When Your Child Goes to Therapy: Tips for Parents Supporting Children and Teens in CounselingIt’s the moment when you get a call from your child’s school letting you know your child is having concerning behavioral issues in class....
4- 6 Tips for Parenting Kids with Complex TraumaIf you’ve been following my posts, I’ve been writing a lot about some of the ways trauma affects us. My last post was specifically about...
3- Trauma, Development, and How Stress Shapes Growing Brains(Artwork by me, Pen and Watercolor on Paper) My first job as a mental health professional was with a therapeutic foster care program. I...
2- Treating Trauma: The Art of RegulationA large, formless lump of clay sat between myself and the child I was working with. The child studied it thoughtfully before carefully...
1- Trauma and Resilience: An IntroductionWhen I was an undergraduate student, I spent a month in Nepal working on a collaborative photography project with a group of women living...