Inside The Consulting Room - Understanding the Child Behind the Behaviour
I am a Chid & Adolescent Psychotherapist. The podcast are educational and orientated towards parents. We cover a wide range of sometimes, tricky subjects, in the hope of reassuring parents that no matter how hard things may seem, there are things you can do.
Thank you.
Kim
Episodes
153 episodes
Childhood in the digital world .The Disconnected Self
A child can be bright, polite, and high-functioning while feeling unreal inside. That quiet distance is easy to miss, especially when there are no obvious behavior problems, but it can shape everything from mood swings to shutdown to the famili...
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Childhood In The Digital World. Episode 2. Belonging & Connection.
Childhood doesn’t only happen in playgrounds anymore. For a lot of kids, friendship, status, comfort, and belonging now live in group chats, messages, and gaming communities, and that means a child’s screen can represent something much bigger t...
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The Digital Childhood. Episode 1. Are we asking the right questions?
Screen time advice can make you feel like the solution is simple: count the minutes, set the limit, take the device away. But if you’ve tried that and nothing truly changes, you’re not failing, you’re probably trying to solve the wrong problem....
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The Screen Time Evidence Gap.
The screen time conversation keeps getting reduced to a single number, and that’s exactly where parents get stuck. Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, opens this series with a blunt critique of the UK government-commissioned iStag ...
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Adolescent Criminality Is A Developmental Signal, Not An Identity
The scariest part of adolescent criminality is how fast a family can start talking like the future is already decided. When a teen gets suspended again, fights again, or ends up on the radar for drugs or threats, “lost cause” can start to sound...
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28:52
The Psychology Of Adolescent Criminality. Ep 3. The Unseen Child & Acting Out
A child can be fed, spoken to, and provided for, yet still feel unreachable inside. When that happens, silence doesn’t always stay silent, it turns into action. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I take you into the psycho...
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18:26
The Psychology Of Adolescent Criminality. Ep 2. The Adolescent Brain Under Pressure
Teenagers don’t wake up and choose chaos the way adults imagine it. They can tell you the rules, list the consequences, and even explain the risk, then still do the thing that blows everything up five minutes later. I unpack why that happens th...
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20:40
The Psychology of Adolescent Criminality. Episode 1. When A Teen Breaks The Law
The worst part often isn’t the offense. It’s the moment the phone rings and a parent hears, “Your child has been involved in an incident,” and everything they thought they knew starts to slide. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapis...
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The Psychology of Adolescent Criminality. Introduction. Rethinking Youth Crime
A single word can change a child’s life: criminal. Once that label lands, adults often stop asking “what led to this?” and start deciding “what should happen to them?” I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and this series begins ...
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Inside The Consulting Room. Episode 9. The Exploding Adolescent
He walks in without ringing the bell, drops into the chair, and hits me with: “Can we just get this over with?” From that first moment, I’m working with an “exploding adolescent,” a fifteen-year-old whose home life is full of conflict, whose sc...
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20:27
Inside The Consulting Room. Episode 8. The Child Who Felt Too Much
A child who cries “too easily” can leave adults feeling helpless, impatient, or quietly alarmed. We sit with that discomfort and tell the story of Amelia, a nine-year-old who arrives at her first assessment already in tears. The crying isn’t dr...
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9:14
Inside The Consulting Room. Ep. 7.Emotional Parentification The Child Who Carries The Family
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Inside The Consulting Room. Episode 6. Trust, Betrayal, And A Sixteen-Year-Old’s Guard Up
She sits with her arms folded, fists clenched, and every answer measured like it might be used against her. Ava is sixteen, bright, and polite, but she’s mastered a form of disappearance: no close friends, no family meals, no emotional risks. T...
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11:17
Inside The Consulting Room. Episde 5. Childhood Fear And The Need For Rituals
A child who can’t sleep, can’t relax, and can’t stop checking, counting, and repeating rituals is often labeled “controlling.” We tell a different story, following Liam, an 11-year-old whose compulsions and constant vigilance look like OCD and ...
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18:09
Inside the consulting room. Episode 4.The Invisible Child
A child sits politely on the sofa, answers every question, never argues, never asks for anything, and somehow still feels missing. That’s the mystery we sit with as we share Sophie’s story, a ten-year-old described as “a pleasure to teach” who ...
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Inside The Consulting Room, Episode 3. The Angry Child
A child slams a bag on the floor, throws a block across the room, and mutters, “I hate this place.” It’s easy to label that as bad behavior or defiance. Harder, and far more useful, is asking what the anger is protecting. I walk you through the...
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19:25
Inside the Consulting Room. Episode 2. When Helping Everyone Becomes A Hidden Cry
Emily is the kid everyone leans on. She helps classmates, comforts younger students, and props up her family at home. From the outside, she looks unusually mature and “fine.” From the inside, she is carrying an unmanageably large life, using co...
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11:58
In the Consulting Room. E[psode 1. Silence Speaks
A child walks into a therapy room and says nothing for fifteen minutes. No answers. No small talk. Just a pencil pressed hard into paper. That kind of silence can make adults rush to fix, label, or demand a response, but what if the silence is ...
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11:29
Inside the Consulting Room. Introduction. The Blessed Drink That Nobody Can Touch
A child keeps an empty drink container in the fridge and no one is allowed to touch it. Another won’t even open their can for weeks. Those tiny details might sound odd until you understand what they’re really about: trust, scarcity, control, an...
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10:40
Small People Big Lives
You can’t understand a child’s “behavior problem” until you ask what it’s trying to say. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I’m opening a carefully protected window into what happens inside the consulting room, without com...
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