Judy Bartkowiak - Family Therapy with NLP and EFT

About me

It's unbelievable how much pressure kids are under these days and understandably we worry. If it's not bullying, it's low self-esteem or lack of motivation and depression. Mums and Dads don't know what to do or where to turn but you are not alone.

It may feel like it sometimes when you spend all day worrying about how they will be when you pick them up from school, when you wonder if you'll even be able to get them into school or when every time your mobile goes, you fear it's the school with a problem about your child or teen.

The first session with your child or teen will be an hour and a half in order to really explore what's going on for them, what they'd like help with (and it may not be what you expect although patterns do cross into different areas of our life) and I introduce them to some basic NLP principles. There will usually then be four one hour sessions with your child or teen as we work through creating new patterns and behaviour, new and positive ways of thinking and being and making adjustments as they try them out.

I like to have a session with you (and your partner if possible) because I can address any issues that may stem from your own childhood that may be getting in the way of making the best parenting choices. For example, if you were heavily criticised or had a limiting belief such as 'I'm not good enough' or 'I can't trust anyone' these will make it harder for us to be effective in our parenting role.Also, how you and your partner work as a team (even if you are not physically in the same house) will have an impact on how your child responds to you.

I use a number of different ways of working depending on your child and what seems to work best with them. Some like to talk, but mostly they don't! So by using art therapy, music, drumming, Lego, and lots of different exercises and games, we discover what's going on and how to make changes.

Where there is no specific issue yet you feel your child will benefit from a course of Life Skills, I recommend the four session Confidence and Resilience Programme which is extremely good for the transition to Secondary School. Similarly, the Exam Stress Buster course.

If you aren't local then don't worry, this work can very easily be done online through Skype or similar platform. Children and teens respond very well to this.

Weekly, I run Parenting chats on different topics from my home in Burnham and I'm looking to run these online as well.

I am an NLP Kids Practitioner Trainer and this course is done over four full days or 12 x one hour Skype sessions.

Judy Bartkowiak is an NLP Kids Coach, Trainer and Author of - Be a happier parent with NLP, NLP Workbook, Self-Esteem Workbook, Secrets of the NLP Masters and the Engaging NLP series of workbooks for children, tweens, teens, parents, teachers, new mums. I have published a couple of EBooks; Confidence for Kids and Positive Parenting with NLP.


I work from home in Burnham near Maidenhead (Berkshire) and from my mum's home in Hove (Sussex), from The Marlow Clinic (South Bucks), The Sunshine Clinic, Send (Surrey) and online using Skype.

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