About the Practice
When a child needs somewhere away from home and school to say the hard thing, counselling can take pressure out of the family system. Edinburgh Counselling Service Children supports Edinburgh families with play-based and counselling-style emotional wellbeing support for children who need more than another conversation at the kitchen table. The focus is safer expression, stronger connection and practical understanding for the adults around the child.

Clinical Expertise
Counselling using therapeutic approaches including play, stories and emotion-focused conversation

Anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship pressure, emotional understanding and school/home stress

Play and story methods can support SEND children who need indirect ways to explore emotions

Why Work With Us?
Edinburgh Child Counselling Route: Parents can see the therapist role, membership route and safeguarding position before trusting someone with their child’s inner world.

Play Story and Talking Methods: Play, creative work and counselling-style support help children communicate through action, story, art, movement and relationship when direct questions only make them close down.

Parent and School Connection: Support helps children understand feelings without making parents the only place every worry has to land.