Build Your Family’s Resilience: How To Overcome Life’s Challenges Together
by Shannon Starley, CSW What is resilience? It’s the ability to make it through difficult times and come out stronger on the other side. Life often presents us with unexpected challenges, such as death, divorce, or the arrival of a new baby. While various factors contribute to an individual’s resilience, family resilience encompasses even more […]
Play is A Child’s Business: Unlocking Growth and Healing Through Play Therapy
By Jody Sargent, LCSW Often, I hear the phrase, “You’re just playing with my child,” after my therapy sessions. While it might seem that way, the truth is, play therapy is a profound and transformative approach to fostering growth and healing. Let me share why play therapy holds immense value in our therapeutic journey. Understanding […]
Unlock Your Child’s Potential with Play Therapy!
Play therapy, in all its wonderful forms, holds the key to unlocking your child’s potential. Whether through visualization, storytelling, crafts, role-playing, toys and objects, or sand play, play therapy allows young minds to express themselves, tap into their creativity, and feel secure within these therapeutic environments. It empowers them to become the authors of their own stories, creating their own happy endings.
What You Need to Know About Play Therapy.
by Jessica Hansen There is a rise in mental health issues among our younger populations. Children are very vulnerable due to their constantly developing brains, making their mental health very critical. Children who struggle with mental health issues may have difficulty forming relationships, performing in school, developing coping skills, expressing emotions appropriately, dealing with hard […]
Children Can Learn to Calm Down, Even After Trauma.
By Jody Sargent As a parent, it can be incredibly difficult to watch your child experience difficult emotions. Whether they are feeling sad, angry, or frustrated, you want nothing more than to make it all go away. However, regulating emotions is an essential part of healthy development, and it is something that children need to […]
Child and Teen Art Therapy Group
Unified Family Therapy is excited to announce a new Child and Teen Art Therapy Group that will begin on March 11th. The group will take place every Thursday for 10 weeks. We are currently offering two age groups 7-12 year olds will meet 4:00 pm -5:30 pm and 13-18 year olds will meet from 6:00 […]
Does My Child or Teen Need a Child Therapist?
Does your child or teen need a child therapist? Is your child experiencing anxiety, depression, or trauma? We can help.
Back to School Mental Wellness Check
Don’t forget your child’s back to school mental well check! It’s easy to tell if your child is struggling physically because most of us recognize the signs, but did you know there are also signs for mental wellness? Unified Family Therapy offers a unique preventative yearly well check to keep your child and teen mentally […]
How to help your Child Communicate
1. Eliminate distractions. By nature, children want to share and talk about their lives from their own perspective. However, in the busy world we live in today, opportunities for them to talk to the adults in their world without distraction can be challenging and because of that can keep them from really letting you know […]