How it works as we ease out of Lockdown
I'm finding now as we ease out of Lockdown that children are relieved to be off zoom and back to face to face consultations. Mums too!
My therapy room (it's my dining room!) has double french doors onto the garden so the room is well ventilated even if it's raining outside. The dining table is a good size and easily allows us to work together and maintain a 1-2m social distancing. In good weather we can sit outside and stay that distance apart.
If you don't live near enough to come and enjoy my lovely garden and use activities like the sand tray and LEGO which are difficult to transfer onto zoom, then we work online. I've found ingenious ways to move activities online but I do think children associate it more with learning than they used to, simply because they've done all their homeschooling that way. With that thought, if you have to see me online I would suggest a different online platform and doing the session from somewhere they don't associate with school.
Sessions are still mum and child for the first appointment of 90 minutes and if this can possibly be done face to face that would be best even if after this appointment, the rest of the sessions (if you choose to continue) are done online.
During that 90 minute session, I can pick up language patterns and limiting beliefs that might be getting in the way of your child achieving what they want. Sometimes, that alone will sort things out, at least set them on the path to greater understanding of how their mind works and how they can get it working better. I can also teach you and your child some basic techniques to help overcome emotions that are getting in the way of them being relaxed and calm. After this session, I suggest what i think will be helpful ongoing.
In most cases, I might suggest we have four sessions of an hour to tackle the issues I have observed in the first session and of course the issues you will have raised with me on our initial chat and emails. Sometimes these will all be with your child especially if your child is secondary school age. However younger children often benefit from a longer programme of six sessions to enable you and I to have a first and last session to ensure that you are on board with the changes we are encouraging. We may also want to include a dad session, another sibling or a session for you and your partner together. I feel we need to work very much in partnership and lots of families choose to have a family session so everyone knows a bit more about how to communicate and express their needs within their family so that tempers don't get too frayed!
Time to Tap groups
Here is the landing page for the Time to Tap groups with all the information about my tapping groups. I do change the days and times so please check on the group page. There are separate groups for Primary, Secondary and Parents.
You can read more about tapping here
As we ease out of lockdown, I will be running more group workshops for tapping, art therapy and other activity based workshops for building confidence and resilience.
Face-to-Face Consultation
I see children, teens and parents at my home in Burnham, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL1 8NT (near Junction 2 of the M40 or Junction 7 of the M4). Here’s a picture of the room in which I see clients.
I'm finding now as we ease out of Lockdown that children are relieved to be off zoom and back to face to face consultations. Mums too!
My therapy room (it's my dining room!) has double french doors onto the garden so the room is well ventilated even if it's raining outside. The dining table is a good size and easily allows us to work together and maintain a 1-2m social distancing. In good weather we can sit outside and stay that distance apart.
If you don't live near enough to come and enjoy my lovely garden and use activities like the sand tray and LEGO which are difficult to transfer onto zoom, then we work online. I've found ingenious ways to move activities online but I do think children associate it more with learning than they used to, simply because they've done all their homeschooling that way. With that thought, if you have to see me online I would suggest a different online platform and doing the session from somewhere they don't associate with school.
Sessions are still mum and child for the first appointment of 90 minutes and if this can possibly be done face to face that would be best even if after this appointment, the rest of the sessions (if you choose to continue) are done online.
During that 90 minute session, I can pick up language patterns and limiting beliefs that might be getting in the way of your child achieving what they want. Sometimes, that alone will sort things out, at least set them on the path to greater understanding of how their mind works and how they can get it working better. I can also teach you and your child some basic techniques to help overcome emotions that are getting in the way of them being relaxed and calm. After this session, I suggest what i think will be helpful ongoing.
In most cases, I might suggest we have four sessions of an hour to tackle the issues I have observed in the first session and of course the issues you will have raised with me on our initial chat and emails. Sometimes these will all be with your child especially if your child is secondary school age. However younger children often benefit from a longer programme of six sessions to enable you and I to have a first and last session to ensure that you are on board with the changes we are encouraging. We may also want to include a dad session, another sibling or a session for you and your partner together. I feel we need to work very much in partnership and lots of families choose to have a family session so everyone knows a bit more about how to communicate and express their needs within their family so that tempers don't get too frayed!
Time to Tap groups
Here is the landing page for the Time to Tap groups with all the information about my tapping groups. I do change the days and times so please check on the group page. There are separate groups for Primary, Secondary and Parents.
You can read more about tapping here
As we ease out of lockdown, I will be running more group workshops for tapping, art therapy and other activity based workshops for building confidence and resilience.
Face-to-Face Consultation
I see children, teens and parents at my home in Burnham, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL1 8NT (near Junction 2 of the M40 or Junction 7 of the M4). Here’s a picture of the room in which I see clients.
Our first conversation is likely to be over the phone or via email, depending on what works best for you. I will want to get a good understanding of what you've noticed in your child, key events that could be relevant and anything about their early years 0-6yrs. We may decide for you to see me first, as sometimes I can help mums make changes that will make a difference with how you relate to your child. Your own limiting beliefs will affect them and have been passed down to them in utero and early years. Sometimes it may be that understanding their processing patterns will enable you to better communicate. The chances are that we will go ahead and book an initial 90 minute session for you and your child. This is to give us all a chance to learn what's going on and discuss how I can help, what we can work on and ensure we have your child's commitment to change.
