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Child Therapy | Creating the Best “Me”

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Child Therapy | Creating the Best “Me”

Is your child’s behavior normal or worrisome?
Younger children have fewer coping skills and less control over their environment. Early in their child development stages, they are less able to verbalize emotional problems and consequently don’t know how to show their distress. That distress can come out indirectly such as poor behavior. As parents you often see the “acting out” or power struggles as the problem. However, the real issue may be with sleeping, eating, disrespect, or personal safety. Sometimes children even express emotional difficulties as physical complaints such as “tummy aches.”

Therapy with Young Children
As your child works their way through their child development stages, children learn best using a mixture of techniques involving play and direct teaching because these are already familiar avenues for a young child to experience an adult. Through the therapeutic use of play, children are given the opportunity to express their feelings naturally, and safely which then enables the healing process to begin. Combined with direct teaching, your child can develop skills to promote appropriate behavior to problem solve, make good decisions and control their impulses.

How we help
At Bellevue Family Counseling, we primarily use experience-based therapies such as a sand tray, art or Play Therapy. These offer your child the opportunity to identify, discuss and understand the emotions that create their internal distress. Next, we process those emotions and develop appropriate tools and skills, in age-appropriate ways. In this way, they learn to manage the internal and external conflicts that are their struggles and express them more effectively and appropriately.

Play Therapy can help your child:

  • Identify and cope with feelings
  • Enhance self-confidence and competence
  • Reduce anxiety about challenging life events
  • Develop skills to promote appropriate behavior

Leah Koenig, MA, LMHC

Teens and Parent Coaching
Leah Koenig worked with Marlon to launch Collaborative Couples & Family Counseling, LLC in 2008, now Bellevue Family Counseling, LLC. Since then Leah has been focusing her time on working with children and teens to help them better manage many of the challenges they face in their developmental years. Leah also works with parents to help them better manage the challenges that raising happy and healthy children can bring. As a parent coach, she helps them visualize their dream and work together to build a family life they value.
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