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Parent-Child Relationship Healing

Building Strong Parent-Child Relationships:
Feel More Connected to Your Child Again! 

When your relationship with your child is difficult or challenging it can make everything else feel harder. The good news is, that relationship can grow, strengthen and heal. At Grace and Nature we want to give you the support and tools you need for your relationship with your child to thrive and continue to grow and get better. 

What This Program Is: 

A step-by-step, 10-session program to help you strengthen your relationship, reduce conflict, and parent confidently.

What It Can Offer: 

  • Strengthen the bond between parent and child

  • Build emotional language and self-regulation skills

  • Reduce anxiety, sadness, or behavior challenges

  • Create routines and rhythms that promote security

  • Nurture the child’s spiritual and emotional identity

What Issues Can it Address?

This program is designed to be tailored to the needs of the family and the child. Below are some of the common challenges it can help with:

  • Anxiety or excessive fears

  • Behavioral issues or emotional dysregulation

  • Divorce, loss, or family changes

  • Social struggles or bullying

  • Adoption or identity issues

  • Sleep, toileting, or developmental challenges

  • Spiritual questions or worries about God, death, or sin

We tailor each child’s care plan to their needs, not a one-size-fits-all protocol. 

Your child is not a problem to be solved. They are a person to be loved  and supported  through whatever they’re facing. We’re here to walk with your family through it all.

10 Sessions Topics & Tools 

Want to know what the program looks like before scheduling a consultation? You can see the full programming list below! 

  1. Understanding the Parent-Child Relationship:  

    • Learn: How the parent relationship is the most powerful tool to shape your child's behavior and how play can be one of your most powerful ways to support your child's emotional regulation and feelings of safety. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Responding to negative behaviors, reflective listening, attention bursts when time is limited. 

  2. Moving from Power Struggle to Building and Strengthening Relationship

    • Learn: How to conduct your own 30 minute play therapy session at home, including structure and do's and don'ts. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: We will give you practical ways to respond to difficult behaviors through intentional play and relationship, all while understanding the challenges of a real family schedule and life. 

  3. Increasing Predictability and Consistency 

    • Learn: Types of reactive and conflict cycles.  We will give you tools that will strengthen trust, cooperation, and connection. 

    • Tools in the Tools Box: Exit strategies for reactive cycles. Practice sessions with the therapist, you conduct, they coach! Communication skills tailored for your child. 

  4. Beginning Home Play Sessions: Supervision and Feedback 

    • Learn: Review your recorded home sessions with a seasoned therapist while. You will receive feedback and coaching so your not just making it up as you go along! 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Strategies for acknowledging feelings while still setting limits. Identifying and targeting appropriate alternative behaviors that work for you and your child. Tailoring routines that increase connection and relationship. 

  5. Child Development and Appropriate Responses

    • Learn: Continued review of your at home play therapy sessions. Your therapist will give you personalized feedback and coaching to improve your at home work. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Learn your child's particular developmental stage and how you can leverage the strengths of that stage to your and your child's advantage. Begin learning a behavioral correction and connection model to utilize at home. 

  6. Teaching Responsibility and Decision Making

    • Learn: Learn how to offer age-appropriate choices and guide you child in decision making paradigms that encourage independence while maintaining attachment to you, the parent!

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Choosing questions that help you connect with your child, how to teach your child decision making at their age and stage. 

  7. Building Esteem in your Child and in Your Self

    • Learn: Learn how to combine two of the skills from last session: decision making and target questions. When a child knows someone cares and they don't have to figure things out on their own, their sense of security grows! 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Handling consequences, esteem building words and saying to increase their own positive self talk. 

  8. Shifting from Praise to Encouragement

    • Learn: What is the difference between praise and encouragement We will also teach you how to use emotional co-regulation to reduce meltdowns and power struggles. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: How to encourage a sense of dignity and self-worth in your child. 

  9. Incorporating Skills Across Life 

    • Learn: How to identifying challenges and apply consistent boundaries that foster connection and security in the parent child relationship. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: Advanced limit setting with consequences outside of play sessions. 

  10. Graduation and Moving Forward

    • Learn: You will review how your relationship with your child has grown and changed. And because we never stop growing and getting better, you will identify areas where you can keep growing in your relationship with your child. 

    • Tools in the Tool Box: How to maintain your successes and growth! 

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