Tag: Children

  • Is DMDD Causing Your Child’s Anger?

    Is DMDD Causing Your Child’s Anger?

    All children have their moments of irritability and anger from time to time; that’s a normal part of life. If your child has extreme outbursts in which they cannot control their anger, this is more than just a “normal” thing. There is a clinical diagnosis for your child, in this case, and there is help…

  • How Play Therapy Can Enable Healthy Thoughts for Children

    How Play Therapy Can Enable Healthy Thoughts for Children

    Child play therapy is supposed to improve intelligence, speech, and social behaviors, reduce aggression, conduct disorder, anxiety, or fear and help children recover from trauma. It is widely used as a self-help way to overcome obstacles for traumatized or disabled children and is based on a fundamental activity for overall development. By definition, we play…

  • How to Care for a Blended Family, 5 Areas of Focus

    How to Care for a Blended Family, 5 Areas of Focus

    Blending families is a courageous act of love and intelligence because at some point the kids need the next chapter to begin and so do Mom and Dad. There are 5 areas that need attention for the transition to go easier. Every family has their specific dynamics that can be worked with as long as…

  • How to Grow a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 1

    How to Grow a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 1

      If there is one thing a couple can do to grow a richer marriage it would be to deepen the emotional conversations. It takes some simple learning, a little courage and a hell of a lot of curiosity. The art of emotional conversation and the art of making love are very similar. The end…

  • The Art Therapist

    The Art Therapist

    The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.  – Aristotle Art has an essential place in psychotherapy.  It provides expression for places within the self that are not yet known.  If these places remain unconscious, they appear as struggle or staled maturity.  A poem or story…

  • Todays Therapist | Raising a Teenager Infographic

    Todays Therapist | Raising a Teenager Infographic

    Raising a teenager is confusing for everyone in the family, so, how as parents can we guide our children through this time of life?  First, we have to learn of few new parenting skills, because parenting a teen is very different than parenting when the kids were young.  What use to work when they were…

  • Family Therapy

    Family Therapy

    Family therapy re-balances the family. Usually, in this busy world families get fragmented. Each person has their own work, school, and interests. This is all good, but it can create distance and dissatisfaction when they get out of balance. Warmth and intimacy usually diminish during this time. Family therapy works to reverse this process. Family therapy…