Dr Veronica Harris Child and Family Counselling Clinic

Specialist psychological assessment, counselling and support for children, young people and families on Sydney's North Shore and Northern Beaches.

Whether you are dealing with the everyday challenges of raising children or more difficult circumstances, we can support you and your family to become more resillient, better skilled, happy and confident.

The Child and Family Counselling Clinic offers assessment and practical strategies for managing a range of challenges:

Childhood related

• toileting
  sleeping
  eating
  tantrums
  making friends
  coping with change

Behavioural

• impulsive behaviour
  
• oppositional behaviour
  
• highly active behaviour
  
• hard to manage behaviour
  
• ADHD

Emotional

• sadness, depression
  
• worries, fears, anxiety
  
• anger, aggression
  
• poor self esteem
  highly emotional children and adolescents

Social

• shyness, selective mutism, teasing, bullying
  
• Family
  
• adapting to parenthood
  
• parenting support, parenting skills and strategies
  
• parental relationship difficulties, separation and divorce
  
• loss, grief, bereavement
  
• children in care
  
• blended families

Health and physical ability, body image

• chronic illness
  
• disability
  
• disfigurement and visible difference
  
• Learning and cognitive ability
  
• giftedness
  
• specific learning difficulties