Families & Kids
Topics of Therapy around the issues:
Communication
Teamwork
Boundaries & Discipline
School advocacy
Healing emotional wounds
EMDR for nightmares/terrors
Concerns of kids:
School & cyber bullying
Peer relationships
Premature sexual exposure
Academics
ADHD, ADD effects
Step Parents & Siblings
Depression & Anxiety Issues
Meltdowns
Nightmares/Night Terrors
Technology Addictions
Family Therapy
Counseling for children and teens, is primarily accomplished within the context of family therapy, where mom, dad, siblings or others may be involved in various sessions.
Families today find themselves facing issues that in past generations were nearly non-existent. With the divorce rate still raging at 50% for first marriages, and 70-80% for subsequent marriages, the American family unit is struggling.
Divorce Recovery, Blending Families with step-parents and step-siblings of all sorts, Parenting Issues, and School Issues for the children, are just a few Family Therapy concerns.
Concerns of parents:
Meltdowns of children
New couple relationships
Marital issues
Clashing of different parenting styles
Step-children
In-laws & Out-laws
Custody/Visitation Battles and ongoing stress from ex-spouse
Discipline of kids & step-kids
School choices: private, public, charter, home-school
Resources
Books:
Healing ADD
The Explosive Child
Boundaries for Kids
Love Languages for Kids
Action Bible for Kids