This 90 minute session is fun and informative because children and young people find it fascinating to know how what's going on in their head affects what happens and by creating more empowering beliefs based perhaps on what they can achieve on the football pitch or in another area of their life, can be transferred to where they need it now. Mums have lots of 'aha' moments as they realise how their language pattern may be processed by their child who has a different language pattern and changes can often easily be made just in that first session. There is no obligation to continue after this session, indeed many families find this enough to make significant changes then and there. The Drama Triangle can be a huge learning I can tell you!
At least half of my clients though, continue to book four one hour sessions to work on specific agreed areas such as confidence, anxiety, friendships, learning improvements, sibling rivalry, stress, sleeping or eating issues etc. When your child or teen comes to me I create an ‘open frame’ where they can talk, play music, do some art and craft, play with Lego or walk in the garden. I don’t believe direct questions work well, so I create an atmosphere of trust and curiosity where they can think about what they want and how they can achieve it.
I am very good at picking up patterns of thinking, language and behaviour (NLP) and I can teach them some techniques that will help when they are out there on their own. Whatever the issue they’re struggling with now, I can help them because I know they have all the skills they need to find another way, a different way that will get a different result.
You may want to book a longer family session to introduce all the family to NLP. This is a great way to support each other, learn how to communicate even better and have some fun as a family. We will be drawing and clay modelling, role play, drums and rhythms and yes some talking too.
If you are not located in the U.K. and want to see someone in your own country let me know and I can arrange for you to see one of my NLP Kids Practitioners.
I have a couple of more lightweight, less 'therapy' type programmes for children who don't have a specific problem or those who need a more wide ranging approach. This also works quite well for children who don't think they have a problem.
Confidence and Resilience Programme
This is a led programme, it is not therapy. Your child or young person will be taught many NLP principles in an engaging and interactive way with exercises and questions, where they can use examples from their own life. They will learn:
Session 1
What is NLP?
Understanding how we process our world
What do we want?
What gets in our way?
Session 2
Overcoming limiting beliefs
Accessing the skills they have to overcome limiting beliefs
Accessing a resourceful belief instead
Managing feedback
Session 3
Confidence building through accessing skills
Anchoring a confident state
Grounding
Mindfulness
Session 4
Resilience
Fight/Flight/Freeze response
The Drama Triangle
Summary and how to take it forward.
The cost is £200 for the four one hour sessions. This includes a Skype meeting or phone call with parents before the start of the course and one at the end.
Suitable for children and young people of 8yrs+ as the content is led by their examples and adapted to suit their age.
Notes for the session are sent in advance so they can make notes directly on their workbook and so parents can see what we will be covering.
This 90 minute session is fun and informative because children and young people find it fascinating to know how what's going on in their head affects what happens and by creating more empowering beliefs based perhaps on what they can achieve on the football pitch or in another area of their life, can be transferred to where they need it now. Mums have lots of 'aha' moments as they realise how their language pattern may be processed by their child who has a different language pattern and changes can often easily be made just in that first session. There is no obligation to continue after this session, indeed many families find this enough to make significant changes then and there. The Drama Triangle can be a huge learning I can tell you!
At least half of my clients though, continue to book four one hour sessions to work on specific agreed areas such as confidence, anxiety, friendships, learning improvements, sibling rivalry, stress, sleeping or eating issues etc. When your child or teen comes to me I create an ‘open frame’ where they can talk, play music, do some art and craft, play with Lego or walk in the garden. I don’t believe direct questions work well, so I create an atmosphere of trust and curiosity where they can think about what they want and how they can achieve it.
I am very good at picking up patterns of thinking, language and behaviour (NLP) and I can teach them some techniques that will help when they are out there on their own. Whatever the issue they’re struggling with now, I can help them because I know they have all the skills they need to find another way, a different way that will get a different result.
You may want to book a longer family session to introduce all the family to NLP. This is a great way to support each other, learn how to communicate even better and have some fun as a family. We will be drawing and clay modelling, role play, drums and rhythms and yes some talking too.
If you are not located in the U.K. and want to see someone in your own country let me know and I can arrange for you to see one of my NLP Kids Practitioners.
I have a couple of more lightweight, less 'therapy' type programmes for children who don't have a specific problem or those who need a more wide ranging approach. This also works quite well for children who don't think they have a problem.
Confidence and Resilience Programme
This is a led programme, it is not therapy. Your child or young person will be taught many NLP principles in an engaging and interactive way with exercises and questions, where they can use examples from their own life. They will learn:
Session 1
What is NLP?
Understanding how we process our world
What do we want?
What gets in our way?
Session 2
Overcoming limiting beliefs
Accessing the skills they have to overcome limiting beliefs
Accessing a resourceful belief instead
Managing feedback
Session 3
Confidence building through accessing skills
Anchoring a confident state
Grounding
Mindfulness
Session 4
Resilience
Fight/Flight/Freeze response
The Drama Triangle
Summary and how to take it forward.
