The Youth Fairy Heathfield

The Youth Fairy Heathfield A modern, solution-focused approach to positive change for children, teens and young adults. I hold an Enhanced DBS and am fully insured.

I'm Vicki, therapist at The Youth Fairy, a team of Solution Focused therapists dedicated to improving the emotional well-being and mental health of children and teenagers suffering from anxiety, stress, anger, emotional regulation and low confidence. I offer a 1 hour consultation (free) face to face in Heathfield or online, to discuss your child's situation and how I can help them regain more emotional control and see them feeling happier, calmer and much more confident in a relatively short amount of time. As well as helping young people make these changes, I’m passionate that educating them on their mental health is such an important and essential part of the change process. By empowering them with this knowledge, we can help young people to develop more positive, healthy habits for life. In the consultation I’ll explain to you and your child how the brain works to create their specific problems and associated feelings, behaviours or symptoms. This understanding can be really motivational to children as they realise there is hope, see more clearly what we can do about it and how to promote more mentally healthy behaviours in the future. This knowledge is super helpful for you as a parent too - it allows for greater understanding, creates a common language to talk more easily with your child about their well-being and gives you specific ideas of how you can best support the process (and beyond). And because this modern, well researched approach is solution focused, it means your child won’t have to focus on the past in great detail or revisit traumatic events to make really positive change. Instead, it supports children to recognise their strengths and gives them the tools to move forward. You’ll also get my relaxation audio downloads to help improve any sleep problems they are having and support the process. Before training as a therapist and joining the Youth Fairy team I have a background in bereavement care and have assisted hundreds of families through their grief journey. This includes helping children cope with the loss of a family member, parent or sibling by enabling them to regain control of their feelings. Although grief is a specialist area, I also work with a range of other concerns such as anxiety, stress, trauma, low mood and low confidence/self-esteem.

Sharing some ...Couldn't have said this better myself. 🧚
27/11/2025

Sharing some ...

Couldn't have said this better myself. 🧚

🌟 ON THE BLOG 🌟School can be a challenging time for friendships: Especially after school holidays or a big move when chi...
26/11/2025

🌟 ON THE BLOG 🌟

School can be a challenging time for friendships: Especially after school holidays or a big move when children are;

👉 reuniting with friends
👉 changing friendship groups or
👉 having to confront previous conflicts or
👉 breakdowns in friendships

Moving to a new school, can feel overwhelming and like starting friendships from scratch.

Friendships move to a new level with the move to secondary school around the age of 11 and through secondary school. Friendships become more intimate, mutually beneficial and two-sided.

🤯 Navigating friendships is not easy and it’s particularly difficult for our teenagers who are managing an influx of hormones.
🤯 Now let’s be clear, these hormones are largely responsible in encouraging our teens to lean towards being in a more reactive state, driven by fear or pleasure and any previous survival tactics.
🤯 Put this together with the fact that the others in their friendship circle are likely to be managing the same hormone influx and you can see why they are often having to navigate relationship conflict.

When our children have good friendships, they are better equipped to:

😄 Deal with challenges that life throws at them
😄 Develop the skills of empathy and reasoning
😄 Build healthy boundaries and resilience
😄 Learn to successfully navigate conflict.
😄 Develop a sense of self and independence
😄 Create an additional support network

We all need friends. We know that we are happier when we are part of a tribe. This tribe can be within our family but also often extends to our peers and the friendships we develop.

Friendship is good for our brain. Good friendship is good for our brain. Good friendships benefit us, they are good for our emotional and mental well-being. But good friendships do not come easily, they can be difficult to foster, manage and maintain.

So, what can we do to support our children in developing positive, healthy friendships?

Head on over to The Parent Pad to find:

👉 Tips for supporting your child to foster healthy relationships

👉 Ideas for helping them to better navigate conflict

👉 Links to further information and support

Take a read here: 👇 👇 👇

https://www.theyouthfairy.com/friendships-and-fallouts

😀 Time to SmileThe Youth Fairy SMILE programme works with children struggling with the symptoms and behaviours associate...
25/11/2025

😀 Time to Smile

The Youth Fairy SMILE programme works with children struggling with the symptoms and behaviours associated with anxiety, stress, anger, excessive negativity and low confidence. It’s designed to help them regain a greater level of emotional resilience, control and develop a much more optimistic, positive and confident outlook on life. 🧚

It can help to...

