"7 week family therapy group for parents"

I was invited to attend this group and I am so glad that I did. The feeling that you are not the only one struggling with our young person's behaviour is very reassuring. The help and understanding that we received from Ursula and Dion was brilliant. It gave me a new way to parent and to think about my reaction to situations, how to look at things in a different way and choose different words. The OT Margaret, who attended two sessions, was fantastic in the way that she got us to see how the young people are feeling.

I think it is a really important course to offer. We are all doing our best and sending our young persons to different groups, OT sessions and counselling which they need, but this course is for the parent who also needs help/support/advice which is not so readily available. I have described it as a life line for me. The connections that the parents made were genuine and hopefully we will continue to support each other now that the course is over.

One of the main things to come out of all of this is that we all need to practise self care and to give ourselves permission to actually do it.

If anyone reading this is offered a place, please accept, I cannot recommend it highly enough.