by Crissy Himelstein | Jan 9, 2020 | Play Therapy
It goes without saying that children are very different creatures than adults. While adults were the first patients in psychoanalysis, the need to develop specific therapy models appropriate to children eventually became obvious. Play therapy came into therapeutic...
by Crissy Himelstein | Oct 8, 2019 | Parenting
You’ve doubtless seen the spike of youth suicide covered on the news. Indeed, the rate has greatly increased, even more so than the last spike in the 1990s. Perhaps your own community or network of friends has suffered from it. As a parent, nothing is quite as...
by Joanne Gonzalez | Sep 2, 2019 | Parenting
There are two things you should keep in mind about anger when reading this post: 1. Anger is a way of thinking, 2. Anger is an emotional response. Anger has a purpose, it lets us know that something is happening and we want it to change. Simple. All we must do is...
by Leah Molloy | Nov 12, 2018 | Parenting
As parents, we often experience feelings of frustration, anger, or discouragement when our child misbehaves and NOTHING that we try seems to work. We find ourselves asking: “What is wrong with my child?” or “What is wrong with my parenting?” After reading Positive...
by Crissy Himelstein | Oct 28, 2018 | Play Therapy
Anxiety in childhood Just like adults, children occasionally experience anxiety and some children are anxious more frequently or more intensely than others. Most of the time this is an understandable reaction to current circumstances and will dissipate with little...
