CREATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Children's mental health support that meets families where they are.
Therapy, training, and clinician-designed resources for wellbeing, SEND, and neurodivergence — created by psychotherapist Zara O'Brien.
Trusted by parents, schools, and practitioners across the UK.
My Worry Space
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
Who I Am Below The Surface
When to use it:
For children whose outside doesn't match their inside — the masking, the meltdowns, the "fine." Especially helpful for neurodivergent children and children with SEND whose needs are easily missed.
How to use it:
Sit together, let your child lead, and follow their pace. Above the surface is what others see. Below is everything else.
What it helps with:
→ Separating behaviour from identity → Giving language to feelings that don't have words yet → Helping the adults around them see the whole child
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Noticing Nature
When to use them:
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
Support Planning Toolkit
We have a growing number of engaging psychoeducational mats available as digital downloads you can print at home, or A4 wipe clean mats you can use over and over again!
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
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