Our Philosophy

Transforming Emotional & Behavioural Wellbeing

When children are sad, depressed, angry, resentful or anxious they may either act out or withdraw.  Either way these are signs that a child's healthy inner core is blocked in some way.  Children are not born inherently naughty or bad, they often have trouble expressing what is going on inside them (despite their sometimes detailed account of what happened on the outside).  They often feel unempowered due to their age, power differences, relationship dynamics, attachment style, stress level, trauma history and lack of appropriate language to get support.  So children and young people often communicate to us through their behaviour.

Support for Parents and Professionals

As well as offering a therapeutic counselling service for children aged 5 to 15 years, here at INSIDE OUT Counselling Service we also believe that you, as the most important part of a child's world, can develop a greater understanding of how to help support children's, often challenging, but natural expressions of healing.  We believe that to do this an understanding of the following five principles are crucial to enhancing emotional well-being and respectful and connected adult-child relationships:

• Secure Attachment
• Non-punitive Discipline
• Healing through Emotional Expression
• Spiritual Connection
• Self Awareness