Did you know that anxiety is a type of anchor? It is a mental anchor, which is associated with the unwanted feelings caused by memories...

Shame can be very destructive. It can lead to feelings of humiliation, rejection or self-loathing and this can present as anger or rage....

Why, oh, why, do we sometimes ‘put our foot in it’? What on earth causes us to say the wrong thing at the wrong time or to the wrong...

Isn’t it tempting to put things right to help our children? Rectify their mistakes, to save them from the feelings of failure or...

It is natural for us to have aspirations for our children. Even from birth we will wonder how well they will do in life, what they will...

When we are anxious it is because our anxiety or worry, emotions have become too big and are out of control. Now there are lots of things...

Having a teenager in the house can be difficult at the best of times. And at the moment I’m sure many of you will know, it’s even worse....

A couple of years ago I was fostering Ellie, a lovely but very anxious 8-year, and I was trying to explain why people behave in the way do

There are so many problems when it comes to parenting, aren’t there? The ones I hear about most are: Children’s eating habits and...

All children have bouts of Challenging Behaviour. It can start with the terrible two’s, sometimes before and often into tweens and teens...

Are our Children a ‘Must have - Can’t do without it’ Generation? Are we giving our children too much? How could we save-money.

OMG! Homework!! Doesn't it just bring out the beast in us! If your kids are like mine - they hate it. And being in a home-schooling...

Identity and self-image are key to a child’s mental health and wellbeing. In fact, to our wellbeing as adults too. But with lockdown ...

The Ollie Coaching model explained by Ali Knowles, therapist and the author of the Ollie model.

Well, bath time in a foster home can be trying! Or it can be fun. Some foster children are not used to baths but Keep-it-simple...

Now that the rain is here & everything feels as though autumn must be setting in, I thought I'd cheer myself up recalling the winning pebble

Ollie-Coaching is a method devised by Alison Knowles to teach children (and adults!) that they can control how they feel. The main...

Alison Knowles and Ollie - working with a child using the anti-bullying superhero.

We all experience emotions.  However young children only feel basic emotions such as happiness sadness fear or anger. That doesn’t mean...

The Turtle Technique. This is a calming behaviour technique we used with a young child who used to hit out when he was angry.