As a parent, it’s natural to want to support your child in every way possible, especially when they’re in therapy. However, we find that when parents find us, they have already tried therapy but felt disconnected from their child’s treatment. Children learn important skills in therapy, but parents often don’t know how to reinforce those…
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…
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…
Your son is ignoring you while your daughter is angry. What do you do? In a typical family, this would not be an easy question. However, you and your partner are part of a blended family. One, in which, both of you bring together children from previous relationships into a new family. This can be an exciting and…
When you hear the word “grit,” what comes to mind? Now, think of it in terms of people, specifically, children. You’ll probably associate it with being tough or having the ability to pick yourself up and dust yourself off. There is a lot of talk surrounding kids these days, and their lack of grit. In…
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,…
As a parent do you ever feel as though you are constantly telling your child what not to do? “Don’t run in the house,” “Stop fighting with your brother,” or “I said to clean your room already, why aren’t you listening to me?” If these statements or something similar to these statements resonate with how…
Do you feel like you are constantly having to break up arguments over the silliest things? Are you constantly trying to balance who gets what toy, or who gets to pick the next movie to avoid another fight? Summer is here which means more time at home and more time for siblings to be around…
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) was created to improve the relationship you have with your child. It uses child-directed interaction couple with coaching to teach different parenting techniques. PCIT also helps to reduce any problematic behavioral issues you might be facing with your child. As a result, your relationship with your child/children and the entire family…
Praising Your Child By Kelly Guidry, LPC-S Have you ever gotten feedback to the tune of “good job”, “great work”, or “awesome”? Did you think to yourself, good job for what? Great work at what? Awesome for what? All too often we are quick to dish out generic compliments, and by all means there isn’t…