Finding the Right Therapist for Your Child in The Woodlands, TX
“Child therapist in The Woodlands TX helping children and families build confidence and emotional health.”
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What Causes Kids to Have Meltdowns: Childhood Emotional Outbursts
Understanding the triggers behind your child’s meltdowns can often feel like solving a complex puzzle. Classic childhood meltdowns are intense bursts of behavior that can include crying, yelling, and other forms of emotional release. They often occur because children have yet to develop the necessary language skills or coping mechanisms to properly express their feelings…
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Why They Matter
Childhood is a critical time for growth, learning, and building a foundation for a happy and healthy life. However, for some individuals, childhood can be marked by traumatic experiences that have a lasting impact on their well-being. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are such events, and they play a significant role in shaping a person’s physical…
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SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
Childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are common mental health challenges that affect many young minds. As parents, we play a pivotal role in supporting our children through these difficult emotions and helping them build resilience. SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) is an evidence-based, parent-focused treatment that helps caregivers with the tools to…
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Attachment and Attachment Problems
Maybe you have heard of a psychologist or doctor who uses the phrase “attachment.” They are not talking about attaching something to another thing, but rather the quality of the relationship between a parent and a child. This is the core foundation for a child’s expectation that the people they depend on will love and…
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All About Parent Child Interaction Therapy
What is PCIT?Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a positive, direct, and intensive therapy that helps both parents and children work on their parent-child relationship. What are the stages in PCIT?There are a few stages to Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. The first stage is to gather information about the client’s behaviors and the parent-child relationship. This is…
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Incorporating Social Emotional Learning into Games
by Kelly Guidry, LPC-S With school districts rolling out remote learning faster than ever before, we thought it may be helpful to give you some fun ways to also include social emotional learning at home. One of my favorite ways to do this is through the use of games. I’m going to walk through three…
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5 Practical Tips for Helping Your Child Develop Emotional Intelligence
Most parents want to be sure their child has cognitive intelligence that’s on par with whatever might be appropriate for their age group. But emotional intelligence can be just as important. Emotional intelligence in a child refers to how they express their emotions, and how aware they are of those emotions. It also refers to…
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Family Play Time: Why It’s Important & How to Do It
As adults, we might not think much about “playing,” or its importance. For a child, however, playing is a natural form of communication, learning, and growing. While your child can get a lot out of playing on their own or with friends, family play time is just as important for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately,…
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5 Tips for the Back to School Transition
Recently in a session a kid told me, “On the first day of school I’m hiding under my bed.” The lazy days of summer are slowly coming to an end. Summer has been “chock-a-block” full of fun things like vacations, swimming, sleeping in, hanging out, and NOT having to worry about school. With school right…
