Parent Coaching
Parent coaching is a customized-to-your family opportunity to understand your child’s needs and learn how you can help them thrive. You’ll be guided by a trained therapist who will listen, not judge, and provide you advice and support that will help your family gain peace. If typical parenting methods have not been working for your child – or worse yet, have made things even more challenging for them – then Children’s Therapy Center, Co. is the place for you. We can be your trusted ally in parenting your child.
Parent coaching
Is our clinic right for you?
At Children’s Therapy Center, Co., we believe that children’s behaviors are their best available way to communicate their state of regulation and/or current abilities. We have tossed aside the common notion that children primarily use behavior either to get something, or to get out of something, as the scientific community now recognizes that there is a lot more to children’s behavior than meets the eye. We understand that a child’s behavior is a protective response from their brain to keep them safe, and look at their behaviors as clues to determine what they may be trying to tell us. This allows us to go beyond the what (e.g. child refuses to sit at the dinner table with family), and get to the why (e.g. child is severely sensitive to tactile input resulting in a sense of threat and lack of safety). Through play, as the child’s primary occupation, we strategically help the child regulate abnormal sensory input to develop physical coordination, emotional maturity, social skills, and self-confidence. We combine many clinical approaches to come up with a plan that is meaningful and impactful for your child. Some approaches we incorporate include: Integrated Listening Systems, Sensory Integration, DIR/Floor time, Social Thinking, Zones of Regulation, STAR Center Model, Reflex Integration, Handwriting without Tears and more!
How We Can Help
- Challenges with feeding, sleeping, dressing, grooming, toileting, play & academic skills
- Exploring your child’s sensory processing capacities and how to support their regulation
- Developing a greater understanding behind the ‘why’ meltdowns occur and how to manage these in various environments
- Discussing co-regulation and how to use and manage this within the family routine
- Learning how to support social skill development with family and friends
- Supporting how to communicate to school/preschool teachers about your child’s sensory processing challenges and how this can affect their learning ability within the school environment
- Exploring and growing your relationship with your child through empowerment and positivity
- Discussing the impact of childhood trauma on occupational performance and providing trauma informed care at home
All human beings are active seekers of knowledge and play is an integral facet of this ongoing quest. The pedagogical value of play does not lie in its use as a way to teach children a specific set of skills through structured activities called “play.” Rather, play is valuable for children primarily as a medium for development and learning (Doris Bergen, 1998).
Dr. Doris Bergen
