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Zara O'Brien MBCAP GMBPsS

Zara O'Brien

Specialist therapy, family coaching, and clinician-designed resources for every adult supporting a child's mental wellbeing.

WORKING WITH CHILDREN & FAMILIES

Supporting children and families through the harder chapters

I work with children and young people directly, and with the parents navigating something specific alongside them. Two ways to work with me — find the one that fits.

FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS

Therapy

A safe, consistent space for children and young people to make sense of what they're carrying — through talking, play, and creative work. No threshold to meet. If a child needs support, that's enough.

FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES

Coaching 

Practical, guided support for parents (and their families) navigating a specific family challenge. Not therapy — focused, issue-specific sessions to help you find a way through something together as a family.

Looking for resourceswellbeing groups, or professional training?

Keep scrolling to explore all that my Children's Psychology Hub has to offer!

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Clinician-Designed

Everything evidence-based

Worksheets From £1.50

Accessible pricing

No Subscription

Just buy what you need!

Community led

Tell us what you want next!

Bestselling Resources

Most downloaded this month — clinician-designed, immediately usable

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Featured Resource!

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My Worry Space

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When to use it:

For children who carry worry quietly — who can't sleep, who avoid things, who need something to hold their worry in so it feels smaller and more manageable.

 

How to use it:

You don't need a therapy room. Sit together, let your child lead, and work through it at their pace. A quiet moment at home is all it takes.

 

What it helps with:

→ Naming and externalising worry→ Sorting what's in and out of their control→ Building a simple, repeatable coping response

 

Why this works:

Worry grows when it stays inside. When children can see their worry written down — sorted into what they can and can't control — the nervous system begins to settle. This is the foundation of cognitive approaches to childhood anxiety, made accessible for any child.

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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.

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Mental wellbeing is a subject too!

For Schools & Practitioners

The Greenhouse Support Planning Toolkit

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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

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Upcoming Events

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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