Highly recommended to parents and teachers looking for interactive, therapeutic online self-help materials
Dr Laura Smith, Consultant Psychologist, CAMHS; editor of Clinical Practice at the Edge of Care.
Taming Your Lion is a fantastic new programme for children and families looking for online mental health support, developed by the highly qualified and experienced team at Pocket Family Psychologist.
Taming Your Lion offers empowering and engaging support for children and families. Course materials are well-designed, interactive and entertaining.
The programme offers a useful resource for parents and teachers supporting children who may be struggling with anxiety, anger or relationship issues; for early intervention services; and for school-based mental health workers.
The videos and workbooks include fun and accessible content that is underpinned by evidence-based psychological research and practice.
Taming Your Lion is highly recommended to parents and teachers looking for interactive, therapeutic online self-help materials.
Invaluable resource to very many children
Dr David Trickey, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Co-Director of UK Trauma Council
Andrea combines her personal warmth and evidence-informed principles to guide a child and an adult through this programme that helps children to cope with strong emotions.
It is incredibly well put together and will no doubt be an invaluable resource to very many children.
Invaluable programme for children, families and professionals
Fran Thompson Advanced Practice Paediatric Physiotherapist, Whitstable Children's Physio
Invaluable programme for children, families and professionals working with children, navigating growing up in today's world.
It is easy to use contains wonderful language and imagery both visual and metaphorical to help make the intangible landscape of our emotions understandable. More than that it has easy things to do to move families through the challenges they are facing.
Most importantly for me it is clear that Andrea deeply understands children and the experience of childhood and that shines through in her wonderful gentle approach in these sessions.
Good mix of activities and visuals - fun, positive, safe, helpful and super easy to understand
Rebecca Cockerton, Primary School Teacher and mum of 7 & 12 year old children, Pilot tester of Taming Your Lion
All feels very positive and safe. Both kids and I liked the visuals. Good mix of activities, it kept you engaged. We all had a really good conversation about emotions at the end of Session 1.
Also, really loving the analogies. Bookshelf and balloon super easy for kids to understand - and adults too I think. A good reminder that we are not our feelings and love idea of having a bag of tricks. Silly songs are GREAT (brought a smile to our faces!) As are getting kids to think about what their superpowers are.
Vibrant, practical, interactive and developed from evidenced based approaches
Dr Paddy McNally, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Specialist in Trauma and Learning Disabilities
Taming Your Lion is a very vibrant, practical and interactive package that will help young people understand how their emotions work.
I appreciate how the content is developed from evidenced based approaches to help young people take control over their 'big emotions'.
an Opportunity to really think about my son's fear and discuss it
Mum and 10 year boy, pilot tester of Taming Your Lion
One great thing about this is that it gives us an opportunity to really think about my son's fear and discuss it, rather than it just coming in and out of our day as it usually does.
My son is enjoying the one-to-one time with me, with the focus on him and how he is feeling.
He really liked the interactive bits and the examples of other children struggling with big emotions.
I loved it! Very engaging and accessible
Lucy Willetts, Clinical Psychologist
The animation and audio is fantastic, really engaging. I loved all the things you need to click on etc, very interactive.
It is great to have an intervention that combines CBT and ACT types strategies for this age group. I would certainly recommend it to some of the families I see.
Fantastic! Engaging, fresh and professional
Dr Ananda Van Den Heuvel, Clinical Psychologist
It is fantastic! Very engaging, fresh and professional. I love the interactive graphics. It has a real science-y feel to it but is still light and accessible.
Fun and accessible
Robin Logie, Clinical Psychologist and EMDR Consultant
This programme would be really helpful for children and their parents/ teachers. It is fun and accessible, being presented in bite size pieces. The graphics are fab.
The knowledge received and guided practice will be of long lasting benefit to all who take part.
