ZARA O'BRIEN MBCAP, GMBPsS

Helping every adult understand and support the children in their care

Therapy for children
Consultations for parents
Training for the professionals
The Children's Psychology Hub for everyone

Because when the adults are equipped, the child can flourish.

SERVICES

For families. For professionals. For the children between.

FOR HOME, SCHOOL & CLINIC

The Children's Psychology Hub

Clinician-designed worksheets co-created with children, for real feelings. From £1.50.

FOR PARENTS & FAMILIES

Parent & Child Consultations

Space to talk through what you're seeing, make sense of it, and leave with a clearer way forward.

FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

Talking Therapy

A safe, consistent space for your child to make sense of how they're feeling — through talking, play, and creative work.

FOR PROFESSIONALS & ORGANISATIONS

Team Days & Speaking

I bring psychological thinking into teams across the children's world — from schools to hospices, leisure centres to HR.

FOR PROFESSIONALS & ORGANISATIONS

Training

Practical, evidence-informed workshops that change how you or your team thinks, not just what they know.

FOR PROFESSIONALS & ORGANISATIONS

Reflective Practice

A protected space for you or your team to step back, process the emotional weight of their work, and stay well while doing it.

The Children's Psychology Hub

PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL PROJECT

WHY THE HUB EXISTS

Psychological knowledge
belongs everywhere.

The Children's Psychology Hub is a psychoeducational project founded by Zara, a children's psychologist, with one goal: to get psychological knowledge out of the therapy room and into the hands of the people who need it most. Every resource is designed to be used straight away — in sessions, in classrooms, or around the kitchen table.

Whether you're a therapist looking for a ready-made tool, a teacher supporting a child with big emotions, or a parent trying to understand what's going on beneath the surface — you'll find practical, psychology-based worksheets covering emotional regulation, anxiety, self-esteem, identity, anger, ARFID, masking, and more.

Resources start from £1.50. No subscriptions, no fluff — just thoughtful tools grounded in child psychology.

TRUSTED BY:

Activity providers

Coaches

Parents & carers

Teachers & TAs

Pastoral staff

Foster carers

Play therapists

Arts therapists

Early years settings

Hospice workers

School counsellors

SENCOs

Best sellers

THIS MONTH AT THE HUB

The end of term is louder than you think.

Six weeks is a long stretch. By the time the Easter break arrives, most children are running on empty — and it shows. More meltdowns, more rigidity, more "I don't want to go to school." This isn't regression. It's depletion.

The break itself brings its own shift: routine drops away, expectations change, and children who hold it together at school finally have space to let go. That can look messy.

Our [Emotional Regulation] and [Big Feelings] resources are a good place to start — whether you're a parent preparing for two weeks at home, or a therapist sending a family off with something to hold onto.

PROFESSIONAL TOOLKIT · AGES 4–12 YEARS

The Greenhouse Toolkit.

Understand

Support

Flourish

Seeds & Soil — children map their strengths and what their environment needs to be healthy

Weather & Tools — children name how they feel and choose strategies that work for them

Goals & Support Network — children envision feeling better, in their own words

Child-led mental wellbeing support planning

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TCPH AMBASSADORS

The children behind
everything.

Every resource, every training session, every consultancy conversation is shaped by real children's real experiences. Our Ambassadors don't just inspire worksheets — their lived experience informs how Zara trains coaches, advises schools, and helps organisations understand what children are actually carrying.

Age 10 · First Ambassador

Autistic

Ava (and Dexter)

“When I worked on the Circus of Courage, I thought about the times I’ve needed courage — like being brave in the hospital, joining in at school even when I feel shy, or trying something new when it feels scary.”

- Ava, age 10

22q DiGeorge Syndrome

In the room.

When Ava talks about being brave in hospital, joining in at school when she feels shy, or trying something new when it feels scary — that's not just her story. It's the reality for thousands of children that the professionals I train and consult with need to understand.

Ava's experiences as an autistic child with 22q DiGeorge Syndrome directly inform what I bring into training sessions, consultancy conversations, and reflective practice groups.

Her perspective shapes the questions I ask organisations to sit with — about what courage actually looks like for a child, about what's behind the behaviour they're seeing, and about what it costs a child to hold it together all day.