Parents

I am an Associate Practitioner with Happy Confident Kids®. I hold an enhanced DBS check and a safeguarding children level 1 certification.

Happy Confident Kids® workshops and online coaching sessions teach children the skills and strategies needed to resolve anxiety, build confidence, and boost self-belief.

Using coaching techniques from NLP combined with play, Happy Confident Kids® have discovered a unique way to empower children to be confident and resilient from within. 

Sessions are typically held with one parent and a child, however, I also provide family sessions.

I offer four Happy Confident Kids® workshops:  

• Building confidence
• Resolving anxiety
• More calm
• Dealing with overwhelm & anger

For more information and to book please go to the services and booking page, which can be found on the 'Wellbeing' drop down menu. If you would like to talk through first please email info@courageouspeople.co.uk to set up a call.

Please also take a look at the video below and the Happy Confident Kids® website.

 I have found that using the psychology of colour to select flower essences is a great way for children to open up and talk about their emotions. 

I offer parent and child bespoke flower essence selection sessions.  Sessions last one hour.

One-to-one sessions with your child lasts up to 45 minutes and includes their bespoke essence. 

"Laura suggested that we did a zoom session using coloured flash cards to help ascertain what was causing my daughter's anxieties and which flower essences may help calm her a little. It was a quick and fascinating activity that she really enjoyed. Laura made it fun and engaged really well with Anaïs. We still have some of the drops left and Anaïs uses them whenever she feels a bit overwhelmed. 

This is what Anaïs wanted to add: 

I took the flower essence that Laura made for me the night before my first day of secondary school after lockdown. It really calmed me down, because I was really nervous. It's really calming and works magnificently.  

Another fun and helpful activity was the stress relieving balloon... I loved blowing up the imaginary balloon and filling it with everything that was bothering me and then pretending to pop it.  

Thank you so much Laura".

T.Baxter, Cake Designer and Anaïs, aged 12

Children can find it difficult to express or articulate how they are feeling.

Happy Confident Kids® have created a way of overcoming this communication barrier and teaching children how they can connect, understand, and articulate these emotions.

Using LEGO® as a universal language of expression, children sometimes find it easier to relate to these figures.

Combined with coaching it can help unlock  thoughts and feelings which previously may have created negative behaviours. It can support children in finding it easier to communicate, concentrate, feel calmer, and more confident.

COMING IN THE SUMMER

Dr Campbell-McBride the creator of the Gut & Psychology Syndrome and Gut & Physiology Syndrome (GAPS™) nutritional protocol has a degree in medicine, and post-graduate degrees in neurology and human nutrition.

When her son was given an autism diagnosis she looked at ways to support him. She discovered the vital connection between the health of a person's gut and the health of their brain, as well as the rest of their body. As a result Dr Campbell-McBride has designed a highly successful protocol for diagnoses including autism, dyspraxia, ADD, ADHD, and dyslexia.

I will be commencing certified GAPS™ practitioner training in March and hoping to offer this service to parents and their children late spring / summer.