Child Counseling
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Child Counseling & Child Therapy Pleasanton
How does Child Counseling work?
What type of child counseling or child therapy is needed, depends on the child’s situation. During childhood, a young person goes through tremendous change and development on a physical, intellectual, social and emotional level. The support of parents and other primary care giving adults in the child’s world are essential to the formation of a strong sense of self, emotional strength and, an ability to engage positively with the outside world. Sometimes, despite this support, children may experience difficulty in navigating the challenges of life, hitting developmental milestones, or growing to reach their emotional and social capacities. Our child counselors will assess the situation to help determine the child’s therapy and counseling needs.
Therapy2Thrive® child counselor in Pleasanton understands the important role parents have in their child’s life. Parents and primary care givers are the window into their child’s home life and provide a crucial contribution to the success of their child’s counseling. As a result, before we meet with children for child counseling or child therapy in Pleasanton, we meet with parents or primary care givers to gather background information regarding the child’s developmental history, strategies that have proved helpful in addressing their concerns and what concerns the family would like to address.
Children often communicate in a different manner from adults. Developmentally, children often communicate their fears and worries in largely a non-verbal way. Your Therapy2Thrive® Pleasanton child therapist interacts with your child’s inner world through the strategic use of imaginary play, art, games and, other symbolic activities. This process of “Play Therapy” helps children cope with difficult emotions, create solutions to their problems, and develop healthy self-esteem.
Some signs that your child could benefit from child counseling Pleasanton are:
- Behavioral problems such as excessive anger, acting out, bedwetting, non-compliance
- A significant decline in school performance
- Episodes of sadness, tearfulness or depression
- Social withdrawal or isolation
- Bullying other children or is bullied
- Overly aggressive behavior such as biting, kicking or hitting
- Increased physical complaints such as stomachache, complaints of physical illness despite a clear health exam by the doctor
- Difficulty adapting through a separation, divorce or location change
- Aftermath of a trauma such as physical, emotional or sexual abuse
- Grief after the loss of a loved one or pet
Therapy2Thrive® Pleasanton Counseling brings Hope for Healing
Our Pleasanton child counselors at Therapy2Thrive® provide compassionate, practical, and evidenced based practices to assist you in the therapeutic process to meet your goals and find hope to heal the challenges you are facing.
