Therapeutic physiological and mental health
Every family can thrive with support from Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny.
Through our therapeutic programme, we’re helping children and their families discover that fuller, healthier lives are within their reach.
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Every family can thrive with support from Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny. Through our therapeutic programme, we’re helping children and their families discover that fuller, healthier lives are within their reach.
You’ve been on NHS waiting lists for months.
OR
Your child’s struggle with any number of physical or mental health issues is affecting school, friendships, and your family dynamic.
The medications aren’t working, or worse, they’re causing side effects that make daily life even harder.
You feel trapped, fighting the same battles, day in and day out.
You’re not alone, and there is hope.
We provide the therapeutic interventions your family needs, combining cutting-edge technology with compassionate, individualised care.
Comprehensive Testing
We can provide a comprehensive panel of blood work, genetic testing, brain mapping, oral microbiome analysis, and nutritional analysis to help us understand any environmental and physical factors that may be affecting your child’s health and development.
Tools
Brain training can help retrain your physiological senses, promote emotional well-being, and response regulation. We utilise passive photobiomodulation, as well as participatory neuro and biofeedback, to help retrain our bodies and minds to respond to stimuli more effectively.
Mental Health Therapies
Integrative psychotherapy can be used to address underlying emotional challenges and support whole family healing.Talking about our hurt and misunderstandings can help us heal and clarify our feelings.
Training
We bring the family together to learn more about how breath, diet, and sleep hygiene can radically change the stress levels of everyday life. We’ll show you what to do and support you through making tiny changes with big impact.
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Trauma Informed
We offer a compassionate, individualised approach to support children in processing trauma, developing emotional regulation skills, building self-esteem, and strengthening social connections. Our work also empowers families to better understand and advocate for their child’s unique needs while honouring each child’s authentic self rather than promoting conformity to external expectations.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which delivers high concentrations of oxygen under increased atmospheric pressure, has been shown to enhance cerebral blood flow, reduce neuroinflammation, and support mitochondrial activity. These physiological effects may help optimise cellular metabolism, improve regulation of oxidative stress, and promote overall neurological and systemic function in children presenting with diverse physiological symptoms.
Physiological Understanding
. By identifying areas where connectivity is disrupted or inefficient, qEEG helps clinicians design personalised neurofeedback protocols that directly target the underlying neural imbalances. This tailored approach can support improvements in attention and concentration, emotional regulation and stress resilience, learning and memory, sleep quality, impulse control, and social functioning.
Brain Training
Neurofeedback is a non-invasive training method that helps the brain learn to function more calmly and efficiently. By providing real-time feedback on brain activity, it encourages healthier patterns of neural communication. Over time, this process can strengthen emotional regulation, enhance focus and attention, improve communication and social interaction skills, support better sleep, and reduce challenging or disruptive behaviours and much more.
Therapeutic Strength
By enhancing cellular energy, cerebral blood flow, and neuroplasticity, it helps the brain work more efficiently while reducing inflammation and oxidative stress. For children and young people, this can support improvements in attention, learning, emotional regulation, sleep, and social interaction. The device also has wider applications in brain health, from aiding recovery after injury to reducing brain fog and supporting mood.
Buteyko Breathing Method
The Buteyko Breathing Method can reduce stress responses, improve sleep quality, sharpen focus, and support emotional regulation. For children, it also offers practical self-regulation tools they can use independently during moments of anxiety, panic attacks, overwhelm, asthma or other challenging situations.
Sleep Hygiene
Evidence-based strategies such as consistent bedtime routines, morning light exposure, and reduced evening screen time help align this rhythm, supporting natural melatonin production and promoting deeper, more restorative sleep. In turn, these practices can ease anxiety, improve mood stability, and enhance daytime focus, not only benefiting children but also improving sleep quality and overall well-being for the entire family.
Food Science & Sensitivities
By reducing inflammation and identifying food sensitivities, nutritional therapy helps create a healthier internal environment, while carefully chosen nutrients support optimal brain function, emotional regulation, and sustained focus. This approach also addresses common gastrointestinal challenges, promoting better digestion, nutrient absorption, and overall well-being.
Trying to understand what the best combination of therapies and support are right for your family can be overwhelming. We’re here to help.