✨ Boost feelings of overall happiness
✨ Feel calmer in everyday situations
✨ In control of thoughts, emotions, and reactions
✨ Increased confidence and self-recognition
✨ Develop a more positive attitude
✨ Interact with others more positively
✨ Cope better with life challenges
✨ Ditch unwanted habits: e.g device obsession
✨ Improve sleep problems

Find out more details at the website...

https://www.theyouthfairy.com/programmes/smile/

🧡 New week readyLet's do this 💪
24/11/2025

🧡 New week ready

Let's do this 💪

Pleased to have been able to support a good cause and celebrate the people from Muma Nurture making a difference in our ...
23/11/2025

Pleased to have been able to support a good cause and celebrate the people from Muma Nurture making a difference in our local community.

Myself and Becky The Youth Fairy Hastings collected our award for Wellbeing Business of The Year ✨

It’s tough to know when to get involved and when to stand back when it comes to sibling or friendship fallouts 🫣😢Do you ...
22/11/2025

It’s tough to know when to get involved and when to stand back when it comes to sibling or friendship fallouts 🫣😢

Do you think parents should step in during fallouts, or let children work it out and find their own way through? your thoughts in the comments 👇👇👇

⭐New Testimonial⭐Rupert was a ball of energy in our sessions, but engaged so well in the process and has clearly noticed...
21/11/2025

⭐New Testimonial⭐
Rupert was a ball of energy in our sessions, but engaged so well in the process and has clearly noticed a difference.

Read the full testimonial below 👇👇👇
"Vicki was brilliant from start to finish. When you need to call a therapist for your child it's very daunting and a worrying time. Vicki rang me that day and asked me through the process and how she could help.

We had an initial meeting with Vicki and my son took to her straight away. We had a 6 week programme and he is a much happier child.

He also knows Vicki's door is always open to him. Thank you so much :-)"

* Names changed for confidentiality.

Let’s choose kindness, patience, and love - even on the hard days. 💛
20/11/2025

Let’s choose kindness, patience, and love - even on the hard days. 💛

😒 On the Blog 😒 Did you know today is World Toilet Day?!Toilet anxiety in children is a common yet often overlooked issu...
19/11/2025

😒 On the Blog 😒 Did you know today is World Toilet Day?!

Toilet anxiety in children is a common yet often overlooked issue that can cause significant stress and discomfort for your child, but also can lead to a great deal of stress and worry for you as a parent too.

From fear of using public toilets, to holding on to urine or stool, or feeling overwhelmed by the sensory experiences of toilets, such as a flushing toilet or noisy hand dryers, toilet phobia can be debilitating for a child, fuelling anxiety for not only the child but the whole family too.

😔 And, like any form of anxiety, the more we worry for our children, the more it can fuel this negative cycle.

If your child shows signs of anxiety around using the toilet, it’s important to help them to break this negative association.

In this week’s blog, we look at:
😒What toilet anxiety is
😒How to recognise it
😒The problems it can cause
😒And provide some practical tips for you to try at home

So, head on over to The Parent Pad to read this week’s blog in full!

Take a read here: 👇👇👇

https://www.theyouthfairy.com/understanding-and-managing-toilet-anxiety-in-children/

Went to the dentist this afternoon and they gave me a Christmas keyring 🦷🪥🎅🏻If a phobia of the dentist is holding you ba...
18/11/2025

Went to the dentist this afternoon and they gave me a Christmas keyring 🦷🪥🎅🏻

If a phobia of the dentist is holding you back, get in touch and we can discuss how I can help, so you can go to your appointments smiling like me…and maybe your dentist will give you keyring too 🤩

⭐️ Did you know?The Youth Fairy offer a free 1-hour consultation to discuss your child’s situation and how we can help t...
18/11/2025

⭐️ Did you know?

The Youth Fairy offer a free 1-hour consultation to discuss your child’s situation and how we can help them regain more emotional control and feel happier, calmer and much more confident in a relatively short amount of time.✨

🧡 We passionately believe that educating children about their mental health is an essential part of the change process, so we will explain to you and your child how the brain works to create their specific problems and associated feelings, behaviours or symptoms.

🧚♀️ The Youth Fairy has a series of programmes that can help and inspire.

🧚♀️ We work with & help a range of ages of children from primary school age right up to teens & young adults.

Head on over to our website to find out more...

www.theyouthfairy.com

🧚💙 No Monday blues here!Pass it on and let's keep those Positive thoughts going... ✨
17/11/2025

🧚💙 No Monday blues here!

Pass it on and let's keep those Positive thoughts going... ✨

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