Young Person’s Services

Play Therapy

Play Therapy

For younger children, Couple Counselling Lothian offers play therapy. Trained therapists specialising in work with small children help them to explore their feelings creatively.  It helps the child to process extreme experiences which he or she may find difficult to process.  Dolls and toy figures, modelling clay, a sand box and paints are all used in therapeutic play to help the child.

Young children upset because of their parents separating can benefit from this service. Specialist practitioners also work with children traumatised because of domestic abuse.

Young People Counselling

The 11-18@CCL counselling service is for young people who are worried about their parents’ divorce, separation or conflict and/or maybe having difficulties with a step-parent.

Young people are particularly at risk when their parents are on the point of separating. In addition to feeling very unhappy, many children blame themselves for the break-up, and strong feelings can

be stirred up within the family. CCL believes that coping with parental conflict in adolescent years will help these young people to deal with their own relationship issues as adults.

The 11-18@CCL counselling sessions give young people the opportunity to talk to someone in confidence:

  • about the breakdown in their parents’ relationship, and how the young people feel
  • about being unhappy or confused about a family relationship
  • about any problems they may have living in a new stepfamily

Service users

Young people between the ages of 11 and 18 – can be referred by parents, teachers, GPs, social workers or family lawyers, or may self-refer.

Please contact us on 0131 556 1527 if you would like further information or text us on

Art Therapy

07982 064 179.

Art Therapy

Couple Counselling Lothian offers Art Therapy for couples to work with a variety of art materials, creating images as a means of exploration, reflection and play. Working with art materials can help clients express themselves and begin to tell their own stories. Standing back from their images couples or individuals can find new ways of dealing with feelings by seeing things from a different perspective. Clients interested in working in this way should contact Couple Counselling Lothian in the usual way.

This service can be used by adults, and older children as individuals or as a couple