No matter the age of a person, mental health is a part of each person’s overall wellness. Children and youth experience their mental health and mental health challenges in varied ways given their differing developmental stages
If you answer yes to any of the above questions or are concerned about the wellness of your youth, please reach out and get support now.
Children are people too. Children are impacted by life’s occurrences, whether they can express it through words or not. Often, children try to express themselves through their behaviour, leaving it to the adults to make sense of what they are trying to convey. Without the skills to really listen and hear, this can be frustrating for parents and children alike.
We can work directly with the child to:
❏ Provide a safe space for exploration and expression
❏ Provide a space with unconditional acceptance
❏ Develop awareness of internal processes
❏ Provide simplified knowledge and language about the brain and nervous system
❏ Develop awareness of ‘big emotions’
❏ Develop skills and coping tools to deal with ‘big emotions’
We can work directly with the parent/caregiver to:
❏ Provide a safe space to explore the challenges of parenting
❏ Develop awareness of patterns
❏ Increase awareness and knowledge about own reaction styles
❏ Learn tools to really listen
❏ Set and maintain boundaries
❏ Decrease sense of powerlessness
❏ Become more aligned with parent you want to be
Adolescence can truly be a trying time. The changes brought upon by puberty pose physical, social, and mental/emotional challenges. Life is transitioning from childhood to adulthood. There is a greater pull towards individualization, along with greater social and emotional challenges. There are new awareness’s and realizations about life and self. As a result, our youth are dealing with a lot of noise in the mind and body that can impact their mental health on many levels.
We can work directly with the youth to:
❏ Provide a safe space to explore their concerns
❏ Provide a space with unconditional acceptance
❏ Develop awareness of their internal world and impact on/of their external world
❏ Empower through knowledge and language about the brain and nervous system
❏ Learn tools to quiet the noise of the mind
❏ Learn skills to self-regulate
❏ Develop a relationship of compassion with self
As a parent are you:
❏ Concerned about the behaviour of your teenager?
❏ Afraid of some high-risk behaviours?
❏ Feeling frustrated or powerless?
❏ Struggling to communicate effectively with your teenager?
❏ Feeling a strain in the relationship with your teenager?
❏ Concerned about the mental wellness of your teenager
❏ Wanting to find ways to stay connected and be in relation with your teenager?
If you answer yes to any of the above questions or are concerned about the wellness of your youth, please reach out and get support now.