Are you concerned about the mental wellbeing of the young people you support?

Are you a professional or parent/carer that would like to know how to best guide young people through episodes of distress?

Would you like to learn simple steps to help young people build vital coping, resilience and positive help seeking behaviour?

I’ve been there too. In fact, it’s why I developed this program. When I first started nursing kids, I was responsible for their safety when they engaged in self-harm, suicidal behaviour, aggression, violence and running away. I just didn’t know what to do and had some awfully confronting situations where restraint and medication was used. I met many adults who would say “I just don’t know what to do”.

This inspired me to find a new way, so I undertook a PhD aiming to understand psychological distress for young people and how adults can support and respond to them in helpful ways. My goal was to improve the care I offered as a nurse (and as a father of 3 daughters), but also to use what I learnt to educate and guide parents, teachers and other professionals who support young people to reduce the impact of distress on a young person’s life.

And now I want to share with you a simple process that I developed through thousands of hours of research and clinical experience, so you can guide the young people you support through their distress, and watch them become more focused and stop disrupting people around them.

You will learn easy ways to connect with kids quickly, so you can worry less about their mental health and help them prepare for everything life throws at them.

This program is designed specifically for adults that support young people and has been used to help thousands of adults better manage the challenges young people face every day and improve outcomes.

You will learn a step by step psychological first aid method on how and when to respond to young people in distress to achieve a positive outcome. I will coach you on how to connect with young people, help them to manage their anxiety, and help build their coping, resilience and postivie help-seeking behaviours.

If you are working with young people experiencing challenges with their mental health, you can use this framework to help guide them during episodes of psychological distress. Alternatively, you can also process in a preventive capacity and enhance your connection to support their overall mental wellbeing.