My name name is Andrea Lindsay and I am a counsellor, psychotherapist, life coach and hypnotherapist. I have been in private practice for over 20 years working with adults, families and children. In more recent years, I have found myself working with more and more children and teenagers, until now nearly 70% of my client base are children and teenagers.  I work with young people helping them deal with issues that affect their everyday lives such as anxiety, confidence issues, OCD, self harm, eating issues and more.  I also spend much of my time working with parents, equipping them with information on the developing brain and providing them with tools to help them guide, support and parent their children.

Along with working as a therapist, I have been a therapeutic foster carer, often fostering very troubled and traumatised children. I am also a mother of 2 children, a step-mother of 2 children and now a grandparent of 2 children! The combination of my many years in practice working with young people and their families, my specialist training and the skills I have developed in my personal life, have provided me with a wealth of experience, all of which have helped me write this training course on Taking the Stress out of Parenting Teenagers.