From The Anxiety Project 

"A child's anxiety will not usually fix itself. Unless something changes, it will tend to worsen. However, the good news is that seemingly-modest interventions delivered by significant adults can make a difference and turn that progression around."

Michael Hawton -  MAPS Psychologist

TAP Student Lessons

Our classes have nearly completed their TAP lessons for 2025 and at all levels have learnt about their amydala and its role of processing emotions in the brain, particularly fear and anxiety. Children are learning how they can work to calm their own amygdalas by taking control and employing calming techniques.

Please see some of these calming techniques from TAP below:

TAP Parent Development Course

We wish to extend our thanks to all parents that attended our second TAP Parent Development Course session last Monday.

During this session we recapped and explored:

1. The difference between fear and anxiety
2. Brain development and how calming techniques can improve with age and strengthened with the right practice
3. What accommodation is and how patterns impact on families with children who experience anxiety
4. That change to familiy patterns may cause disruption, but usually this disruption is short lived and leads to improvement
5. The importance of sleep, limits on technology and radical downtime for all children

TAP Parent Information Sessions