Manchester Children’s Therapy

What We Treat

Helping children navigate their emotions, build resilience, and thrive in a supportive environment.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD can involve unwanted, intrusive thoughts and repetitive actions or mental rituals. CBT, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), can help people explore how they respond to these thoughts.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Unwanted thoughts that cause distress
  • Repeated checking, washing or mental rituals
  • Seeking reassurance or avoiding feared situations
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Generalised anxiety involves excessive, difficult-to-control worries about different aspects of everyday life. Therapy explores the patterns that keep worry going and ways to respond differently.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Worrying about several everyday situations
  • Feeling restless, tense or on edge
  • Difficulty concentrating or settling to sleep
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Panic Disorder

Panic can involve sudden episodes of intense fear and uncomfortable physical sensations. CBT explores how interpretations of those sensations and avoidance can contribute to the cycle.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • A racing heart or a feeling of breathlessness
  • Fear of another panic attack
  • Avoiding situations associated with panic
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Phobias (including Emetophobia – fear of vomiting)

Phobias involve strong fears of particular objects, situations or experiences. Emetophobia is a fear of being sick. Therapy may include carefully planned, gradual exposure, agreed together at a manageable pace.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Strong fear when facing a particular trigger
  • Avoidance that restricts everyday activities
  • Distress when anticipating the feared situation
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Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)

Health anxiety can involve persistent fears about serious illness, even following reassurance. CBT helps explore how checking, reassurance and attention to bodily sensations can keep the worry going.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Frequently checking the body for signs of illness
  • Repeatedly seeking health information or reassurance
  • Worries about physical sensations that are hard to set aside
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Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety involves a fear of being judged, embarrassed or humiliated around other people. CBT explores anxious predictions, self-consciousness and the behaviours that can maintain these worries.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Worry before or after social situations
  • Avoiding speaking or joining activities
  • Feeling very self-conscious around others
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Trauma-related difficulties can follow distressing experiences and may affect a person’s sense of safety. Trauma-focused CBT may be considered as part of an assessment and individual treatment plan.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Distressing memories, nightmares or flashbacks
  • Avoidance of reminders of the experience
  • Feeling alert to danger or easily startled
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Depression

Depression can affect mood, interest in activities and everyday functioning. CBT explores unhelpful thoughts and patterns of activity, with individual goals and steps agreed together.

Get in touch if your child is experiencing:

  • Persistent low mood or irritability
  • Loss of interest in things once enjoyed
  • Withdrawing from activities or other people
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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing may be discussed where appropriate as part of an individual treatment plan. Availability is currently limited; please ask about suitability and current availability.

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What Clients Say

“Just wanted to thank you for all the help you gave me during a very difficult time. I sat and passed everyone of my GCSE's and I now study hairdressing at College. But most importantly I've got my relationship back with my mum”
Young person · Age 15
“We wanted to send you a thank you for all of the support and help you have given our son with his OCD. I honestly can’t explain how difficult life was becoming before our sessions with you. You have helped our boy to find himself again, not to live each day trapped in his repetitive cycles and actually have fun! We are so grateful.”
Parent of young person · Age 8
“My daughter was treated with upmost dignity & respect. I was involved but only when needed - she was the centre of all the treatment and decisions.The service is amazing! So grateful she received the help she needed to be happy and healthy. Thank you.”
Parent of young person · Age 12

Individual experiences of therapy vary.

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