Need further help?
If it is life-threatening emergency - call the emergency services.
If the risk is not immediately life threatening Follow the instructions on this landbot - it will calm you - help you collect your thoughts and allow you time to make decisions about helping your child in the immediate situation. Doing this activity will role model the calmness and control you want your teenager to learn.
When this crisis is over, get in touch with LOHA - we can support you to help your teenager through their mental health problems.
Our team has combined backgrounds from family therapy, psychiatry, research, education, design and technology.
Professor Alison Metcalfe and Gemma Bell founded LOHA in 2023.
Alison has spent 30+years working with families and supporting parents to help their children manage their mental health. As Professor of Health Care Research at King's College London, Alison undertook research and co-designed interventions with families to help them communicate difficult conversations and manage distressing emotions, which have had far-reaching impact and informed clinical practice, policy and research Globally.
Alison is now working with Co-Founder Gemma Bell, successful Health Tech AI entrepreneur to digitise the interventions and make them immediately accessible in families own homes.
Gemma says, 'LOHA provide a unique approach that is evidence-based, sustainable and highly accessible for all. It was life changing for me, as a parent, to understand that we can help our children if we are given the therapeutic tools to do so and LOHA is commencing at a time when the power of a more relational approach to therapy is increasingly being recognised'.
LOHA bring together a highly skilled team of Psychotherapists, NHS professionals, Schools, Family Therapists, Academics and Entrepreneurs and of course parents!
Our solutions are evidence based and proven to work – now it is time for us to share with parents, and society, a new way to help our young people.
