Growing Pains

Managing anxiety: Joanna Fortune on the signs of an anxious child


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Child psychotherapist and podcaster Dr Joanna Fortune and ieParenting editor Irene Feighan sit down to discuss anxiety in children and how parents can best understand it. 


We are still seeing the impact of covid on children and young teens. Post-pandemic, Dr Joanna Fortune says she is getting more questions than ever from parents about anxious kids and has seen children a young as nine and ten presenting with anxiety. 

She shares how parents can approach the subject with teens and tweens and the signs to help recongise whether your child may be struggling with anxiety.  


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Growing PainsBy Irish Examiner