North Shore Child Psychology offers evidence based assessment and treatment to children, adolescents, young adults and their families. Treatment often involves working with both children and parents to make effective progress.
Services include:
- Telehealth consultations available
- Comprehensive assessment of emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Psychometric Assessments, including Cognitive testing and Academic Achievement
- Child-based interventions
- Parent interventions including parenting skills and coping strategies
Common challenges which children and parents seek treatment for include:
- Disruptive Behaviour
- Oppositional defiance and conduct disorders
- Attention deficits, Hyperactivity & Impulsivity
- Anxiety (such as Social anxiety, separation anxiety, generalised anxiety)
- Fears and phobias
- Depression
- Adjustment disorders, including coping with separation
- School adjustment
- Social Skills and friendship difficulties
- Teasing and Bullying
- Building self-esteem and resilience
- Loss and grief
- Life stressors