• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Anger management
• Anxiety disorders including separation, obsessive compulsive, & school refusal 
• Attachment disorder
• Body image & maladaptive eating
• Bullying
• Career guidance
• Challenging behaviours
• Child & parent conflict
• Communication difficulties
• Conduct disorder
• Confidence building

• Depression and sadness
• Emotional intelligence
• Emotional resilience
• Gender diversity
• Grief & loss
• Health relationship education
• Identity
• LGBTIQA+ community challenges
• Life transitions
• Mood disorders including depression, bipolar, cyclothymic, dysthymia 
• Mood regulation
• Neuropsychological challenges
• Peer & family relationship difficulties​

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)​
• Promoting independence
• Resilience building
• Self-acceptance
• Self-esteem & worth
• Sexual & physical abuse​
• Sexuality development
• Strengthening optimism
• Stress & coping
• Suicide vulnerability 
• Self-harm behaviours
• Symptom management
• Physical illness

Developmental milestone of identity: It is the stage that offers young people an opportunity to learn through interaction that is vital for healthy development.  We realise the importance of working with young people at such a pivotal time in their life. We aim to provide adolescents with therapeutic tools to strengthen self-worth and build resilience, self management and healthy functioning into adulthood.

Impact of COVID and Lock Downs: there is no doubt that we are seeing the impact on our beautiful children who were faced with isolation and a remote environment to learn from not just academically but socially.   The developmental tasks and leaps usually achieved in two years can be seen as almost being frozen in time.  Lock Down deprived many individuals of the natural social environments that offer life experiences of how to handle, experiment and discover who we want to be in the complex dynamic of belonging to a community.  it is almost like our children emerging 2 years later, without the emotional skills and resilience development at that time.   Our mental health team are acutely aware of the importance and benefits therapy has and is having on providing a avenue for our next generation to catch up on life skills and exposure to learn what has been missed.    

​At 4thought, we are passionately driven to support young people through this challenging and often confusing stage of development. With many years of experience working with children, adolescents and families it is a privilege to observe young people grow into themselves with confidence, while appreciating all that they have to offer as individuals with a sense of belonging within their family and to the community.