​​https://solihullapproachparenting.com is an NHS service which was established in 1996 and parents anywhere can access it online. The organisation was first developed by health visitors and is now also staffed by clinical psychologists and other professionals. They provide information for parents with children of all ages up to 18. They provide online resource packs, accessible through their parent portal https://inourplace.co.uk/. The following courses have been developed by teams of clinical psychologists: for adults: Understanding your relationships (11 modules of 20 minutes each for £24) and Understanding your own trauma (11 modules of 20 minutes each for £25). They offer a course for parents called Understanding your teenager’s brain (9 modules of 20 minutes each for £9) and a course for teenagers called Understanding your brain (9 modules of 20 minutes each for £9) and another called Understanding your feelings (8 modules of 20 minutes each for £8.50) and others.​

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KindleKids is a company founded by a London-based Chartered Clinical Child Psychologist who has put together several pre-paid online courses for parents of children between ages 4-16, available for a fraction of the cost of the equivalent time in one-to-one meetings. She is offering an 8-week programme of access to video recordings and worksheets, designed to equip parents with skills and confidence to support their children when they are experiencing difficulties, for £180. The programme is called the Psychology Of Wellbeing & Emotional Resilience (P.O.W.E.R.) and includes modules on (1) Essentials of Emotional Wellbeing, (2) Thinking about Thinking, (3) Overcoming Anxiety, (4) More on Anxiety, (5) Unravelling and Understanding Anger, (6) Building Confidence and Resilience. (7) Social Skills and (8) Parenting and Understanding Behaviour. There is an option to purchase this course and also to book a 30-minute 1:1 Q&A session with the Psychologist, for an additional £90 (so, £270 for the 8-week course plus one individual session). Still with KindleKids, there is also a similar course tailored for parents of a child on the autism spectrum: an 8-week online course, plus 2 live workshops, for £199 and also, separately, a one hour-long recorded video and worksheets to download, on the subject of Understanding and Managing Overwhelm, which costs £29.50.

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The University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education offers some online and in-person courses in Psychology and others aimed at increasing Wellbeing, which are open to anyone aged over 18. Several are available over the coming weeks and months (March-May 2025). A summary of the courses can be found at https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/search#/courses?s=psychology&sort=relevance. Courses starting in the coming weeks include Positive Psychology, the Psychology of Happiness, ​​and Brain and Behaviour. The formats range from online flexible (subscribe and complete in your own time), online live (at fixed times), one-day in-person workshops or weekly in-person 2-hour sessions in Summertown, OX2 (behind the former Co-Op which is now Oliver Bonas). Some of the courses sound fascinating but are week-long residential courses and rather expensive. 

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https://www.aspergerexperts.com/ is a website, as mentioned on the 'free resources' page here, whose founders are young adults all on the spectrum themselves, and some have studied psychology. They emphasize learning how to feel better or help someone else feel calmer, rather than trying to teach ‘coping skills’. They offer courses for parents and young adults, starting from US$147, which includes a recording based around approximately 6 hours of PowerPoint-type presentations and a transcript. You also get access (included in the cost) to twice-weekly live call-ins with a psychologist for the duration of the course (5 weeks) and if you can’t access all or any of the calls (they’re on the US west coast), they will email you a recording.

 

While our child was under the care of Oxfordshire CAMHS, we were allocated to about 12 sessions with 2 different family therapists, but they seemed to think our situation was too difficult for therapy, although they couldn't or didn't explain why. I found a fairly substantial course which is accessible to parents as well as professionals, called Families and beyond: an introduction to systemic thinking. It's online self-study, 2-4 hours of material per week, a mix of video and reading, including video clips of clinician-trainers talking through concepts and examples of family therapy in action, which could provide useful insight. £350 for 10 weeks of online study with flexible timing; the next course starts on 28th April 2025​. This course is provided by the The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health (only mental health) NHS Trust based in north London. The Trust specialises in talking therapies.