Do you find you are struggling to connect with your young child? Do you sometimes feel rejected by your child? Does your child give you mixed messages within your parent child relationship with them? Does your child push you away in one moment and then, the next second, they become terrified for you to leave? Have you ever been in the midst of responding to your child's behaviors and you notice an emotional reaction in your body, you begin yelling or responding harshly, you feel completely helpless, lost, overwhelmed?

Parents and young children are designed for healthy and secure attachment which is built through attunement and nurturing caregiving but often times a parents childhood, trauma and/or emotional and mental health impact the ability to develop secure attachment with a child. When there are difficulties in the parent child attachment relationship it can leave you feeling helpless or like you are failing.

Early Childhood services are designed to support you and your child during this period. Therapy will include guiding parents to reflect and process their own experiences from their childhood experiences, traumas and other emotional concerns that are impacting the parent child relationship. Research shows us that the best indicator of secure healthy attachment to our children and the most crucial step to breaking patterns from your own childhood is being able to acknowledge your past experiences and make sense of it.

This service can guide you in breaking generational cycles, understanding child developmental norms, bring back the joy in parenting and create secure attachment with you and your little! Child Therapy Solutions providers mental health therapy for young children and their parents virtually in North Carolina.

Child Parent Psychotherapy is a trauma-focused, relationship-based evidenced based treatment to support you and your young child recover from trauma that has impacted the attachment between you and your little one. Stress and trauma in a parent child relationship can be triggered by numerous factors such as significant illness, loss, domestic violence, adoption, or even a mismatch in parenting style with the child’s personality.  

Child Parent Psychotherapy could be the help you’re looking for to rebuild a positive bond and secure parent child attachment that has been ruptured due to trauma and to help you understand what is normal developmental behavior of young children and support for what’s of concern.

Amanda Justice is endorsed by the North Carolina Infant Mental Health Association as an Infant Mental Health Specialist. IMH-E® Endorsement involves a standardized process to determine that a professional has accumulated specialized knowledge and skill in the infant and early childhood field.