Psychological therapy, tailored to you

From the moment of conception, the journey of parenthood is filled with ups and downs.

There are many factors that can impact your experience of parenthood, such as:

• Your own experiences of childhood and being parented
• Fertility issues or unplanned parenthood
• Miscarriage or baby loss
• Traumatic birth
• Postnatal depression
• Sleeplessness
• Changing relationship with partner or wider friends and family
• Behavioural changes or challenges
• Adjusting to separations from your child
• Child illness or loss
• Separation or divorce
• Children leaving home
• Fostering and adoption

Being a parent requires adjustment after adjustment. No wonder many parents seek psychological support along the way! If you’re finding aspects of parenthood challenging you might feel isolated, lonely, anxious or overwhelmed.

Psychological therapy, tailored to you

Here at Brightside we take an attachment informed, compassionate approach to working with parents.

You may become preoccupied with worries about your child, or feel that you’re letting your child or family down in some way. These feelings are very common and support and help is available.



Here at Brightside we take an attachment-informed, compassionate approach to working with parents. Forming and maintaining loving and secure connections between parents and children is key to good mental health, but we understand that sometimes events can occur

that make this process tricky. We offer friendly, emotional support and advice to parents.

We use the key concepts of Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy to develop skills and techniques to manage common parenting challenges, so that you can enjoy parenthood and be the parent that you want to be.