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Fears, Worries & Anger

What are scary feelings, the behaviour behind them — and what to do with them.

Build emotional awareness and resilience

Dive into self-awareness, mindset, and how our thoughts affect how we feel and act.

Coping Skills & Practical Tools

Learn playful ways to calm down and manage tricky moments. Create grounding tools, calming strategies and visual supports you’ll actually use.

Friendship & School Struggles

Gently guide your child through social ups and downs and tricky school situations.

Brain Basics Made Fun:

Learn how the emotional brain works (hello, Amy the amygdala!) and why meltdowns, shutdowns or fears happen.

Parent & Child Connection

Crafting with Purpose: Connect through meaningful arts & crafts that support emotional learning (including a Worry Monster you'll both love!).

Hello! So glad you are here!

I’m Anja, a child and family counsellor, and what matters most to me is that children & their family feel truly heard,
understood, and validated.
I believe feelings aren’t something to fix — they’re something to understand, and that families grow strongest when they learn about emotions together.

The Emotion Explorers Club was created to help more families access the kind of support I provide in my counselling sessions.
It’s designed to feel like sitting with me in the therapy room — supporting your child to understand where emotions come from, why we don’t always have control over them, and learning playful, practical ways to express feelings like worry, frustration, and anger.

Throughout this guided, therapeutic journey, your family is supported step by step — knowing I am right beside you as you
explore, learn, and grow together.

The program helps children and parents understand emotions and navigate challenges like anxiety, emotional outbursts, friendship struggles, school worries, and building confidence. It also supports children with different kinds of brains and ways of experiencing the world — helping families learn, grow, and understand each other together.

🌿 Our Philosophy

Your child is not broken.

Big feelings, meltdowns, shutdowns, anxiety, frustration... these are not signs of failure.

They are signs of a nervous system trying to cope.

Regulation Before Education

Children can only learn, listen and problem-solve once their nervous system feels safe.

We don’t correct first.

We connect first.

Your Child Is Not Broken

We don’t “fix” children here.

We help them understand their brain, their body, and their feelings — so they can grow confidence from the inside out.

Nervous System to Nervous System

Children don’t just hear our words — they feel our state.

Calm isn’t something we demand.
It’s something we model

Parent First, Problem-Solving Second

Parents are a child’s strongest co-regulator.

Before we teach strategies to children, we gently support you — because when you feel steadier, your child does too

Skills Grow Through Relationship

Regulation skills aren’t built through charts, consequences, or pressure.

They grow through:

shared language
playful practice
repeated safe experiences
small brave steps

How Change Happens Here

Awareness → Language → Practice → Integration

First we notice.
Then we name.
Then we practise.
Then it becomes part of everyday life.

The Emotion Explorer Club is a fun, interactive 10-week parent–child program designed for primary-school-aged children, approximately 5–12 years old, and their grown-ups.

It may be especially helpful for children who:

experience big feelings, worry, frustration or anger
find it difficult to explain what is happening inside them
become overwhelmed easily or have difficulty calming once emotions get big
struggle with confidence, friendships, school challenges or anxiety
benefit from learning about their brain and emotions in a visual, playful and practical way
have different learning, emotional or neurodevelopmental needs
or simply want to understand themselves and their emotions better.

Your child does not need a diagnosis to participate.

Rather than focusing on fixing behaviour, the program helps families become curious about what behaviour and emotions may be communicating.

Children learn simple, child-friendly explanations about how their brain, body and emotions work — including why worry, anger, frustration and other big feelings show up, how to notice their body's early clues, and what they can do when things start to feel tricky.

And importantly, parents learn alongside their child.

You'll learn how to look beyond the behaviour, understand what may be happening underneath, support regulation and respond with greater confidence, connection and practical strategies.

This isn't a course where your child is expected to sit alone in front of a screen.

You'll watch, talk, practise, play and complete activities together, helping your child take what they're learning and use it in everyday life.

Because when children understand:

“This is what my brain is doing.”
“This is what my body is telling me.”
“This is the feeling that's visiting.”
“And this is something that might help me.”

...big feelings can start to feel a little less confusing.

The program draws on evidence-informed therapeutic approaches used in child and family counselling, presented in ways that children can understand and families can actually use at home.

A little note about age

The 5–12 years is a guide rather than a strict cut-off. Children develop emotional awareness and regulation skills at different rates, so some children outside this age range may also connect with the program.

