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Helping children & parents heal together

Therapy for young children, children and parenting support in North Carolina

Promoting positive attachment and emotional health in children and helping parents heal from their past and bring back the joy in parenting.

Services For

Children

High quality evidenced based treatment interventions for children 5-12 to overcome the impacts of trauma or anxiety. Empowering your child with an emotionally healthy childhood and beyond.

Young Children

Infant and early childhood mental health matters. Give your child birth-5 the gift of positive attachment and healthy social and emotional development in the earliest stages and relationships of life.

Parenting

Expert parent guidance to empower you to better understand child development and behaviors. Heal from your childhood experiences so that you can show up as the parent you want to be.

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My approach lies in promoting the mental health, attachment and healthy development of children and empowering parents with the gift of healing to end general cycles.

Parents come to me when they want to improve the parent-child relationship after their child has experienced a trauma, want help with reducing their child's anxiety, are unsure of how to manage their child's big feelings and behavioral reactions and/or want to break generational cycles in their parenting by healing past traumas.

With so much information out there about parenting and child behavior, I partner with parents on the journey to figuring it all out! In my practice, I use research-based interventions and the latest science to help parents, like you, who are worried about their child or their parenting find peace and confidence!

APPROACH

Parents can nurture their child's mental health by: ✨Taking care of themselves first- it is not selfish for parents to take care of themselves first when you are cared for nurtured and supported you are able to show up as the parent you want to be
Children are always watching us. In order for them to learn coping and conflict resolution skills, parents play a powerful role in demonstrating and modeling healthy strategies within their own behaviors. ✨ Deep Breathing- one of the greatest coping
Emotional intelligence helps children better comprehend their emotions, to feel those emotions fully, and demonstrate empathy for others. Parents can use the above strategies to guide their child into better understanding emotions, regulating them a
When people hear about co-regulation, it is generally associated with caregivers support of infants/babies but it is actually a skill that can be utilized in relationships across the life span. ✨Children learn self-regulation, emotional intelligenc
A key part of emotional intelligence is self-regulation. Self-regulation is a skill that children have to be taught, modeled and guided to develop. Before they can utilize this tool on their own, they need their caregivers assistance in developing th
Emotions are a big part of life and we can't ignore them or avoid them as much as we try. Emotions are windows into our experiences, messages about what is good for us, what is not good for us, that maybe something or someone needs to change Raisi
Research on self-compassion indicates that it is one of the most powerful sources of coping and resilience we have available to us and improves our mental and physical wellbeing. As parents when you are at your best with your mental and physical we
4 tips + prompts for repairing ! All parents, no matter how loving, have conflict with their children. Conflict is inevitable. At some point, as humans in relationships with others, we mess up, we make mistakes, we respond in a way we regret or we sa

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