About the Practice
When anxiety is showing up at the school gate, school-based mental health support can bring help closer to the problem. Portsmouth Mental Health Support Team Schools supports Portsmouth 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
School mental health support, early help, low-intensity interventions and parent/school advice

Anxiety, low mood, school worries, emotional regulation and early mental health concerns

Ask school about SEND-aware access, autism/ADHD adjustments and suitability

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

Early Help in Schools: 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 can help children practise coping strategies where school stress is actually happening.