Therapy for Children in Sioux Falls, SD
You aren’t a bad parent. In fact, it seems like you’ve put more work into helping your child to overcome life’s challenges than the average parent.
You stayed awake at night, agonizing over the best decisions for your child, often times over-thinking what the best way was to handle these behaviors, and yet these behaviors have continued to get worse and worse.
You feel like you’ve tried everything and you know that you need some help, but now that you’re considering getting your child into counseling, you have this cloud of guilt and worry surrounding you.
- I’m looking into play therapy for my kid. What does that say about me as a parent?
- I’m looking into play therapy for my kid. What does that say about me as a parent?
- Is my child crazy? No one else I know is taking their child to counseling. Maybe I should just keep trying things on my own.
- I know the problems are real and serious, but I just can’t bring myself to accept that my toddler / preschooler needs therapy. Isn’t that way too young?
I’m here to tell you that you are NOT a bad parent. The challenges your child is experiencing are not all your fault and have occurred because of one of the following reasons: Unique Personality • Emotional Event
Your Child Has a Unique Personality
First, it’s likely that you simply have a unique child who has a way of experiencing and responding to the world that is different than those other children who aren’t going to counseling. Your approaches so far to try to help your child to cope with those challenges and improve those behaviors have been valiant efforts, educated by the hours of research and care that you put into trying to help your child.
But ultimately, because your child has a different personality than your friends’ kids or the other kids at daycare and preschool, even though those tried and true approaches work for other parents, they just don’t seem to work when you use them.
You’re frustrated and want to stop wasting time using those discipline techniques that don’t work, and start using techniques that will actually work with the kid you’ve got (not the image of the child you thought you’d have during those pregnancy day dreams).
An Emotional Event or Experience
Another reason that your child may be experiencing some challenging behaviors is because—despite your best efforts—you were unable to protect your child from some frustrating, emotionally-draining experiences that have now resulted in your child using some challenging behaviors as a response or coping mechanism to these events.
You’ve tried everything, but despite your best intentions, you haven’t been able to help your child to get through this experience and come out on top. You’re hopeful that talking to a counselor might give your child that extra boost needed to overcome these experiences and return to a somewhat normal childhood again.
How Counseling Can Help
Support That Makes a Difference
Therapy That Feels Like Play
Fun First, Learning Along the Way
Areas We Support: Therapy for Children
Helping kids through life’s challenges with therapy tailored to their needs. From emotional support to behavioral growth, we’re here to help.
Common Questions before Starting Counseling
Here are some common questions to help you understand our counseling services for children.
If you’re worried that bringing your child to counseling makes you a bad parent, don’t be. You’re a good parent, and your child just needs a little extra help learning the skills that will help them to make better choices and know how to cope with challenges better. I’ll help you both to make sure that happens.
If you’re worried that bringing your child to counseling makes you a bad parent, don’t be. You’re a good parent, and your child just needs a little extra help learning the skills that will help them to make better choices and know how to cope with challenges better. I’ll help you both to make sure that happens.
If you’re worried that bringing your child to counseling makes you a bad parent, don’t be. You’re a good parent, and your child just needs a little extra help learning the skills that will help them to make better choices and know how to cope with challenges better. I’ll help you both to make sure that happens.
If you’re worried that bringing your child to counseling makes you a bad parent, don’t be. You’re a good parent, and your child just needs a little extra help learning the skills that will help them to make better choices and know how to cope with challenges better. I’ll help you both to make sure that happens.
Therapists that Specialize in Child Therapy
