Children

Helping children feel safe, understood, and capable

Children often communicate distress through behaviour, emotions, play, or withdrawal — not words. At Your Space Collective, we focus on helping children feel safe enough to explore, regulate, and grow, while working with parents to support their child.

A child could benefit from support if they are:

  • Regularly feeling anxious, worried, or sad
  • Struggling to manage anger or frustration
  • Finding it hard to get along with other children or make friends
  • Having sleep difficulties, ongoing aches or pains, or fatigue
  • Experiencing challenges with routines, organisation, or behaviour
  • Showing signs of low self-esteem
  • Experiencing difficulties at daycare/preschool/school
  • Managing neurodevelopmental differences such as ADHD or autism
  • Experiencing difficulties with adjustment or life transitions (e.g. relocation, grief, parental separation etc)

Individual therapeutic support for children may include:

  • Developmentally appropriate, evidence-based therapy
  • Play-based and relationship-based interventions
  • Emotion regulation and nervous system support
  • Strength-based approaches that reduce shame
  • Parent–child sessions to build connection and understanding
  • Collaboration with parents, schools, and other supports where appropriate

“When we support children early, we’re supporting the way their brains learn to regulate, relate, and cope—creating foundations that can benefit them for years to come.”

Dr Natasha Herron (formerly Dr Natasha Perry)

CF, DClinHealthPsych, BPsych (Hons), AAPi, AIPA, MAPS

FOUNDER / SENIOR CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST

Dr Natasha Herron is a Senior Clinical and Health Psychologist with a deep commitment to early intervention and transdiagnostic care. With 20 years of industry experience across public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Natasha has supported many children, young people, adults and families with the skills they need to make meaningful changes to their lives.

Contact us

Dr Natasha Herron offers her telehealth services from the Newcastle (Awabakal) region.

Her business days are Monday and Wednesday.

Please phone 0497 210 079 with any queries.

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