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Understanding Your Child’s Emotional World Is the First Step Toward Healthy Development.
At ÇADEM Psychology, we use evidence-based counselling methods to support children’s emotional, social and cognitive development, guiding them to grow into secure, happy and well-adjusted individuals.
What is child counseling?
Child counselling is a professional counselling process aimed at understanding, assessing and resolving difficulties that arise during children’s emotional, social, behavioural and cognitive development.
The aim of this process is not merely to resolve the current problem, but also to enhance the child’s emotional awareness, support their self-confidence and ensure they continue on a healthy developmental journey.
At ÇADEM Psychology, every child is assessed according to their individual differences. Science-based approaches such as play counselling, experiential play therapy, child-centred play therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, art therapy and emotional awareness exercises are adapted to the child’s age, developmental level and needs.
In What Situations
Should One Seek Child Counseling?
Every child may experience emotional ups and downs or changes in behaviour from time to time. However, in some cases, these changes begin to have a negative impact on daily functioning, academic performance or social relationships.
At this point, seeking support from a professional can help the child regain their inner balance.
Common Areas of Child Counseling:
- Separation anxiety (difficulty being away from parents)
- Social anxiety (excessive shyness around friends, fear of performing)
- Specific phobias (darkness, animals, being alone, loud noises, etc.)
- Excessive worry, controlling behaviours or physical tension
- Psychosomatic symptoms such as refusing to go to school, nausea or stomach ache
- Constantly appearing sad, tired or listless
- Low self-esteem, feelings of worthlessness or statements such as “I can’t do it”
- Changes in sleep and appetite
- Frequent crying, withdrawal or aggressive outbursts
- Disobedience, stubbornness, excessive defiance
- Aggression, hitting, shouting or throwing objects
- Difficulties with impulse control, impatience
- Constant conflict with authority (particularly in a school setting)
- Lack of empathy or failure to recognise social boundaries
- Difficulty sustaining attention, easily distracted
- Constant restlessness, inability to sit still
- Forgetfulness, acting impulsively, speaking or reacting without thinking
- Struggling to complete homework and tasks
- Lagging behind peers in reading, writing or maths
- Reluctance to study or a rapid loss of motivation
- Exam anxiety, perfectionism or fear of making mistakes
- Learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyscalculia)
- Difficulty adjusting to parental separation or divorce
- Excessive dependence on or withdrawal from a parent
- Sibling jealousy, reaction to a new sibling
- Sensitivity to sudden changes such as bereavement, loss or moving house
- Excessive need for approval, constant comparison
- Fear of making mistakes, avoidance of taking risks
- Being subjected to or engaging in peer bullying
- Outbursts of anger or uncontrolled behaviour within a group
- Difficulty sleeping, nightmares, bedwetting
- Refusal to eat, selective eating or overeating behaviours, tics
- Sexual issues and masturbation
- Enuresis, encopresis (faecal incontinence)
- Lying, nail-biting, thumb-sucking
- Substance abuse, stealing behaviour (kleptomania)
- Computer addiction
- OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
- Problems with the opposite sex
- Report card anxiety
- The concept of death and separation anxiety in children
- The ‘terrible twos’