Blog Posts - Child Counseling
Social distancing to slow COVID-19 spread is difficult for children and especially teenagers, who might feel cut off from their friends. Many also faced disappointments as they canceled or postponed important milestones like sports seasons, graduation, college visits, birthdays, and other long-planned events. It can lead to negative outlook about life and life purpose resulting in anxiety and depression.
Most people consider depression to be an adult-only illness. However, children can also develop depression. Unfortunately, child depression is often undiagnosed because it often gets dismissed as a normal psychological and emotional part of “growing up.” However, children with depression exhibit feelings of anger, sadness, or low mood . This is why you should understand these symptoms in order to support your depressed child.
Counselors encourage to look at your diet and everyday eating habits, which is one of the first step to managing the symptoms of ADD/ADHD.
Parents need to adapt some healthy habits after divorce to ensure you are not affecting your child’s upbringing.
Parents can benefit from focusing on a child’s needs instead of focusing on the negative behavior.
Parents need to put into consideration the needs of an anxious child to make Halloween a happy and memorable event.
Counseling for parents can be highly beneficial in learning helpful strategies to parent a child who suffers from ADD or ADHD symptoms.
Therapists emphasize every child is different, but every child need positive role modeling, practice and reinforcement in order to learn social skills.
In counseling, parents can seek guidance from their therapist on skills that can assist them in teaching positive, encouraging & well-balanced parenting.
Learn ways to manage back to school routine with homework & ways to support your child succeed this new school year
Play therapy helps children express, learn & modify behaviors as well as learn to cope with emotions in a healthy way.
The parent-child relationship can be positive, but it can cause feelings of irritation and tension. Recognize the signs early to stop the cycle of emotional neglect.
Are you worried your child might be obsessed with electronics? Consult with a child therapist and parent coaching to set some healthy boundaries with electronics.
Together parents can protect their children from detrimental effect of separation and divorce. In counseling learns ways to support children during divorce.
Discussing how child counseling sessions are beneficial to your children’s mental and physical well-being during your divorce.
Finding the balance of what is a healthy amount of screen time for children is made easy with these simple tips from Dr. Sara Meghan Walter
Read more on how Play Therapy can be beneficial to children who's parents are going through a divorce.
There can be so many different reasons behind a child’s tantrum, but learning how to manage such negative behavior is helpful for parents to continue promoting healthy coping skills.