Content: Common ways that children communicate their need for support → Benefits of this family work → Description → Cost → Structure of the Work

Common ways that children communicate their need for support:

• Tactile sensitivity
• Sleep issues/disturbances
• Struggling with transitions (going to sleep, getting up, leaving the house, going into school, etc.)
• Insecure attachment
• Power struggles, and not responding to authority and boundaries (may have become an alpha kid – needing to be the one in charge)
• Inconsolable crying or long periods of crying
• An inability to settle down and/or rest
• A revved nervous system (can be the result of imprints, Pitocin, unresolved trauma, etc.)
• Being overemotional
• Ungrounded behaviors like banging into things a lot, not finding their feet, scattered energy, etc.
• Disconnection from self and/or others, or from Source
• Separation anxiety
• Anger/rage, grief and sadness
• Hyper-vigilant (on high alert towards, people, sounds, environment, etc.)

Benefits of this family work:

• Learn new ways to listen to your child at deeper levels, so that you can understand what is driving her behavior.
• Supports your child to begin to unravel his internal knots, build new resources, and process unresolved trauma and events.
• Have some time for the whole family to integrate what is unresolved from the pre-conception through newborn period, which can sometimes be a very difficult and traumatic journey. This can allow everyone to move on and feel more connected and settled inside. Each person has their own experience of this important life transition, including baby.
• Supportive development of parenting, co-parenting and attachment skills for parents.
• Clearing of blocks and pain within the family system, including ancestral influences.
• Enhanced attachment and closer relationships within the family.
• A more settled child and increased adult-to-adult connection between parents.
• Learning to play with your child.
• Using the “pause” and mutual support and cooperation as parenting, and relational, tools.

Support for your child means that s/he won’t have to grow up constellating around unresolved, and unheard, pain and trauma.

Cost

Sliding scale $175 – $120 per 1-hour session. Debriefs are charged at your chosen hourly rate by the minute, and are paid for at the following session. See below for the structure of the work.

Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and PayPal are accepted.

Call me for a free initial telephone conversation.

PLEASE NOTE: A 24-hour notice is required to cancel or change an appointment, otherwise the full fee is charged.

Structure of the work

1. We begin with a free initial telephone conversation.
2. Intake forms will be filled in.
3. A one-hour play session is scheduled for the child at which both parents are usually present.
4. Before the first session only we will have a pre-session telephone check-in and set your intentions for the work. Your child’s intention will become apparent in the session.
5. Each session is followed by a telephone debrief with the parents 1-2 days after the play session. During debriefs we will discuss and process the session together; this helps your child to move forward and is supportive because s/he is not processing everything alone. We will also check-in about what is happening at home, discuss parenting, and I will give parenting and attachment support if it is needed.
6. As part of the work it can be necessary for one parent to come in for a session with their child, for both parents to come in without their child for a parenting session, or for one parent to come in alone, depending on what is needed in your family.