Help your child understand worry & know what to do next.
Every child worries. But not all worries are worth listening to. Some protect us. Some just get in the way.
Learning to tell the difference is a skill.
And like any skill, it can be taught.
Detective Pip and the Tricky Worry Trap is a psychologist-written story that gives children a simple plan to spot real worries, outsmart tricky ones, and know how to move forward when worry pops up.
So families can spend less time getting stuck in worry and more time getting on with the good stuff.
Order now · Ships early December
Sound familiar?
- Does your child get caught up in worry and struggle to move on?
- Do they regularly ask for reassurance, even when you've already answered their question?
- Do they fall apart over things that seem small, or that they used to handle fine?
- Are they overly worried about what others think, or whether they've done something wrong?
- Do worries keep them up at night, lying awake and unable to switch their mind off?
- Have they started avoiding situations, activities or places that didn't used to be a problem?
If you're nodding along, it may be that worries are getting in the way.
Detective Pip gives you and your child a simple framework for understanding worry and a plan for when worries show up.
Knowing what to do in the moment is a skill. And like any skill, it can be learned and practised.
Complex psychology. Made simple.
On the surface, the story looks simple (and it is!). That's by design.
Underneath, it's built on psychological research that informs how clinicians understand and treat worry and anxiety in children.
Detective Pip translates these ideas into a story children can understand, with a practical framework they can use when worries show up.
Built for parents. Useful for teachers. Loved by therapists.
Not all worries are the same
Some worries alert us to something unsafe or something we need to act on. These are real worries.
Others are tricky worries. They can feel urgent and convincing, but they're actually false alarms.
The challenge? Both can feel very real in the body, and hard to tell apart.
And that's where children (and parents) get stuck.
When we respond to every worry in the same way, we can accidentally strengthen tricky worries over time.
Detective Pip gives children and parents a clear framework for telling the difference between real and tricky worries, and a practical plan for how to respond, so worries are no longer in the driver's seat.
Meet Sam and Pip
Sam is a regular kid whose worries have started showing up more often and getting in the way of things he loves. Enter Pip, the Worry Detective, here to help Sam work out which worries are worth listening to, and what to do with the ones that aren't.
This beautifully hand-illustrated story gives children and those who love them a shared language for worry and a clear plan for what to do next.
Give them a skill for life
A book they'll keep coming back to. Teach your child how to handle worry, so everyone spends less time stuck and more time on the important business of childhood.
Detective Pip and the Tricky Worry Trap
$39 AUDFree standard shipping Australia-wide until 11 December 2026
Hardcover · Ages 5–12 · Ships early December
A psychologist-written story to help children understand worry and know what to do next.
What parents are saying
I didn't know the extent he worried until we read this together. It gave him a way to show me what was going on inside.
I was surprised how quickly my daughter understood it. She actually started using the words herself.
A beautifully simple framework grounded in real clinical practice. I'll be recommending this to families.
Give your child a new way to handle worry
Pre-order Detective Pip and the Tricky Worry Trap now. Copies are expected to ship in early December, with free standard shipping Australia-wide on orders placed by 11 December 2026.