Islington Child Wellbeing Team

What is it?

Local Services

Service Info

Service for mild-to-moderate difficulties in CYP.
Direct work with young people or parents.
Support delivered by skilled trainees & CWPs.
Guided Self-Help with CBT approaches.

Here's more detail

Published: 23/02/24

As CWPs, we are skilled to deliver low-level interventions to children, young people, and their families, based on a type of therapy called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). We help young people understand their feelings better, using evidenced-based strategies. This means the strategies we recommend are supported by extensive research showing the help we provide is successful in helping young people and their families cope with their difficulties.

We deliver individual sessions to young people 12+ for mild-moderate difficulties such as anxiety and low mood.

For younger children (ages 5-11) we support parents through 1:1 parent-led interventions for child anxiety or challenging behaviour.

Who will children, young people and their families work with?
Trainee Child Wellbeing Practitioners
(Senior) Child Wellbeing Practitioners
A video describing the CWP Programme
A leaflet describing the CWP Programme

CWP Information Sheet 2024.pdf
712.97 KB, PDF
Workshop leaflets

The leaflets below describe some of the workshops offered by the ICAMHS CWP team for parents/carers. Dates for these trainings will be available soon.
Child Anxiety Workshop Flyer.pdf
348.29 KB, PDF
Child Anxiety Neurodevelopmental Differences Workshop Flyer.pdf
273.93 KB, PDF
Emotional Regulation Workshop Flyer.pdf
159.56 KB, PDF
Positive Parenting Workshop Flyer.pdf
996.46 KB, PDF
Sleep Workshop Flyer.pdf
175.99 KB, PDF
Understanding and Managing Anxiety in Teenagers Workshop Flyer.pdf
248.8 KB, PDF
Referral information

All SEMH / CAMHS referrals are processed through our single point of access.
For more information or to make a referral, please visit our SEMH page.
Please note: This service is for mild to moderate difficulties. When child is under 12, parent needs to be open to parent work. Both adolescents and parents need to be willing to engage with strategy-based support and have clear goals they want to work towards.

Meet the team

Lauren Hassan-Leslie

Counsellor & CBT Therapist, CWP Team Lead & Supervisor

Siobhan Kelly

Clinical Psychologist, AAOT Senior Clinician & CWP Team Lead

Rukshi Thevasagayam

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Fran Fiore

Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Ellie Tidy

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Andrew Moore

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

Ruth Venkiah

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Administrator

Oli Ekaney

Trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Eva Tsakali

Trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Kirsty Campbell

Trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner

Contact information

SEMH front door (new referrals and general enquiries): 020 7527 3355

Central CAMHS Enquiries (open referrals): 020 3316 1824

Address: 3^rd Floor, Northern Health Centre, 580 Holloway Road, London

Only a huge, HUGE thank you to our CWPs, who have genuinely transformed our family life and our daughter’s wellbeing.

Parent / Carer

We found the CWP service extremely helpful and will be relying on the guidance and tools shared for years to come. We are very grateful to our CWP and Islington CAMHS – thank you!

Parent / Carer

Many different methods were suggested for me to use to further help my son which I had never heard of before. Overall the service was amazing and a massive help to myself and my son.

Parent / Carer

I felt very comfortable with my CWP and she was very approachable. She really listened to what I had to say.

Young Person

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