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Mental health resources

Looking for practical guidance to support your child with their mental health? Here you can find a range of professionally informed tips, handbooks, templates and guides. 

Our easy to use and downloadable mental health resources offer practical guidance and support for you and your family's mental health. Scroll down to choose from the options below:

Find a sense of calm with our breathing exercises and animations

Download our breathing worksheets or simply watch along with our breathing animations. Repeat as many times as necessary to regulate your breathing, and gently reduce any anxious sensations for you and your family. 

Self-soothe box

When we feel overwhelmed and anxious, it can be difficult to ground ourselves in the present moment and create a sense of calm. Having a self-soothe box can help you to relax and reduce anxiety and panic, when things become difficult. 

Self-harm safety plan

Everyone has the right to feel safe. A safety plan is a tool for helping someone navigate suicidal or self-harm urges. We have put together a template so you can work together with your child to make a plan. 

Read the guide either by yourself or with your child to support you to use the safety plan. 

Download our template below. 

Parent's guide to managing intrusive thoughts

Read our parent's guide on how to help a child with intrusive thoughts. We have included a range of tips, advice and guidance including a worksheet that you can use together with your child to put their thoughts on trial. 

We have also included an example so you can give your child the strategies they need to challenge irrational thinking. 

Emotions wheel
Illustration of someone obtaining support for an eating disorder.
Emotions wheel
Stress bucket
A girl reading a book
Stress bucket
Gratitude journal
Gratitude journal
Feelings thermometer printable
Feelings thermometer printable
Box breathing exercise
Box breathing exercise
Finger breathing exercise
Finger breathing exercise
Rainbow breathing for kids
Rainbow breathing for kids
Worry jar
Worry jar
Emotions cards
Emotions cards

Book Spurgeons counselling for a child in your care

Our counselling team deliver exceptional work to meet the individual needs of the children and young people that are referred for help, to give them the tools to manage their mental health in the future.

We have face-to-face and online sessions available.