Your relationship with your children is central to their development and your own development as a parent.
Increased emotional connection with your child
Working with parents and children to foster safety and trust so that self-reflection and enriched meaning-making processes can be activated
Therapy creates a safe setting and a consistent, reliable relationship with parents so that they can
- Receive non-judgemental and accepting responses to their current understanding of their child, the emotional impact the child is having on them, and their parenting so far
- Learn how to increase reciprocal interactions and intersubjective communication with their child
- Be helped to make sense of their child’s behavior and emotional responses
Make emotional connections with their child before setting behavioral limits
Therapy helps with emotional, social and behavioral concerns of children including
- Anxiety Disorders—Separation Anxiety
- Depression / Mood Disorders
- Social Skills and Self Esteem Building
- Parental Separation, Grief & Loss
- Eating & Feeding Disorders
- Acute Stress, Post Traumatic stress disorders
- Behavioral Difficulties
- Anger
Therapy includes working with:
- Play-Based Therapy
- Theraplay- a proactive, intensive relationship focused parent-child therapy
- Creative-Based Therapy including art therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy- Working with both parents and children
- Dyadic Development Psychotherapy – helping both parents and child to develop healthy patterns of relating and communicating
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Therapy will help parents to;
- Be sensitive and emotionally responsive to children’s needs for attention
- Comfort children effectively and consistently when they are stressed out
- Being a good first companion as children are initially learning how to enjoy and stay connected to other people
- Knowing when to let kids struggle and work through challenges to build their own resilience
- Protect children from the dysregulating effects of our own negative emotions by using our powers of self-regulation and stress management – by being the Bigger, Stronger, Wiser and kind adult in the room.