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Wellbeing

Our ethos at Coggeshall Road is to facilitate social re-engagement using  a CBT informed approach to promote self awareness, guided self discovery and emotional well being. Our interventions focus on all obstacles that may prohibit valuable experiences needed to increase self esteem and establish a sense of self. 

When anxiety in young people becomes so heightened that living all aspects of life is impossible, it’s time to tackle the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that keep that vicious cycle of anxiety going. We provide the therapeutic environment to enable young people to learn about emotional dysregulation and effective, evidence based strategies that help to make life less overwhelming.

Our offer includes interventions that have been developed to provide a basic foundation for young people to learn about issues that impact on their day to day lives and personal functioning.  Importance is placed on collaboratively improving young peoples emotional well-being with close links to outdoor learning, art and music.

We offer a number of low intensity interventions including:

  • Anxiety – Knowledge and understanding, Ownership, Coping Strategies, Graded Exposure and Reflection
  • ASD awareness – rigidity of thinking, ASD and me, understanding the criteria and identifying struggles within that framework
  • Social Skills for Teens (Talkabout Alex Kelly)
  • Self esteem and Self care awareness and practise
  • Anger – Knowledge and understanding, Identify the problem, Coping Strategies and Thought Distortion
  • Bus – a visual platform to discuss intrusive thoughts, acceptance and a non judgemental mindfulness approach to recurring intrusive thoughts.
  • Unhelpful thinking  Habits – Social Comparison, Black and white Thinking, Mind Reading, Catastrophising, Negative Filtering and Emotional Reasoning
  • The Decider – a life skills program which is CBT informed and adapted for education.  It teaches 12 life skills to help with regulating emotions, tolerating distress, mindfulness and interpersonal effectiveness.
  • The magic Circle – (Think Good Feel Good) a CBT informed construct helping us to link thoughts, feelings and behaviours
  •  mindfulness and relaxation techniques

There are also some higher intensity (1 to 1) interventions:

  • Social Anxiety – What is Social Anxiety, What keeps Social Anxiety going, Negative thoughts, Avoidance, Behaviour Experiments, Safety behaviours, Attention focusing and How we appear to others
  • Generalised Anxiety (Worry) – what is worry and rumination, what keeps worrying going, unhelpful behaviours, beliefs about worrying, challenging your positive beliefs and negative beliefs, postponement in practise and coping with uncertainty
  • Self Esteem – What is Self Esteem, Self Esteem assessment and strategies, Predicting the worst, Self Worth assessment and strategies, Negative Self Talk, Accepting Yourself, Self Understanding assessment and strategies, Self Care, Self Responsibility assessment and strategies, Self Assertiveness assessment and strategies
  • Sliding in technique and shaping for selective mutism (Maggie Johnson and Alison Wintgens)
  • Sensory diet

Its important to hold in mind that a young person feeling too scared to try anything, is also feeling too scared not to, as they watch their world become smaller.  Together we can help the young person navigate the world and change the way they think about themselves, others and their environment.