Parent Workshop Programme
The Parent Workshop Programme offers free 1 hour Mental Health workshops for parents and carers, offering support, advice and guidance on how best to support a child or young person's emotional health and wellbeing.
This programme offers families a range of one hour workshops, led by the Psychology in Schools Team from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). The Psychology in Schools Team is made up of clinical psychologists and senior psychotherapists who have worked in specialist mental health services.
Psychology in Schools Team (PST) Parent/Carer Workshops - Summer Term 2025
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child - Part 1 (of 2)
For parents/carers of under 12s, to provide more strategies to support your child or young person.
Thursday 24 April 6.00pm to 7.00pm (please also book part 2)
Book a place on managing anxiety workshop part 1
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child – Part 2 (of 2)
For parents/carers of under 12s who have attended part 1 of this webinar, to provide more strategies and tools to support your child.
Thursday 1 May 6.00pm to 7.00pm (please also book Part 1)
Book a place on managing anxiety workshop part 2
Supporting Your Child/Young Person with Emotion Based School Avoidance
For parents/carers of school aged children, we explore what Emotion Based School Avoidance is and how to support your child/young person.
Wednesday 30 April 1.00pm to 2.00pm
Book a place on school avoidance workshop
Supporting Your Child/Adolescent with Anxiety
Aimed at parents/carers of children and young people aged 12-18 to help them support their child to understand and manage anxiety.
Thursday 1 May 1.00 to 2.00pm
Book a place on adolescent anxiety workshop
Supporting your Child to Manage their Big Feelings
A workshop aimed at parents/carer of children aged up to 11 to help support their child to manage anxiety and other difficult emotions.
Tuesday 20 May 1.00 to 2.00pm
Book a place on managing their big feelings workshop
Understanding the Adolescent Brain: Supporting our Teenagers with Emotions
For parents/carers to understand the adolescent brain and how to support teenagers with managing feelings.
Thursday 22 May 12.00 to 1.00pm
Book a place on adolescent brain workshop
Supporting Your Child with Bereavement
This workshop will explore what grief is and how parents/carers can support children and young people when they are dealing with grief.
Monday 23 June 12.00 to 1.00pm
Book a place on child bereavement workshop
Tools for Managing Uncertainty and Building Resilience
This workshop introduces strategies that parents/carers can support their young people to use to help them cope better with uncertainty.
Tuesday 24 June 12.00 to 1.00pm
Book a place on building resilience workshop
Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 1 of 2
For parents/carers of children aged 12+ who have attended the PST anxiety workshop, to provide more information on support your child. When signing up for this event, please also sign up for a “Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 2”.
Thursday 26th June 6.00pm to 7.00pm
Book a place on anxious adolescent workshop part 1
Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 2 of 2
For parents and carers of children aged 12+ who have attended Part 1, to provide more strategies and tools to support your adolescent.
Thursday 3rd July 6.00pm to 7.00pm (please also book Part 1)
Book a place on anxious adolescent workshop part 2
Managing Changes and Transitions as we enter Summer Holidays (also known as Building Resilience: Managing the Next Steps)
In this workshop we will explore why change can be so challenging for our children/young people.
Wednesday 9 July 1.00pm to 2.00pm
Book a place on next steps workshop
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child - Part 1 (of 2)
For parents/carers of under 12s who have attended anxiety and/or big feelings workshops, to provide more strategies to support your child.
Thursday 21 August 6.00pm to 7.00pm (please also book part 2)
Book a place on building confidence workshop part 1
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child – Part 2 (of 2)
For parents/carers of under 12s who have attended part 1 of this webinar, to provide more strategies and tools to support your child.
Thursday 28 August 6.00pm to 7.00pm (please also book Part 1)
Book a place on building confidence workshop part 2
To find out more and book a place on a visit nsft.uk/workshops or go to Eventbrite and ‘follow’ Psychology in Schools team (PST).
If you missed a workshop or want to watch it again you can find all of our previous parent/carer workshops on the NSFT Mental Health YouTube channel
Please also see our range of childhood neurodiversity parent and carer workshops which can be found in the next tab down.
Recorded workshops you may find useful
Building Resilience – Managing the Next Steps
This workshop explores what resilience is and why it is important for our children. The first part of this workshop focuses on five key components to wellbeing and resilience and suggests practical support for our children in each of these five areas. By strengthening resilience, children are more able to cope with the challenges in life, including change and transitions. Part two looks more closely at transitions, and how to support children to build the skills to manage transitions, as well as discussing practical considerations when preparing your child for a transition. It pays particular attention on how to support your child through holiday periods.
View recording of this two-part workshop online.
PST Parent/carer workshop: Supporting our Young People with Eating Difficulties - Explores eating difficulties young people maybe facing, to understand the way food can be used as a coping mechanism in times of stress, what a parent/carer can do that is helpful or not helpful, and identifying what the red flags are to take action to get help. View workshop
PST Parent/carer workshop: Tools to Manage Uncertainty and Building Resilience in our Young People - For parents/carers of who would like to learn strategies they can teach their children to manage difficult thoughts, feelings, and situations. It is also helpful for professionals who might work with young people. View workshop
PST Parent/carer workshop: Supporting our Young People with Anxiety - For parents of school aged children to help them understand anxiety better. The session covers: what is anxiety, why anxiety, how it effects the brain, how it effects the body, how it impacts on what we do and don’t do and how parents can support their children/adolescents with anxiety. Anxiety in Adolescence YouTube webinar
Teens and Tweens Wellbeing Webinars - A series of 20 mini webinars designed for Teens and Tweens (Tweenager – children from eight years of age) by Dr. Tina Rae (Educational and Child Psychologist), covering advice on managing stress and anxiety, perfectionist behaviours and negative thinking. Watch the webinars on YouTube.
