SPACE can help with:

• Experiences of anxiety

• OCD behaviours

• Social Anxiety

• Emotionally School-Based Avoidance

I offer SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) - a parent-based treatment programme designed to help children and adolescents struggling with anxiety, OCD, panic, social anxiety, and school avoidance. Developed by Dr Eli Lebowitz at the Yale Child Study Centre, SPACE recognises the important role parents play in supporting children experiencing anxiety and focuses on working directly with parents rather than the children themselves. SPACE is also a meaningful intervention where neurodiversity is part of the family story.

SPACE helps parents learn how to respond supportively to their child’s distress while gradually reducing the accommodations and changes families often make around anxiety, such as providing excessive reassurance, modifying routines, avoiding situations, or participating in rituals. Although these responses are understandable and well-intentioned, they can unintentionally reinforce anxiety over time.

Through SPACE, parents develop practical strategies to increase confidence, reduce family stress, strengthen their connection with their child, and support lasting change. The approach is evidence-based and can be effective whether a child is already engaged in therapy or reluctant to attend treatment themselves.

Further Details: Hourly Sessions, £90 in West/South West London & Online