Yvonne has worked closely with many parents, supporting children with mild to severe mental health issues in both private child psychology clinics and public child mental health services. Yvonne has also completed additional perinatal mental health training with the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE).
Yvonne is passionate about supporting parents to find meaning and enjoyment in the parenting role and to support parents to find a style of parenting that is in line with their personal values and philosophies.
Some examples of how Yvonne can support:
• Building parenting confidence
• Improving parent-child communication, connection and relationships
• Managing parenting stress/burnout
• Understanding triggers and the impact of historical/childhood trauma
• Managing parenting through separation
• Children and Adolescents with anxiety (commonly Social, Separation, Panic Attacks, Phobias and OCD)
• Children and Adolescents with low mood and self harming
• Children and Adolescents struggling with school refusal and non-attendance
• Children and Adolescents with behavioural and emotional regulation difficulties