Founded by Zara O'Brien
Children's mental wellbeing doesn't only happen in therapy rooms. It happens at kitchen tables, in classrooms, on school trips, at forest school, in hospital waiting rooms, and at Saturday morning clubs. That's why I created The Children's Psychology Hub, to bring clinical-quality psychology into all of those spaces — through therapy, coaching, practical resources, and training for everyone in a child's world.
Whether you're a parent, a teacher, a SENCO, a coach, a forest school leader, or a days-out provider — if children are part of your world, you're in the right place.
Working With Me
In the therapy room, the classroom, the community hall, and everywhere in between.
Wellbeing Groups for Home Educated Children
These groups go beyond ticking a PSHE box.
Every session is led by Zara, a qualified psychotherapist, and draws on evidence-based approaches — mindfulness, compassion-focused therapy, DBT skills, and more — delivered in a way that's genuinely accessible, age-appropriate, and actually enjoyable for children.
The goal isn't just curriculum coverage. It's equipping children with real tools, real knowledge, and a real understanding of their own emotional world — so they can flourish whatever life brings them.
Small cohorts. Six weeks. Face to face and online. PSHE-mapped and clinically grounded.
Places are limited — groups fill quickly.
Mental wellbeing is a subject too!
Why families and professionals choose The Children's Psychology Hub
For Families
Clinician-designed resources and therapy you can trust — grounded in evidence-based models, session-tested, and made child-friendly before it reaches you. Proper psychological tools without the proper-psychology price tag.
For Schools & Educators
For Organisations & Providers
Classroom-ready resources and CPD training built by a working psychotherapist — designed to be immediately usable by teachers, SENCOs, and support staff. Practical, evidence-based, and made for real school life.
Whether you're a museum, charity, activity franchise, or days-out venue — we create bespoke partnership programmes that embed children's mental wellbeing into your offer. Clinical quality, designed for your setting.
MEDICAL NEEDS, DIFFERENCE & DISABILITY
Supporting children whose worlds include hospitals, diagnoses, and difference
Children navigating chronic illness, disability, medical procedures, or being "different" from their peers carry a particular kind of weight — and they're too often handed mental health support that wasn't built with them in mind.
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As a psychotherapist — and a parent raising children with medical and additional needs myself — this is the work closest to my heart. I create therapy and resources that meet these children where they actually are: in waiting rooms, before procedures, living with uncertainty, and finding their own kind of brave.
The library grows constantly, shaped by what I see in clinic — so if your child is facing something specific, reach out. I'll create a resource for them, or help you adapt one that already exists.
Mindfulness Tools
Noticing Nature
For school holidays, family walks, forest school sessions, beach school days, and any moment a child is already outside and needs help noticing they are. Especially good for children who find traditional sit-still mindfulness hard.
How to use them:
Two hand-illustrated, wipe-clean A4 mats — one for woodland and green spaces, one for the beach. Five activities each: grounding, breathing, gratitude, slow noticing, and a scavenger hunt. Take them outside, let your child lead, and use them again and again.
What they helps with:
→ Regulating the nervous system through the senses → Connecting children to nature in a structured, gentle way → Giving forest schools, beach schools, and families a ready-made mindfulness toolkit
For Schools & Practitioners
The Greenhouse Support Planning Toolkit
Child-led wellbeing planning - in their words, at their pace.
A complete support planning tool that puts children at the centre of their own plan. Using illustrated mats, weather emotion cards, and the FLOURISH framework, children explore their feelings, identify their strengths, and create a Flourish Plan in their own words.
🌱 Ages 4–11 · 🗺️ Two llustrated mats · 🌤️ 8 weather cards ·
📋 Flourish Plan worksheet · 🎬 Training video included
Talking Therapy for Children & Young People
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FOR CHILDREN & TEENS
A safe, consistent space for your child — child-led, creative where needed, and always attentive to the whole child, not just the presenting problem.
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Flourish News
Every month I share free resources, honest thoughts , reflective questions, and content that makes you feel less alone in this work and parenting world!
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