The cost is £200 for the four one hour sessions. This includes a Skype meeting or phone call with parents before the start of the course and one at the end.
Suitable for children and young people of 8yrs+ as the content is led by their examples and adapted to suit their age.
Notes for the session are sent in advance so they can make notes directly on their workbook and so parents can see what we will be covering.
Anxiety Busting Programme
This is a led programme, it is not therapy. Your child or young person will be taught many NLP principles in an engaging and interactive way with exercises and questions where they can use examples from their own life, from school, social and sports. They will learn:
Session 1
What is NLP?
NLP Communication Model – how we process in our own unique way
Setting compelling outcomes – social/sports/school – chunking down for SMART and chunking up for identity, values and purpose
Session 2
Resourceful beliefs and limiting beliefs
Karpman Drama Triangle – victim, rescuer, persecutor (the anxiety)
Positive intention of anxiety
Perceptual Positioning
Session 3
Logical levels of change – purpose, identity, values and beliefs, skills, behaviour and environment – aligning to achieve compelling outcome
Session 4
Tools
The cost is £200 for the four one hour sessions. This includes a Skype meeting or phone call with parents before the start of the course and one at the end.
Suitable for children and young people of 8yrs+ as the content is led by their examples and adapted to suit their age.
Notes for the session are sent in advance so they can make notes directly on their workbook and so parents can see what we will be covering.
This is a led programme, it is not therapy. Your child or young person will be taught many NLP principles in an engaging and interactive way with exercises and questions where they can use examples from their own life, from school, social and sports. They will learn:
Session 1
What is NLP?
NLP Communication Model – how we process in our own unique way
Setting compelling outcomes – social/sports/school – chunking down for SMART and chunking up for identity, values and purpose
Session 2
Resourceful beliefs and limiting beliefs
Karpman Drama Triangle – victim, rescuer, persecutor (the anxiety)
Positive intention of anxiety
Perceptual Positioning
Session 3
Logical levels of change – purpose, identity, values and beliefs, skills, behaviour and environment – aligning to achieve compelling outcome
Session 4
Tools
- EFT tapping
- Anchoring
- Grounding
- Mindfulness
- Yoga
The cost is £200 for the four one hour sessions. This includes a Skype meeting or phone call with parents before the start of the course and one at the end.
Suitable for children and young people of 8yrs+ as the content is led by their examples and adapted to suit their age.
Notes for the session are sent in advance so they can make notes directly on their workbook and so parents can see what we will be covering.
1.5hrs- First Consultation
£
125.00
1hr – Consultation
£
85.00
4 x 1 hr Therapy Sessions
£
300.00
4 x 1hr Confidence and Resilience programme for kids
£
200.00
4 x 1hr Anxiety Busting Programme
£
200.00
2hrs – Family
£
200.00
4hrs - Family (2hrs family session plus 2 x 1hr child/teen sessions)
£
300.00
Skype Consultation
You know what they say 'A problem shared is a problem halved' so connect with me on Skype and book a private consultation for you or your child. You will be amazed what can be achieved just using a webcam and microphone, I can help you or your child with your issue, teach you helpful techniques and recommend new behaviours to practice. My Skype name is judy.bartkowiak
Whatever your worry, whether it is related to your child or you personally and whether it is a big issue or more of a niggle, my clients tell me that I have made a real difference.
If English isn’t your first language or you’d like to speak to an NLP Kids Practitioner from your own country just let me know and I can recommend someone who I know and have worked with personally. Adult consultations are a full hour.
Skype consultations really suit children and teenagers because they generally feel very comfortable online and you can be on-hand if they need you for support. These are usually arranged as 30 minute sessions with an initial email or phone chat with you and a follow up email to your child just reminding them of what we talked about so they can practice the techniques.
You know what they say 'A problem shared is a problem halved' so connect with me on Skype and book a private consultation for you or your child. You will be amazed what can be achieved just using a webcam and microphone, I can help you or your child with your issue, teach you helpful techniques and recommend new behaviours to practice. My Skype name is judy.bartkowiak
Whatever your worry, whether it is related to your child or you personally and whether it is a big issue or more of a niggle, my clients tell me that I have made a real difference.
If English isn’t your first language or you’d like to speak to an NLP Kids Practitioner from your own country just let me know and I can recommend someone who I know and have worked with personally. Adult consultations are a full hour.
Skype consultations really suit children and teenagers because they generally feel very comfortable online and you can be on-hand if they need you for support. These are usually arranged as 30 minute sessions with an initial email or phone chat with you and a follow up email to your child just reminding them of what we talked about so they can practice the techniques.
Skype Consultation Cost
£
85.00
NLP Kids Programme
We run four and six week programmes for children covering a Junior NLP Diploma which introduces them to the core content of an NLP course but appropriate to their age so it will cover:
Costs vary so please register your interest using the Contact form.
We run four and six week programmes for children covering a Junior NLP Diploma which introduces them to the core content of an NLP course but appropriate to their age so it will cover:
- Making friends
- Learning styles
- Coping with fears and anxieties
- Raising self-esteem
Costs vary so please register your interest using the Contact form.
