Welcome to The Best Beginning Child and Family Therapy

At The Best Beginning, we provide therapy for children from 0-17 with a specialized  service  for infants and children under 3 years old in collaboration with their parents. Our goal is to support families in fostering healthy relationships and emotional well-being.

Services

Play and Creative Psychotherapy 

Play and creative therapy offers a variety of means from Art to Music, Puppets, Drama or Sand Play to Messy, Sensory or Story Play. Ailish works with children from 0 (and their parents) up to 17,  adapting the modality of Play/ Creative Therapy to the developmental stage of the child / young person. Children are part of a family and therefore Ailish works closely with parents to provide a systemic family therapy approach bringing  her broad experience as a professional Social Worker also. 

Play is the child's language and the child's work. Play therapy provides the opportunity to express and also to make new connections in the brain, promoting healing and finding new ways to cope.

Creative therapy is also available to adults.

Therapeutic services to coeliac children and their families

Coeliac disease is a gastrointestinal autoimmune disease with physical and neurological symptoms however for children it can often be "silent" and present with emotional and behavioural symptoms as described below. Anxiety, agitation/anger and sleep disruption/difficulties, brain fog/ learning or concentration challenges, pica, ataxia and ARFID, fussy /picky eating, eating disorders, toileting and continence issues that are much less explored.

Clinical Supervision is available for Registered Social workers, Mental  health professionals  and Play therapists. Areas of interest include multidisciplinary team working, child & adult mental health, physical health & disability /medical and bereavement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What age range do you work with?

We specialize in therapy for children under 3 years old with their parent. (Infant mental health) but also work with older children and families.

Ailish has extensive experience  working with Children up to 18 and their Families.

Do you offer virtual therapy sessions?

We offer both in-person sessions for children and virtual therapy sessions to parents as and when appropriate.

How long are therapy sessions?

Therapy sessions typically last 40 minutes, but may vary based on individual needs.

Contact us

For inquiries or to book an appointment, please fill out the contact form below and our team will get back to you as soon as possible.

About us

The Best Beginning Child and Family Therapy and

The little coeliac therapist