Psychology beyond the therapy room.
Because childhood happens everywhere.
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For children & young people
Understanding feelings, experiences and change.
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For parents and caregivers
Practical psychological support for real family life.
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For professionals
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For organisations & communities
Psychology you can use in everyday practice.
Creating places where children can feel understood, supported, and able to flourish.
THE CHILDREN'S PSYCHOLOGY HUB
Psychology for real childhood.
Childhood doesn't happen in one place — and neither should psychology.
The Hub brings together psychological support, practical resources, training, consultancy and research for children, families and the adults and organisations around them.
Therapy & Psychological Support
For children, young people, parents & caregivers
For children, young people, parents, caregivers and families navigating difficult experiences, change, uncertainty and loss.
The Children's Psychology Hub
Resources & Tools
Practical psychology resources helping children understand their experiences — and giving the adults around them something useful to do with that understanding.
Training & Consultancy
Psychology where childhood happens
Psychology-informed training and consultancy helping organisations better understand and support children, families and parent caregivers.
Projects & Research
Exploring real childhood
Research, writing and creative projects exploring children's and families' experiences — including illness, disability, difference, loss, identity, relationships and the places where childhood happens.
PSYCHOLOGY YOU CAN USE
Practical psychology for everyday childhood.
Child-friendly resources that help children explore, understand and express what can be difficult to put into words — at home, at school, in therapy and wherever childhood happens.
WHERE CHILDHOOD HAPPENS
What's happening at the hub?
Workshops, groups, events and opportunities bringing psychology into the everyday places and experiences of childhood.
Psychotherapist . Researcher . Parent Caregiver.
MEET THE PERSON BEHIND THE HUB
I'm Zara O'Brien, founder of The Children's Psychology Hub and a psychotherapist supporting children, young people, parents and families.
My work is grounded in a simple idea: psychology shouldn't only happen in therapy rooms.
Children live their lives in families, schools, communities, healthcare settings, friendships and everyday spaces. My work brings psychological understanding into those places too.
My work is informed by research, clinical practice and lived experience, with particular interests in trauma, bereavement, displacement, difference and disability.
I believe psychological support should be accessible, inclusive and grounded in real family life — helping people understand what’s happening, what they need and what might help.
Clinical practice × research × lived experience
FOR PROFESSIONALS, ORGANISATIONS & OUR COMMUNITY
Because every child deserves the conditions to flourish.
OUR APPROACH
The Conditions to Flourish Framework.
A practical framework for understanding and creating the conditions that help children and young people flourish within the systems, relationships and communities around them.
Real childhood is complex. The Conditions to Flourish Framework helps us think about what children need — wherever childhood happens.
Understand
Making sense of ourselves, one another and what we are experiencing.
Support
Having the right support around us, at the right time, and in ways that work for us.
Flourish
Feeling valued, included and psychologically safe to be ourselves.
Sustain
Maintaining wellbeing, support and positive change through everyday life.
FOR EMPLOYERS, PROFESSIONALS & ORGANISATIONS
Bringing psychology into the places where childhood happens
I work with professionals, organisations and communities to apply the Conditions to Flourish Framework to their own settings — helping them understand children's experiences, strengthen support and create environments where children can flourish.
Schools · healthcare · charities · activity providers · holiday providers · community services · faith organisations · visitor attractions · workplaces
Bringing the framework into your workplace or service
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Understand
Build a clearer picture of what people need.
Support
Create the right conditions for people to flourish.
Flourish
See the difference in everyday practice.
Sustain
Make positive change part of how you work.