For Infant/Young Child & Parent

At Kaleidoscope Wellness, we believe that we all make sense of ourselves and the world through our relationships. When kids are involved, there’s truly no such thing as ‘just’ working with kids—we always have to loop parents and caregivers. With that being said, there are a couple of therapeutic modalities that we use that are specifically for kids and parents that requires them being in the room at the same time.

some common issues we can help with:

Transitioning into parenthood

Parent/child lack of connection

Feeding/sleeping/transition/behavioral concerns in infants and toddlers

APPROACHES WE MAY USE:

Infant Mental Health

Prenatal-age 3. Infant Mental Health as a field of practice and research knows that children optimally develop within the context of safe and secure attachment relationships.  We also know that as adults, we all have our own early childhood experiences.  Caring for our own children often consciously, or more often than not sub-consciously, stirs up patterns from our own upbringing.  Working with infants and their parent(s) from this perspective can support them both in building a strong bond and resolving unhealthy patterns of interactions so they both can find peace and comfort in their relationship with one another. Click here to find out more.

Child-Parent Psychotherapy

Prenatal-age 5. Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) was really born out of Infant Mental Health work, except it specifically is useful in instances where kids and families have had stressful experiences. Instead of asking children and parents to heal separately, in CPP we support them in thinking about how traumatic experiences impact they way they relate to one another and help them heal together. Click here to find out more.

Dyadic Play therapy

Ages 3-12. Dyadic (child and parent/caregiver together) Child-Centered Play Therapy can be a powerful way kids to show us what it’s like. When parents enter the special world of play therapy with their children, and are willing to notice, be curious and wonder as their children let us into their worlds, the results can be incredibly reparative to both the child and the parent-child relationship.