Do you ever feel like life can get so chaotic that at times you feel you might lose your head if it wasn’t attached to your body? With the hustle and bustle of daily life including jobs, relationships, children, etc., it wouldn’t be a stretch to guess that family time often falls by the wayside. ...read more
What is Going on in my Child’s Brain? A Houston Family Therapist Explains Neuroscience
Have you ever tried to reason with a 4-year-old child who stands in the middle of the grocery store screaming at the top of her lungs because she will not buy the sugar cereal that she wants? Your normally reasonable child seems completely devoid of logic and reason. You feel at a loss to understand ...read more
Back to School Blues?
Close your eyes for a moment... Imagine yourself walking through the hallway of a brand-new workplace. You meet all the qualifications for the job. Yet, your stomach feels twisted up and you’re worried if your coworkers will like you, if they will sit with you at lunch, or listen to your ...read more
The Mindful Family: Tips from a Houston Child Therapist
There are a lot of buzzy words out there in the realm of mental health. It seems like there are so many different ways to improve one’s mental health, yet we still are left not quite sure how to implement these tactics. Additionally, when it comes to our children, figuring out how to help them live ...read more
Play Therapy Explained by a Houston Play Therapist
What is Play Therapy? I invite you to think of the word “play”. Maybe you are thinking of summer days as a child, frolicking through the grass chasing your opponent in a game of tag. Perhaps you are brushing your baby doll's hair while voicing as its caretaker in the world of make-believe. Whatever ...read more
Growing in Empathy with Your Child
Summertime as a parent can bring a wide range of emotions! The relief of a more relaxed schedule can quickly turn into suddenly finding yourself overwhelmed with how to keep your child(ren) engaged. Maybe, we try to jampack the summer with camps and vacations to keep everyone afloat until that ...read more
A Houston, TX Family Therapist Explains How Looking Within Can Help You Better Understand Your Child
Do you ever feel like you truly don’t understand why your child is behaving in a certain way? Maybe they’re showing a lot of big emotions lately in the form of tantrums. Maybe they’re giving you a hard time with bedtime routine. That lack of understanding could be a big why, but what if that ...read more
A Child Therapist Shares What You Should Know About ADHD and Self Esteem
ADHD Children Often Hear These Words: “Calm down!” “Stop interrupting me!” “You need to focus.” “You failed the test because you made a lot of careless mistakes.” These are some of the many phrases children with Attention Deficit- Hyperactivity Disorder hear all the time. ADHD is ...read more
Physically Distant…Socially Connected
Social Distancing. It is one of those phrases that we have invented in order to make big and scary events more palatable. Like instead of saying “I am leaving my partner, roommate and lover of the last ten years” or “The holidays will never be the same!” we say we are “consciously uncoupling” – as ...read more
Teletherapy Services
We’re all experiencing some level of stress and fear about what’s happening in the world and now, more than ever, we need to feel connected to another human who can help us cope with it. I know by now you have all heard of media continuing to recommend “social distancing.” I challenge all of us to ...read more