Creative Therapy: for children and young people

28/01/2026

I’m looking for someone to join our team!
Creative, passionate and independent 🧠🫁🌱

2026 💪🏽

28/01/2026

“The only way to do great work, is to love what you do”

2026 has already brought more opportunities than I ever could have dreamt!
Working in ADHD and mental health is my passion, here’s to making a difference 💪🏽

26/01/2026

Always reading, always learning 🧠

"The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality."
Friedrich Nietzsche

So true!
There are many different ways of supporting mental health and wellbeing.

One size does not fit all, that’s why we should offer a variety of techniques…

Needs led 🙏🏽🧠🫁

21/01/2026

8 essential techniques I teach as a family therapist…

🧘🏽‍♀️Yoga
Yoga combines movement, breath, and attention, which deactivates the fight/ flight response and activates the parasympathetic rest and digest mode.

💗 Self compassion
Talking to yourself kindly tells the nervous system there’s no threat. This counteracts shame and chronic stress responses.

🙏🏽 Gratitude
Gratitude trains the brain to notice “enough” instead of “not enough,” which rewires reward pathways over time.

🫁 Breathing slow
Breath is a direct remote control for the vagus nerve, which governs relaxation.

🧠 Positive thinking
Thoughts shape chemistry. Repeated positive framing strengthens neural pathways linked to resilience.

🌱 Acts of kindness
The brain treats generosity as a win. Even witnessing kindness can trigger these chemicals.

🤍 Family yoga / touch
Safe touch and shared movement signal “I belong” to the brain. Oxytocin is especially strong here, it’s the same chemical involved in parent/child bonding.

☺️ Relaxation
Deep relaxation tells the brain it’s safe to repair, restore, and reset.

It’s science!
It’s effective!
It’s evidence based!

It’s also a way of life 🤌🏽

19/12/2025

14/12/2025

For me, being a therapist means practicing what I preach.

It means tending to my own mental health, prioritising self care, choosing positive thinking, building body confidence, reducing stress, and living in gratitude.

This work isn’t just a job, it’s a lifestyle.

It’s choosing compassion over judgment, kindness, embodying the tools I share in the therapy room. These aren’t just concepts I teach, they’re practices I live by.

For me, yoga is essential.
“The body keeps the score”, it holds onto what the mind tries to forget.
“Movement is medicine”, yoga is my medicine!

After years of training, research, and experience, I try to lead by example, I strive to be what I promote, becoming what I encourage others to be, and living by what I know truly works.

10/12/2025

Last hurdle… please let this be the last hurdle 😆🙏🏽

Finish line in sight

08/12/2025

ADHD related TikTok content is extremely popular with the top 100 videos in January 2023 with alone reaching almost half a billion views in total.

A study systematically evaluated the content, engagement, and reach of these100
videos under the and found:

Many claims that were characterised as ADHD symptoms were transdiagnostic and actually reflected normal human experience.

Most referenced their lived experience, drawing on their life experience, believe certain behaviours, thoughts, or feelings attributable to their ADHD when in fact it was not related to the criteria for ADHD.

Only 48.7% of the claims were accurately reflecting a symptom of adolescent or adult ADHD as characterised by the DSM-5.

42.0% we’re describing transdiagnostic symptoms that could reflect multiple disorders and 68.5% were better reflecting normal human experience.

This was based on just 100 posts in one month, in 2023! I’ve no doubt we see even more posts now!

THIS is a problem, people sharing their personal experiences making it so relatable everyone thinks they have ADHD.
THIS is a problem, people sharing misinformation.
THIS is a problem, celebrities sharing ADHD info: the halo effect… just because they’re a celebrity they don’t know everything.

What encourages these kind of posts?
The study concludes it’s high follow counts, likes, and the financial benefits.

ADHD is a set of behaviours, that have been translated into symptoms.
The criteria is now wider, the requirement of symptoms for a diagnosis are reduced. It is the most researched childhood label yet still the most controversial and contradictory.

Why i feel a lot of people post about their ADHD experience?
A sense of connection!

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0319335

07/12/2025

First online session with a family in New York…

made me think I should probably be offering my family therapy programme online?!

2026 I’m excited for all things ADHD and Autism.

03/12/2025

It’s not “just” blowing bubbles:
it’s emotional regulation
it’s activating your parasympathetic nervous system
it’s calming your mind

without even realising it! 🧠

01/12/2025

127 pages written so far for my PhD!
Not sure if that’s good or not.
I’ll probably finish with double that amount!

127 pages about ADHD, mental health, connection and yoga.

The amount of reading that’s gone into being able to write those pages is insane 🧠💻