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Counselling in schools · London
We are a small team of experienced therapists working in London’s independent schools. We see pupils one to one, run wellbeing groups for the 11+ year and for older pupils, support pastoral staff and work with parents, in a way that fits how each school already cares for its children.
How we can help
Most of our work happens in school, during the school day, with pupils from Reception to the sixth form. We also work online with students and young adults up to 25, and talk with parents and staff, so that the support carries on at home and in class.
Weekly counselling for pupils, wellbeing groups for a whole year group, and a place to think for the staff who carry the pastoral load. Funded by the school, by parents, or a mixture of the two.
Therapy for children and young people from the age of four, consultations for parents who want to think something through, and online therapy for students and young adults up to 25.
In school
No two schools are set up the same way, so each partnership is shaped around the school. The path is the same; this is it in outline.
With the head, the DSL or a pastoral lead, about your pupils, what is already in place and what would help.
Which days, what we will provide, and how it is funded, settled together with your pastoral team.
Safeguarding, consent, data sharing and confidentiality set down, and aligned with your DSL.
The school or a parent makes the referral. For pupils under 16, a parent gives written consent before counselling begins.
Weekly sessions of 30 to 50 minutes in a private room in school, with termly reviews that keep the school informed without sharing what a child says.
What schools say
I would recommend KST without hesitation. In recent years, it has been one of our most impactful pastoral strategies, significantly enhancing the wellbeing of both staff and pupils across the school.
KST has not only provided invaluable therapeutic support for individual pupils, but has also strengthened staff welfare practice across the school, offering colleagues expert guidance, reassurance, and a reflective space to discuss challenges.
Who we are
Our therapists have spent years working inside London’s independent schools, alongside heads, DSLs and pastoral teams. That experience shapes how we listen to a child, how we fit around the care a school already gives, and how we keep parents close to the work.
We work where children are: inside the school day, alongside the staff who know them, and with their parents. Whether a pupil is four or eighteen, we want the same thing for them: to be properly heard, and to have the adults around them pulling in the same direction.
Wellbeing groups
Small wellbeing groups for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils, run in school to help with the stress and anxiety the 11+ year can bring. Children learn how worry works in the mind and body, practise a few ways to steady themselves, and find the relief of discovering they are not the only one. The groups are therapeutically informed. They are not therapy, and they never become tutoring.
I felt less stressed knowing that other people think the same things as me.
Alongside the 11+, we shape groups with schools for older pupils: the move to senior school, the GCSE years and the sixth form.
From an anonymous feedback survey at the end of the group sessions. The whole of Year 6 at one independent prep school took part, more than 40 pupils.
From our library
The Parent Book is our library for parents: short, careful chapters on the questions that come up most often in our work, from sleep and friendships to the 11+ year and the conversations parents tend to put off. Alongside its 29 chapters are 236 quick tips, 62 sheets to print and 54 activities to do together, across 41 subjects. What the library holds.
Schools read it free of charge: every member of staff with a school email address can open the teachers’ shelf and send a parent the chapter that fits the moment. The parent reads that chapter in full, with nothing to sign up to. Parents who want the whole library subscribe for £129 a year.
Now reading: Volume I · Autumn I 2026/27
The film in words, on the page about The Parent Book.
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Tell us a little about your school or your child. We read every message personally and aim to reply within one working day. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
