Family Support At Every Age and Stage, From Toddlers To Teens
Whether your child is just learning what feelings are, beginning to experience BIG feelings, or navigating the ups and downs of teenage life, we’re here every step of the way. Our family support is available from the playful early years to helping children SHINE through school. From tailored strategies for teens to trusted advice for adults, Sunny Kids Shine® grows with you and your family’s needs.
Children learn that we all experience a wide range of emotions and that any of us can find our feelings tricky at times. That’s part of being human. Equally, having a child who struggles for any reason doesn’t mean that you have done something wrong as a parent.
Focused Support, When You Need It Most
Pay-As-You-Need 1:1 Power Hour Sessions
Our Sunny Kids Shine® 1:1 Power Hour sessions are designed for parents and caregivers who need practical, personalised support whenever you need it, wherever you are, without committing to ongoing sessions.
Whether you are navigating big emotions, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, behaviour that feels overwhelming, school-based difficulties, neurodiversity, friendship challenges, or family stress, your Power Hour gives you space to feel heard, supported, and equipped with clear next steps.
Our Parenting Power Hour is a focused, one-to-one Zoom session offering flexible, pay-as-you-need support around your busy schedule. Get supercharged with personalised advice, practical tools and clear next steps you can put into practice straight away. You can also choose to receive a recording to revisit key insights and strategies as often as you need, helping you put everything into practice in your own time.
How We Support Your Family
Family Advocacy
As a family advocate, we play an important role in supporting parents and caregivers as they navigate complex systems such as education, health, and care.
We stand alongside you so that you feel informed, confident and heard, and so that your child gets the right support at the right time.
Ensuring your child’s needs are being met through the right support and necessary reasonable adjustments
Effectively navigating systems
Engaging with professionals
Meaningfully participating within meetings
Understanding your family’s rights and entitlements by providing information in an accessible way
Helping you make informed choices, express your views and wishes and advocate for yourselves
Signposting access to appropriate sources of support
Emotions in the Early Years
Big feelings can feel overwhelming, especially for little people. That’s why we offer child-centred, play-based therapeutic support designed especially for preschool-aged children.
Through storytelling, art, games, and imagination, we use gentle, age-appropriate approaches to help young children explore their emotions in a way that feels safe, natural, and fun.
Our ‘Feelings Family’ help children learn that we all have a rainbow of feelings inside, and that every feeling is okay. By understanding their emotions early on, little ones build the secure foundation needed to help them SHINE to school.
Making BIG Feelings Child-Size!
Our Feelings Detective® curriculum equips children with an emotional toolkit, fostering confidence, resilience, and contentment.
Children learn that we all experience a wide range of emotions and that any of us can find our feelings tricky at times. That’s part of being human.
The world of emotions is complex, but our award-winning programme has been therapeutically designed to help make BIG feelings child-size. Helping your child SHINE through school and beyond.
Helping Teens SHINE From the Inside Out
Growing up isn’t always easy, but we don’t want any young person or their family to feel like they’re going through it alone.
Being a young person today can be overwhelming. Navigating school, friendships, family, identity, anxiety, pressure… The list goes on. Sometimes it all feels too much and we get it.
We’re here to help your young person:
Make sense of what’s going on inside
Find their calm through the mental chaos
Discover their own light and strength
No pressure. No judgment. Just a safe space to help them SHINE again, from the inside out.
Our NAME Framework
Every Feelings Detective® session helps children and young people notice, accept, manage and express (N.A.M.E.) their emotions in safe and healthy ways.
N – Notice
Becoming a Feelings Detective®: spotting the clues in our bodies, faces and behaviour, and noticing how others might be feeling too.
A – Accept
All feelings are okay. Children learn that every feeling has a message, and that noticing and accepting it is the first step to understanding.
M – Manage
Building a toolkit of calming and coping strategies, from cooling our Feelings Volcano to filling up our Emotional Cup.
E – Express
Sharing our feelings safely and kindly, asking for help when we need it and shining our light from within with the people around us.
What Families Say
“Jodie was incredible. She worked with my 3 year old daughter and I to address anxieties around sleep and going to the toilet. Over the course of our six sessions, my daughter’s behaviour changed before my eyes. I developed the tools to help reframe her thinking and to support her worries, which - in turn - brought us even closer together. The tools Jodie gave us changed our lives and I cannot recommend working with her more.”
– Jenny, via Facebook
“Jodie helped my son through a bad patch where his anger was taking over all of our lives. Since seeing Jodie he is much calmer and now has the tools to manage his feelings. Family life is so much better, Jodie is fabulous.”
– Ellyn, via Facebook
“Couldn’t recommend Jodie enough. With her help my house has turned into a happy place again. We started on this journey by being recommended the feelings detective course. We saw huge improvements from this course… She gave us some amazing tips and strategies and we’ve seen such massive improvements. He’s now back at school full time and he won the class learner of the week last week for his amazing attitude to learning and hard work. We literally couldn’t be prouder.”
– Kimberley, via Facebook
You Don’t Have To Do This Alone
Growing up isn’t always easy, and we don’t want any child, young person or their family to feel like they’re going through it alone. Whether you need a one-off Power Hour, an advocate by your side, or ongoing support for your little one or teen, we’re here to help your family SHINE.
Book a FREE initial consultation to talk through what support would work best for your family.
