Parent and Carer mental Health 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 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 and Carer Workshops - Spring Term 2026
Building Confidence and Managing Anxiety in Your Child Parts 1 & 2
For parents/carers of children or young people aged under 12. This is a two-part webinar and is delivered by the Under 18s Wellbeing Team part of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide additional strategies and aims to further develop understanding of anxiety, so that parents/carers feel more confident in supporting their children and young people.
Workshop dates
Book Monday 12 January 10:00am Part 1 Workshop (Please also book Part 2)
Book Monday 19 January 10:00am Part 2 Workshop (Please also book Part 1)
Supporting your Child or Young Person (up to age 11) to Manage their Big Feelings
As our children and young people grow, they experience many changes in themselves and the world around them. During this time, our children and young people feel a variety of feelings such as anxiety, which they do not know how to manage. We break down what leads our children to have these feelings and ways in which we can support them to manage if they become overwhelmed.
Workshop dates
Book Monday 26 January 13:00pm
Supporting your Child or Adolescent (ages 12-18) with Low Mood
Everyone has days when they feel low, this is normal. Sometimes this low mood hangs around for longer and starts to make it difficult for our children and young people to do the things that are important to them. This can affect their relationships with others. For us as parents and carers it can be hard to spot these difficulties especially among all the other changes that are happening in adolescence.
Workshop dates
Book Tuesday 27 January 12:00pm
Managing Exam Stress
A workshop for young people to provide guidance around exam season. It is very normal for exams and tests to lead to anxiety, stress, and worry. This workshop is designed for young people to attend to provide guidance around preparing for and coping with exam season.
Workshop dates
Book Monday 16 February 12:00pm
Supporting Your Child/Adolescent with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This session covers: what OCD is, how it affects and impacts children and young people, how
parents and carers can support their children/adolescents who might be struggling with OCD, and what further support is available.
Workshop dates
Book Thursday 26 February 13:00pm
Parenting and Anxious Adolescent – Parts 1 and 2
For parents/carers of children and adolescents who are aged 12 and above. This is two-part
webinar is delivered by the Under 18s Wellbeing Team part of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide additional strategies and aims to further develop understanding of anxiety, so that parents and carers feel more confident in supporting their young people with anxiety.
Workshop dates
Book Monday 16 March 10:00am Part 1 Workshop (Please also book Part 1)
Book Monday 23 March 10:00am part 2 Workshop (Please also book Part 2)
Understanding and Supporting Your Child with Emetophobia
This workshop for parents and carers will explore the topic of emetophobia, the fear of being sick or seeing others be sick. The impacts of emetophobia can vary greatly for one child to another. This session will cover what emetophobia is and how it might present in children and young people. It will then consider effective strategies you can use to support your child or young person that might be experiencing emetophobia.
Workshop dates
Book Monday 23 March 12:00pm
Understanding and Supporting Your Child with Tourette’s symptoms/TICS
This workshop, delivered by clinicians experienced in working with children and young people with Tourette’s/Tics Disorder, will provide information about Tourette’s and Tics in children and young people, dispel some common myths and give guidance on how you can best support your child/teenager as they negotiate the highs and lows of life with tics.
Workshop dates
Book Tuesday 24 March 12:00pm
Is there a wellbeing workshop topic you would like us to cover?
The Psychology in Schools Team (NSFT) are currently designing their workshop programme for 2025 – 2026 and would like feedback from parents/carers on what workshop topics would be helpful for them to cover. Your ideas will help inform future workshop content and delivery. To share your views, please complete this short survey. Responses are anonymous.
Browse recorded workshops you may find useful
If you are unable to make a workshop date you can view previous recorded workshops online.
