Listen to Me (Individual work with Children & young people)

(a Family Mediation service)

This service gives children and young people a empathetic listening ear for them to express their anxieties, concerns and fears about any aspect of their parent’s separation.

Aims

• To provide a safe and confidential environment for children & young people to express their thoughts and feelings about their parents’ separation and to have their experiences validated.
• To support the children’s natural capacities to process and manage the changes in their families.

Children can have one or possibly more individual sessions with someone trained in child consultation, to discuss their feelings about their parents’ separation. A specially designed activity pack is sometimes used, particularly with younger children and preparatory and feedback meetings are held with parents. For children aged 7 upwards

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