EHCNA). 

We recognise that there is an increasing pressure to involve Educational Psychologists in  order access other external support eg, funding/EHC Needs Assessments or other services. Whilst our involvement can certainly support referrals on to other services or for other purposes, it is important to note that this is not the primary aim of our involvement. 

For more information about us, what we believe in and how we work, please see the 'Mission Statement' on our 'Resources' page.