Children | Anoshe Therapies

What we assess for

Infant and early childhood mental health, including the parent-infant relationship
Developmental assessment across speech, motor, play and social development
Attachment and relational difficulties, including after separation, foster care or adoption
ADHD assessment, and autism screening, with referral on to an assessor who can complete the diagnostic process
Anxiety, including separation anxiety, selective mutism and school-related fear
Mood and emotional regulation difficulties
Behavioural presentations, held as communication rather than defiance
School refusal and school-based distress
Sleep, feeding and toileting difficulties in the context of the family
Sensory processing and its effect on daily function
The impact of trauma, migration, family separation and racism on a young child

Play-based and relational individual therapy
Parent-child dyadic work using DDP and PACE, with the Roots vs Routes overlay
Occupational therapy for regulation, sensory needs and daily routines
Parent sessions without the child present, where that is the more useful room
Whole-family sessions where the difficulty sits between people, not inside one child
Multi-caregiver sessions, including grandparents and aunties doing daily care
School and kinder liaison, and reports for schools, paediatricians and NDIS

Developmental norms read against your family’s own expectations, not one cultural default
Behaviour read for what it is communicating, never through reward charts or consequence ladders
Racial socialisation support for parents: what to say, when, and how young is too young
Attention to where a child has been read as older, or more responsible, than they are