I particularly like adding that last part because your content is very visual and developmental. A parent of a 12-year-old who functions emotionally more like an 8–10-year-old, for example, shouldn't necessarily read “5–12” and think their child is too old for it.

What Makes This Program Different

💛 Children feel heard and validated
Your child learns that all feelings are safe and accepted — even the big, yucky ones.

🤝 Families learn together
Parents and children explore emotions side by side, strengthening connection and trust.

🧠 Child-friendly brain education
Complex emotional concepts are explained in simple, visual ways children understand.

🌿 Guided support throughout the journey
You’re supported step by step, with guidance from Anja along the way.

🎨 Playful, practical learning
Creative activities and real-life tools help children practise new skills safely.

✨ Welcoming of different kinds of brains
Supportive for children with anxiety, ADHD, autism, or emotional regulation challenges.

💛 What families often notice along the way...

Families who complete my counselling program often tell me they begin to understand their child in a completely different way — and children start understanding themselves better too.

You might notice:

🧠 “Now I know what my brain is doing!” — children beginning to understand their feelings, body clues and behaviour rather than simply feeling like they're “in trouble”.
💛 More confidence in being themselves — understanding that different brains have different strengths, challenges and needs.
🌱 A stronger parent–child connection — with more curiosity, conversations and understanding around what's happening underneath behaviour.
🌋 Earlier recognition of big feelings — children getting better at noticing when frustration, worry or overwhelm is starting to build.
🧰 A growing toolbox of strategies — with practical ways to calm, cope, problem-solve and ask for help when things feel tricky.
🗣️ Better words for what’s happening inside — instead of only showing you through behaviour.
🌈 Support for real-life challenges — including anxiety, friendships, school difficulties, frustration, mistakes and things not going to plan.
🤝 More confidence for parents too — knowing what to do during those difficult moments and how to support regulation rather than simply trying to stop the behaviour.

And one of my favourite things to hear from children is when the language starts becoming their language:

“I think my Amy is worried.”
“My Thinking Brain has gone offline.”
“Mad Max is starting to show up.”
“I need one of my helpers.”

What’s Included in the Emotion Explorer Club?

Everything is designed to be simple, practical and easy to fit into family life — without hours of screen time or overwhelming homework. Similiar as if you would come to a session at my clinic.

10 weeks of structured learning
A clear, step-by-step journey that builds your child’s understanding of their brain, body, emotions and regulation skills week by week.

Short, child-friendly video lessons
Fun and engaging videos that explain BIG concepts about the brain and emotions in a way children can actually understand.

Hands-on missions & activities
Weekly simple activities for children and grown-ups to complete together — turning what they learn into skills they can practise in everyday life.

Practical regulation tools & strategies
Simple strategies to help children recognise body clues, manage big feelings, build bravery, problem-solve and discover what helps their brain and body.

Parent-only learning & guidance
Videos and resources just for grown-ups, helping you understand what may be happening underneath your child’s behaviour and how you can respond and support them.

Weekly parent check-ins from Anja
A gentle email each week to help you reflect on what you’ve learned, what you’re noticing at home and what you can practise next.

Support from Anja throughout the program
You’re not simply handed a course and left to work it out alone. You can reach out with questions along the way and receive guidance when you need it.

6 months of course access
Plenty of time to revisit videos, repeat favourite activities and return to the tools and strategies that work best for your family.

And importantly...

This isn't a course where your child sits in front of a screen for 10 weeks.

The videos introduce the learning — but the real magic happens away from the screen, through conversations, play, activities, practice and connection with you.

💛 What families often notice along the way...

Families who complete my counselling program often tell me they begin to understand their child in a completely different way — and children start understanding themselves better too.

You might notice:

🧠 “Now I know what my brain is doing!” — children beginning to understand their feelings, body clues and behaviour rather than simply feeling like they're “in trouble”.
💛 More confidence in being themselves — understanding that different brains have different strengths, challenges and needs.
🌱 A stronger parent–child connection — with more curiosity, conversations and understanding around what's happening underneath behaviour.
🌋 Earlier recognition of big feelings — children getting better at noticing when frustration, worry or overwhelm is starting to build.
🧰 A growing toolbox of strategies — with practical ways to calm, cope, problem-solve and ask for help when things feel tricky.
🗣️ Better words for what’s happening inside — instead of only showing you through behaviour.
🌈 Support for real-life challenges — including anxiety, friendships, school difficulties, frustration, mistakes and things not going to plan.
🤝 More confidence for parents too — knowing what to do during those difficult moments and how to support regulation rather than simply trying to stop the behaviour.