Stella Sookun

Monday's and Thursdays face to face or online  in Waltham Forest E4 London.  Cost per session £70.00

My work as a Child and Young Persons  Integrative Therapist (7 - 26 yrs) is an attachment focused, trauma informed, relational and creatively based specialism for children and young adults in difficulty .  I really understand that some children and young adults can have big feelings or  emotional experiences that are impacting  their capacity to thrive as they once did. Alongside this, changing behaviour can seem confusing, challenging or ' out of sync' with siblings, family members or the relational environment of education.

I seek to build relationships that meet children or young people from where there they are today and specifically so  - taking in and responding to their developmental, emotional and relational needs in an inclusive way. I can offer child and young adults therapeutic interventions that integrate aspects of; talk therapy,  creativity (drawing and image making)  play therapy and age appropriate psycho education about stress, our brains and our survival responses to fear and safety. Any offering is always an invite and never a must or should.

Children and young adults are invited to express whatever is important to them.  Sessions travel at a clients pace, working  with strengths, rather than against them. The trust  and respect and co collaboration of sessions is  central to the healing and change based process that therapy can provide in critical phases of growing up and growing with our challenges. 

Sessions can help to; 

• Understand big  emotions 
• Rediscover  self esteem
•  Explore family changes/loss/ disconnection 
•  Feel clients to start to less anxious/avoidant of challenges
•  Learn about the brain and body (understand what's happening inside when things may go wrong)
• Explore relationships /family dynamic's
• Explore ways to manage academic pressures and imposter syndrome (throughout education settings)
• Start to notice unhelpful patterns or coping strategies 
• Feel hopeful and more motivated again 
• Start to process traumatic, scary or ambigous experiences
• Reflect on self/peer/ challenges of being at primary, secondary school or university
• Coaching and support of university students in /final year courses

Other avenues of support:

I  also offer therapeutically informed reflective spaces for parents, social workers, teachers,  carers of LAC, SlT, and trainee therapists - please see my website ( below) for more information.

  https://www.untoldstorieschildcentredtherapeuticservices.com/services

I offer an initial free 40 minute telephone/ zoom call to understand more about your inquiry and to assess whether I am the right practioner for your needs.