Clinicians
Hondo, Texas, 78861
Does your child's behavior embarrass you? Make you feel like a failure? How can a tiny human make you feel such guilt and shame? You are not alone. I've been there too! I've experienced the screaming child drawing everyone's judgmental eyes to you. Behavior is just a response to something going on underneath the surface. Think of an iceberg. We only see the tip (the behavior). There's a huge block of ice that is unseen below the waterline. Children don't have the language skills to tell you. Heck, adults have a hard time. Interventions that do not require vocabulary are powerful and can assist in lasting change.
Sandtray therapy assists to expose the things we have an inability to speak of. Once in the sand, they can be processed. Themes and patterns keep you trapped in repeating scenarios. Diagnoses, behaviors, failed or troubled relationships, are simply symptoms of deeper hurts. The dots may never be connected, continuing hurts to be passed to the next generation.
I was once the parent of a struggling child. You're not the "worst parent ever." You're just one thats struggling to do the best you can. Children do not come with instruction manuals. Our experiences influences parenting.
Contact me if you're ready to get back in the driver's seat to a healthy relationship with your child and change generational patterns.
What is an area that you struggle most in with your child? For me is was validating the feelings. Validation does...
