Does your child have BIG feelings? Do they often worry? Or simply can’t express how they are feeling? Our brains are not fully developed until the age of 25, therefore children don’t think like adults and can’t always articulate how they’re feeling. Nowadays, parents are encountering more complex problems with their children and let’s face it…..parenting is tough!
Child therapists are trained in teaching children to comprehend their emotions and to appropriately and healthily convey them. A Child therapist usually focuses on behaviour change through interaction and play with younger kids. Attention spans vary and making a session interesting and sometimes physically active for children can help them better understand how their emotions are manifesting in their little bodies. A good therapist will actively include parents and other caregivers in developing strategies to work on at home.
Family Therapy
This therapeutic approach is an effective way to help all family members make positive changes. When one family member is experiencing difficulties, particularly when it comes to mental health, it is common for the entire family unit to feel the effects. Family therapy looks to help members of a family understand one another better, and gives everyone an opportunity to voice their concerns in a respectful way. When every member of the family feels heard, healthy conflict resolution can begin.
Play Therapy
Play therapy is a well-researched and effective therapeutic approach. When provided by an experienced, trained therapist, play therapy is proven to be a highly effective approach for helping children resolve distress and improve interpersonal relationships. Play therapy enables children to communicate their feelings, experiences and ideas through play, their natural medium of expression.
Parental Consultation
Parental coaching is a specialized form of therapy that works with parents to help them face difficult moments in parenting. Parenting therapy also helps parents identify, address, and manage their own past or present experiences that may be affecting the way they relate to their child. Parenting therapy provides a judgement-free zone for parents to discuss tough moments in parenting and learn how to better manage these tough moments moving forward. Overall, parenting therapy aims to provide parents with the necessary knowledge, tools, guidance, and support to take care of their children in the most ideal way possible.
Solution-Focused
Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a short-term goal-focused approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioural change.
Adolescence is often characterized as a time of change in which one can experience a range of emotions; excitement, curiosity, as well as uncertainty. Therapy for teenagers aims to provide support to those facing struggles commonly experienced in teenage years, such as; anxiety, feelings of sadness, bullying, body-image, confidence, and low self-esteem, social skills, and/or identify development. The goal of this type of therapy is to provide a safe and neutral space for young people, as well as an opportunity for them to learn new skills and strategies. This will bring about positive changes in their thoughts and behaviours.
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