For Parents
When your child is struggling and you are uncertain what to do
Understanding what is happening is also a step toward choosing how to respond.
Parents often sense a change or struggle before they can fully understand what is happening. At times, it may be difficult to remain grounded in the parental role, while the child may react too intensely or become unusually passive. The child may seem to be developing in an unexpected way, become withdrawn, irritable, or restless, or behave differently from what you have come to know and expect. This uncertainty can be exhausting.
Psychotherapeutic work is an attempt to find meaning to this uncertainty - so that you can think more clearly, better understand what is happening and what your child needs, and consider what the next step might be.
Child, Adolescent, Parents
Child and Parents
For atypical development, difficulties with activity and attention, impulsivity, anxiety, fear, sadness, aggressive behaviour; obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviour; as well as learning difficulties or difficulties with adjustement.
Adolescent and Parents
Growing up is a challenge both for the person who is growing and for their parent. It takes effort and courage to leave behind some childhood ideas, beliefs, and expectations, and to find oneself within the more demanding reality of adulthood, with its responsibilities and consequences shaped by the world we live in. The parent, in turn, also has to let go of some of their familiar ideas about the child and find a new way of being there for them.
In idem flumen bis non descendimus.
We do not step into the same river twice.
On Change, the Parent, the Child, and Support
Unarranges encounters and still encounters
The little sleeping creature, whom we visit in the stillness of their sleep. A parent is both a home and a separate world. Turning to a psychotherapist can also be a way of finding our bearing amid changes in the child, in ourselves, and in life. The search itself may hold a longing for shelter from life’s vicissitudes. Children’s difficulties are also maps of the labyrinths of childhood. Learning to read them can bring us closer to understanding the support the child may be seeking.