Emotion Regulation Therapy Programme for Children With Anxie

Willow Therapy Farm is continuing their Emotion Regulation Therapy programme for children with anxiety in term 3.

Debbie Rowberry is a Child and Adolescent, Emotion Focused Behavioural Therapist, specialising in assisting Children with heightened anxiety and complex needs.
Scientific Research has determined that Child Specific – Emotion Focused CBT and Emotion Regulation Therapy,combined with Emotion Regulation Education is the most effective behavioural restructuring therapy for Children with high Emotional or Behavioural needs. Debbie ncorporated these findings, and in 2010 developed the Emotion Regulation Therapy programme which is both therapeutic and emotion educational, to increase children’s emotion resilience and address specific behaviour.
For Children with Heightened Anxiety, the programme identifies disturbed States of Being in key environments, such as school and at home, and coaches the Child on how to neutralise the disturbances within those environments. For Children
with Low Emotion Regulation skills and reactive behaviour, the programme teaches Emotion Regulation Skills.
Behavioural restructuring and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is applied to address non-productive or defiant thoughts.
Children exposed to trauma often have PTSD, resulting in overwhelming flashback thoughts. Therapeutic Guided imagery is used to detach the emotion from the memory and enable the child to easily apply tools to stop the bombardment of the thoughts.
Unique in the delivery, Children engage in fun activities, that increase a child’s ability to recognise and act on the stages of an Emotion Disturbance. The effectiveness of the programme is due to the implementation of purpose designed activities that have been developed over 30 years of Personal Practice. Debbie generates ‘In the Moment’ Emotion
Learning with the aid of her team of Horses, dogs, and the natural environment, whereby providing Children with real life experiences and emotion reactions to practice and ‘buy into’ the use of the Emotion Regulation Tools.
The programme is solutions focused, addressing the complex needs of the individual Child. Weekly updates from home and school ensures that current behaviour is being addressed during each session as well as addressing the underlying cause of the behaviour. Additional Sibling Therapy and Family Therapy sessions are also available if required, with support provided to home and school to implement the Behavioural Modification strategies and Emotion Regulation Tools.
The 50 minute sessions are held weekly and run per school term.
The Emotion Regulation Therapy Programme assists in a wide range of Emotional or Behavioural disturbances
including the following:
• Low Emotion I.Q
• Non- Compliance at school.
• Irrational Emotional Responses • Post traumatic Disorder Symptoms.
• Underdeveloped Social Engagement.
• Anxiety
• Chromosome Disease • Depression
• Exposure to Family Violence or neglect
• Self Harming
• Behavioural disturbances associated with ADHD,
ASD , ODD and CD
• Poor Emotion Regulation due to Exposure to Drugs
and alcohol Prenatally or Postnatally.
• Aggressive Behaviour • Low Self Esteem
• Grief and Loss
• Poor Concentration and inability to maintain focus.

Applications for term 3 are being accepted now.