Got a child who has become more anxious or facing into the tween years of big emotions and feelings?

More and more young children are suffering from anxiety.

And in our fast-paced, digital and perfectionist-minded world, this is almost not surprising. But how do you are a parent or caregiver best help a child who has become more anxious or is suffering from anxiety? Learning just how better understand anxiety in children and how best to support and be present with your child or children when they are experiencing anxiety and its associated difficulties is so important. Dr Julie Meehan, Clinical Psychologist, Life Coach & Mummy and Dr Jane McEvoy, Senior Clinical Psychologist will host a workshop in Dublin in November and it will be an amazing opportunity for parents and caregivers of primary-school age children (4-13) who suffer with anxiety to learn more about how to help and what to do. This is what Meehan and McEvoy have to say about the event: "The workshop offers parents a mix of practical and mindful ways to explore how they can best support their children when anxiety takes over and begins to act as the driver of most of their experiences. In the session, we will explore evidence-based approaches that have been shown to be effective in empowering parents to better understand anxiety in children and how best to support and be present with their children when they are experiencing anxiety and its associated difficulties. We will weave a mindfulness approach into each theme we explore." Themes and evidence-based approaches that will be explored includes: A framework for how we can better understand anxiety and how it shows up in children How knowing more about the dance between anxious feelings, thoughts and behaviours can help us to support our children How best to work with Avoidance when it shows up for our children Self-esteem and how best we can nourish this in our children How we can support our children to approach common difficulties from a fresh, empowered place Navigating big over-whelming emotions Highly-Sensitive Children and Anxiety Enlarging our ‘toolbox’ of strategies to best support our children and ourselves when anxiety takes over