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With over twenty years of clinical expertise, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune shares her proven techniques that will enable you to better understand your relationship wit...
In this episode Joanna answers the most common questions that arise when someone is living within a blended family unit. She covers everythi...
In this episode Joanna responds to a listeners question about how to better understand their child's feelings about climate change. She expl...
In this episode Joanna talks us through the impact of the trauma on war on those who are arriving into our Country. It can be hard to unders...
Joanna speaks a lot about self-esteem and our young people but also parental-esteem. We know that self-esteem is something all children, reg...
In this episode Joanna is referring to a question posed to her by a parent concerned that their child withholds affection as they do not lik...
What do you do when your child tells you that their friend in school said they can't be friends anymore or if your child declares that someo...
Joanna is answering a question from a listener who is in a stand-off with their partner over what they should name their baby. Joanna explor...
Are you raising a perfectionist child? Were you a perfectionist child? Perhaps you are a perfectionist parent or you were raised by one? If...
This is the second part of our sensory discussion and this week Joanna is speaking about the lesser discussed senses of proprioception, Vest...
In this episode Joanna talks us through 5 of our senses, the ones that we will all be most familiar with Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, Hearing...
This week Joanna is talking about how we parents can be our children's influencer in a sea of social media influencers. This involves that a...
Joanna responds to recent tragic news events with some practical suggestions and guidance as to how we can find the words and means to expla...
Joanna responds to a parents question about how much time their 1-year-old should be able to play alone by talking us through the phases of...
Joanna responds to a number of questions she has received about how best to encourage our children to share and why does it matter? She emph...
Joanna tables the touchy subject of self-touch in young children. She talks us through how body curiosity in children is both normal and hea...
Joanna takes 2 questions from parents to explore creative ways to slow down or structure the Christmas hype for children and also how to man...
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
Joanna is taking a short break from recording so this episode is an excerpt from her 15-Minute Parenting series of books. Today's excerpt is...
Joanna talks about why joy and the experience of shared joy isn't just a nice experience but is an essential one as we grow and develop thro...
In today's episode Joanna talks to us about how to reflect on what is getting triggered in us by our children's emotional expressions. She g...
In answering a listener's question about how to respond to their child's nightmares, Joanna helps us to distinguish between a nightmare and...
Joanna responds to a listener who doesn't feel she is even a good enough parent. Joanna highlights effort over outcome, empathy over sympath...
Joanna responds to a parents distress at having discovered her 11 year old has been stealing. She helps us to reflect on what may be underpi...
Joanna responds to a listener's question about the frustration and relational impact of parenting when not on the same page. She highlights...
In this episode Joanna talks about changing our play content in line with the seasons and specifically how to play with the changing colours...
We may be only a few weeks back to school but this discussion on what school refusal really is, what it may be about and how to respond to y...
Joanna talks us through the importance of developing an intergenerational self, for ourselves but also for our children. She talks about how...
Following on from last week's episode Joanna shares a variety of fun activities we can use while we are sitting waiting, be that in a queue...
In this episode Joanna shares a variety of fun family activities we can start playing with our 0-7 year olds, 8-12 year olds and teenagers....
In this episode Joanna responds to questions from parents about how to handle their toddlers' behaviour in the lead up to a new baby coming...
Joanna gives us practical tips and tools for getting back to school ready with an emphasis on preparing our younger children for big school...
What do you do when your capable child takes a step backwards behaviourally? What about when your "big child" starts behaving like a "little...
As our societies (re)open Joanna responds to rising queries from parents about social anxiety in their children. What do we do when social e...
What is a family holiday all about for you? Did you know that the change of environment, increased time together as afamily can support your...
Joanna answers a listeners question about their 11 year olds behaviour on social media by giving us insight as to why it is so hard for this...
Joanna helps us to better understand the healthy (albeit challenging) role that ego-centrism plays in our pre-adolescents behaviour and how...
Joanna answers a question from a listener that came in after last weeks episode on sensitive children to help us think about the "self-holdi...
Joanna explains what it is like to feel the world in such a deep way and how emotional sensitivity can amplify our emotional states. She pro...
Joanna talks about self-esteem in our children and teenagers and how we can practically parent with esteem. She draws on research conducted...
Following on from a past episode where Joanna advised how to avoid jumping in with a fix/change agenda today she responds to a question from...
This week Joanna responds to your questions and comments on the topic of teen aggression and addresses the question of how the recent pandem...
Joanna reflects on the findings of recent research that highlights the role of emotional connections between teachers and students to enhanc...
In this episode Joanna responds to a question from a parent who is wondering how to tell their children that their parents are separating. S...
Friendships are very important in adolescence. In this episode Joanna talks us through how the patterns of friendship change during adolesce...
In this episode Joanna talks us through the psychological process of mentalisation and how we use this process to fill in the gaps of storie...
You are used to hearing Joanna speak about the importance of play in children's lives, well in this episode she is spotlighting the value of...
Joanna refers to a parenting event she did where she spoke about why our older children still need and benefit from imaginative play after w...
In this episode Joanna talks about eating disorders and disordered thinking around food. She focuses in this episode on the impact an eating...
Joanna has received many questions from parents about the fears and phobias their children have developed in recent months. In this episode...