Parenting Challenges: How Therapy Parent Consultation Can Provide Guidance
Parental challenges are eased by therapy consultations. These meetings are a safe place to bring up any concerns, discuss progress and goals, and talk about parenting wins and challenges.
Rebuilding Trust after Trauma
Therapy can help people identify and address the source of trust issues. Being unable to trust can destroy friendships, careers and marriages. Learning to trust again is not impossible. Post-trauma, we assist in rebuilding shattered trust, promoting healing.
Hot Under the Collar? Heat Can Make You Angry and Even Aggressive.
Exposure to hot summer temperatures increases your heart rate, which leads to discomfort. Being uncomfortable can affect how you express yourself and color the way others interpret your words and actions. We offer coping strategies for heated moments.
ADHD in Adults: Strategies for Managing Distraction and Impulsivity
Standard treatments typically involve medication, education, skills training and psychological counseling. A combination of these is often the most effective treatment. However and psychologist evaluation is key.
Keeping on Track: how to maintain healthy habits for students during summer break
We provide guidance to students in maintaining healthy summer habits, ensuring academic preparedness for the next school year.
Coping with Panic Attacks: Strategies for Grounding Oneself and Regaining Emotional Stability
Cognitive behavioral therapy can strengthen the neural connections between the frontal cortex and the amygdala. This makes panic sufferers more adept at talking themselves down off the ledge. Panic attack sufferers can alos benefit from grounding techniques to alleviate or lesson sudden intense feelings of fear that cause physical symptoms.
Academic Underachievement? How a comprehensive evaluation can help mobilize a student’s strengths
This often encompasses a group of disorders. Academic underachievement is addressed through evaluations and harnessing students’ strengths for improvement. We can review structure and allocation of rewards and student priorities that compete for their time and attention, among other focus areas.
Empty Nest Syndrome: Coping with Children Leaving Home
Parents grappling with an empty nest can benefit from coping strategies by psychologists, ensuring emotional well-being. In separation, empty nest syndrome is normal: you are not alone. Some parents more susceptible than others.
Leaving the Nest? How to help your new college student adjust to life on campus.
A parent and a child experience different things. Leaving home for college can be a bittersweet mix of anticipation, anxiety, and sadness. Some children are more susceptible than others to uncertainty.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: More Than Just Disliking Your Reflection
Some approaches: working on steering conversations away from appearance or what are seen as flaws. Avoiding trying to make someone feel better by talking about your own insecurities or flaws. Allowing space to talk freely and openly about feelings in a professional setting. Body dysmorphia’s deeper implications may need to be explored, beyond mere self-image […]
Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness
Public stigma involves the negative or discriminatory attitudes that others have about mental illness. Psychologists advocate for acceptance and understanding. When someone with a mental illness is called ‘dangerous’, ‘crazy’ or ‘incompetent’ rather than unwell, it is an example of a stigma.
PTSD and Trauma Recovery: Finding Your Way Back to Normalcy
PTSD victims have a journey back to normalcy post-trauma. There are a handful of PTSD types from Normal Stress Response to Complex PTSD. There are several options for treatment. Take the first step by scheduling an initial assessment with us.
Anxiety Disorders: Understanding and Managing Chronic Worry
Chronic worry can be indicative of anxiety disorders, with a psychologist offering coping mechanisms, treatment can be effective in managing anxiety.Although anxiety can manifest as, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), post-holiday blues, financial stress from holiday spending, pressure to meet new year resolutions, anxiety disorders as a clinical condition do not necessarily have a straightforward or […]
Overcoming Depression: Recognizing the Signs and Seeking Help
It’s normal to feel down once in a while, but if you’re sad most of the time and it affects your daily life, a psychologist can pinpoint clinical depression symptoms and advocate for early interventions, promoting mental well-being.
Recognizing OCD: its more than counting, cleaning, and checking
OCD’s scope goes beyond common perceptions; we can shed light on its broader manifestations offering tools for awareness and treatment
The Influence of Peer Pressure: Guiding Kids through Adolescence
It’s a fact of life, adolescents face peer pressure. With psychologists’ guidance working with parents and children, promoting confident self-decisions gives children a greater ability to evaluate their environment and make better decisions.
Social Skills Training: Helping Children Navigate Friendships and Conflicts
Social skills training equips children with tools for effective friendship navigation and conflict resolution. This can reduce the the anxiety and confusion children often have as they engage with children and adults.
When is it OK to Lie?
The first time that a parent catches a child in a lie, it may come as an unpleasant surprise, but psychological research has found that lying is a normal part of childhood. In fact, it’s a developmental milestone.
Behavioral Challenges in Childhood: When to Seek Professional Help
For childhood behavioral challenges, we can determine when professional help is warranted. Contact us for an initial consultation.
Understanding Children’s Sleep: Common Issues and Solutions
Delving into your children’s sleep patterns, we address common issues and provide solutions for restful nights.
The negative impact of too much screen time on children’s attention skills
We teach both parents and children about excessive screen time impacting children’s dwindling attention skills, suggesting moderated usage and techniques to support your child’s balanced screen engagement.
How Parents Can Help Their Children Cultivate Healthy Friendships
We offer parents guidance on promoting and nurturing their children’s healthy friendships and in this digital age, how to recognize helpful digital communications within the child’s social network and avoid harmful behaviors.
Bullying and Its Psychological Impact on Children
The profound psychological effects of bullying on children can stay with a child for life, with psychologists offering coping and healing strategies. In most chases, the sooner the intervention the bette the outcomes.
Gifted Testing
Gifted testing by professional will identify exceptional talents, ensuring tailored educational experiences above and beyond what the Dade County School System may provide. It identifies you child’s unique strengths and learning needs, enabling tailored educational opportunities that foster their intellectual and personal growth.
Parenting Consultation: Healthy parenting communication styles
In many cases, just a few parenting consultations with a trained psychologist can make a world of difference by fostering healthy communication strategies for effective child-rearing.