When your child is struggling, you need more than a diagnosis - but searching for the right mental health support for a teenager or young adult can feel overwhelming.

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You may be watching your child struggle while facing long waitlists, stretched services and a system that can focus on diagnosing behaviour and managing symptoms - without fully understanding the person or the pain beneath.

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If you instinctively feel your child needs something more, you are not alone.

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Our Foundation

Teenage Toolbox was founded by Sue O’Callaghan, an experienced trauma therapist, clinical supervisor, educator, author and international speaker. It is built on more than 35 years of experience across prisons, schools, families, and private therapeutic practice in the UK, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. 

 

Since 2013, we have delivered over 20,000 therapy, supervision, and consultation sessions, including teenagers, adults, parents, couples, schools and professionals. We measure ourselves on results.

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Teenage Toolbox offers a different way forward!

 

What we offer:

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​Teenagers and Young Adults

We help young people understand themselves, regulate overwhelming emotions and develop healthier ways of coping.

 

Our work supports young people experiencing:

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• ADHD and neurodiversity

• Anxiety and depression

• Self-harm

• Addiction and compulsive behaviour

• Anger and emotional dysregulation

• Low self-worth and identity difficulties

• Trauma and Complex PTSD

• School refusal and educational difficulties

• Family or relationship conflict

• Risk-taking and challenging behaviour​

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Individual sessions are 55 minutes one-on-one (or globally via Zoom), with an initial assessment with Parent/s/ Carers.

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Parents and Families

When a young person is struggling, the entire family can feel overwhelmed.

Parents are often given conflicting advice while trying to manage behaviour they do not fully understand. They may feel frightened, blamed, exhausted or uncertain about what will genuinely help.

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We support parents to understand what drives their child’s behaviour, respond more effectively to distress and emotional dysregulation, and create greater safety and connection within the family.

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The aim is not to create perfect parenting. It is to give parents practical insight, confidence, and strategies that fit their individual child and circumstances.

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Sessions are 55 minutes one-on-one (or globally via Zoom).

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Couples and Adults

Unresolved trauma, attachment injuries, ADHD and nervous-system dysregulation do not disappear when we reach adulthood. They can affect communication, trust, intimacy and our ability to feel safe in relationships.

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We help individuals and couples understand the deeper patterns beneath conflict and disconnection so they can move beyond blame and begin creating genuine understanding, connection, responsibility and repair.

 

Sessions are 55 minutes or 90 minutes, one-on-one (or globally via Zoom).

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Schools and Professionals

Teenage Toolbox provides training, clinical supervision, consultation and education for:

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• Schools and education professionals

• Therapists and mental-health practitioners

• Health and community services

• Government and justice agencies

• Leadership teams

• Organisations working with young people and families

 

 

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