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Programme overview

The EBSA Reset Programme

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EBSA Reset is a 6-week neuro-affirming coaching and mentoring programme for children and young people experiencing EBSA, EBSNA, school anxiety, shutdown or reduced attendance.

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The programme supports the young person, parent/carer and, where appropriate, the school to move away from blame, panic and pressure and towards understanding, emotional safety and realistic planning.

Programme aim

The aim of the programme

The aim is not to force a quick return to school. The aim is to understand what is underneath the distress and create a realistic reset plan that supports:

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  • Emotional safety

  • Confidence

  • Self-understanding

  • Parent confidence

  • Communication with school

  • Regulation strategies

  • Gradual reconnection with learning or wider life

Focussed child, calm, relaxed after EBSA Reset

What is included?

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EBSA Reset Core Programme includes:

  • Initial parent consultation

  • 6 weekly coaching or mentoring sessions

  • Parent guidance and reflection activities

  • EBSA Reset workbook/resources

  • Emotional regulation and confidence-building tools

  • Personalised EBSA Reset Plan

  • Final summary and next steps

  • Optional school liaison as an add-on

Optional Hypnotherapy

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Hypnotherapy-informed support can be added to the EBSA Reset programme where appropriate.

This includes one gentle hypnotherapy-informed session with the child or young person, plus a personalised or carefully tailored calming audio to listen to at home.

The audio is designed to support calm, confidence, emotional regulation and self-belief between sessions. It can become part of the young person’s wider EBSA Reset Plan.

This may be helpful where anxiety, fear, low confidence, sleep difficulties or unhelpful beliefs are making it harder for the young person to take small, realistic steps forward.

Hypnotherapy is only used where it feels suitable for the young person and with parental consent.

EBSA Reset Hypnotherapy Add-On: from £150

Weekly structure

Get in touch

If you would like to discuss support for a child experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance, please get in touch.

Week 1: Safety, story and pressure reduction
Understanding what has been happening and reducing panic, shame and pressure.

Week 2: Understanding the nervous system
Exploring fight, flight, freeze, shutdown and how anxiety shows up in the body.

Week 3: Triggers, masking and hidden stress
Looking at sensory, social, learning, transition and demand-related stress.

Week 4: Confidence, identity and self-trust
Rebuilding confidence and helping the young person recognise strengths and needs.

Week 5: Communication and support planning
Creating language, tools and strategies to help adults understand what is needed.

Week 6: Reset Plan and next steps
Developing a personalised plan for home, school, regulation and gradual reconnection.

Resources

Programme resources may include:

  • My EBSA Story So Far

  • Pressure Thermometer

  • Body Signals Map

  • School Day Stress Map

  • What People See / What Is Really Happening

  • Sensory Triggers Checklist

  • Social Stress Map

  • Demand Pressure Ladder

  • Safe People and Safe Places Plan

  • Green / Amber / Red Support Plan

  • Confidence Ladder

  • What I Wish Adults Understood

  • Parent Reflection Sheet

  • School Communication Template

  • Reasonable Adjustments Ideas Sheet

  • My EBSA Reset Plan

  • Relapse / Wobble Plan

By the end of the programme, families should have:

Outcomes

  • A clearer understanding of what may be driving the EBSA

  • Reduced shame and pressure

  • Practical tools for emotional regulation

  • A personalised support plan

  • Better language for communicating with school

  • Greater parent confidence

  • A realistic next step plan

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