New to Therapy? Helping Your Child Adapt
Growing up is not easy and, no matter the age, life is full of challenges that bring along a myriad of emotions to sort through. Children don’t face the exact […]
What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
How would you define emotional intelligence? When I define emotional intelligence, I define it as the capacity to BE with. But be with what?… The capacity to be with our […]
How Trying To Be Calm Gets In The Way Of Regulation
Have you heard the idea that a child needs a calm adult in order to regulate? The idea that an adult’s “calm” presence is the answer to regulating a child […]
Gratitude Activities to Do With Your Child
Thanksgiving is just around the corner; we can practically smell the pie! And, with that, comes gratitude: this is a time of year to give thanks to everything that helps […]
Let’s Not Forget the Perfect Child
Have you ever noticed that the children who tend to make their way to your office are the ones that are acting out, aggressive, non-compliant, and anxious? And then sprinkled […]
Sleep Issues in Kids: Why Some Children Ban the Bed
Getting children to go to sleep is often the Everest of parenthood. Kids resist, kids persist, and kids insist on another drink of water (even though they may fail to […]
Discussing the Subject of Violence with Children
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Talking to kids about violence is an unfortunate necessity of parenthood. School violence, in particular, is extraordinarily frightening: not every child loves school, but they […]
Turning Time Apart into a Time to Connect
I travel all around the world. Some months I travel a lot. In order for me to follow my heart and teach, I’m required to travel; to soar, I must […]
Five Out-of-the-Box Ways to Connect With Your Child
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S We know our children – we raise them, we love them, we struggle with them, we grow with them. But, as the years go by, […]
Body Image: How You Can Help Your Child Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food
By Chelsea Hester In a world that is populated with diets, food advertisements, and models of only certain shapes and colors, children of all ages are being bombarded by external […]
Help Your Child Overcome Nameless Anxiety
Children share their emotional and body-based experiences in an attempt to integrate life events; including experiences in utero, at birth and post birth. These pre-cognitive events shape a child’s behavior, […]
Paradigm Shift: New Way of Thinking About A Child’s Moods
In this“ Aware on the Air” Podcast Erin Tanner Jospe interviews Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, about Synergetic Play Therapy® and new ways of thinking about a child’s moods based on […]