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    How To Decrease Environmental Anxiety in your Child
    Laura Orr, LMFT, RPT
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    How To Decrease Environmental Anxiety in your Child

    What HBO's Big Little Lies taught us about climate change anxiety Climate change has been an increasingly prevalent topic of conversation...
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    Helping Children Cope with Divorce
    Lexie Sikes, LMSW
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    Helping Children Cope with Divorce

    How to navigate the decision to proceed with a divorce with your child's best interest in mind. By Lexie Sikes, LMSW Therapist, HeadFirst...
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    Monkey See Monkey Do: 5 Ways to Create More Empathetic Children
    HeadFirst Counseling, Dallas TX
    • Jul 23, 2017
    • 5 min

    Monkey See Monkey Do: 5 Ways to Create More Empathetic Children

    5 Ways to Create More Empathetic Children Are you a parent that wants to cultivate a sensitive side to your child? Monkey see monkey do...
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    How to Increase Your Child's Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
    Laura McLaughlin, M. Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Jun 9, 2017
    • 4 min

    How to Increase Your Child's Self-Esteem and Self-Worth

    Raising resilient and positive children by fostering their development of self-esteem and self-worth. Self-esteem is essential for...
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    Understanding Your Three Year Old
    Laura McLaughlin, M. Ed., LPC, RPTd., LPC, RPT
    • May 15, 2017
    • 4 min

    Understanding Your Three Year Old

    Help! There is a Threenager in My Home! As your child transitions from 3 to 3 ½, the cooperative, easy going attitude of your child seems...
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    To Worry, or Not to Worry- Overcoming Childhood Anxiety
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Apr 14, 2017
    • 4 min

    To Worry, or Not to Worry- Overcoming Childhood Anxiety

    Learn the tell-tale signs of childhood anxiety and ways to respond to encourage growth and resolution within your child. Childhood...
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    How to Survive a Temper Tantrum
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Feb 20, 2017
    • 5 min

    How to Survive a Temper Tantrum

    How to Survive a Temper Tantrum: Learning to Connect to Your Child Before You Redirect Kids cry. A lot. Sometimes they cry for no...
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    Should my Kid Learn to Code?
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Feb 5, 2017
    • 5 min

    Should my Kid Learn to Code?

    Coding and Kids- How to Parent in a Technology Focused World When to introduce your child to coding games and intellectually stimulating...
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    Play Helps Your Child Learn and Grow
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Jan 30, 2017
    • 4 min

    Play Helps Your Child Learn and Grow

    Unstructured Play Time and Healthy Brain Development Using play to help your child reach optimal development. Children are born with an...
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    Recognizing Signs of Childhood Anxiety
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Jan 17, 2017
    • 2 min

    Recognizing Signs of Childhood Anxiety

    Learn to recognize signs of anxiety in your child. Does your child complain of frequent headaches or stomach aches? If a visit to the...
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    Setting an Intention to Connect with Your Child
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Jan 1, 2017
    • 3 min

    Setting an Intention to Connect with Your Child

    Setting an Intention to Connect with Your Child Make 2017 the year that you bring playfulness back to parenting and reconnect with your...
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    Why This Christmas Gift Hack Made My Heart Break
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Dec 22, 2016
    • 2 min

    Why This Christmas Gift Hack Made My Heart Break

    Why This Christmas Gift Hack Made My Heart Break When it comes to getting children to behave, threatening them or using external rewards...
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    Creative Arts Expression for Increased Regulation and Creativity in Children
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Dec 13, 2016
    • 2 min

    Creative Arts Expression for Increased Regulation and Creativity in Children

    Increase your child's sense of imagination and creativity with expressive arts activities. Children are born to explore their world. They...
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    Increased Family Time Leading to Increased Stress and Conflict.
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Nov 21, 2016
    • 2 min

    Increased Family Time Leading to Increased Stress and Conflict.

    How to cope with family conflict this holiday season. Sometimes too much family time can be a bad thing. Some families delight in the...
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    October 2016 National Bullying Prevention Month
    Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Oct 7, 2016
    • 2 min

    October 2016 National Bullying Prevention Month

    Efforts to Decrease Bullying in Dallas, TX www.stompoutbullying.org It is a known fact that bullying is widespread. It is in our schools,...
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    More Playtime for Better Academic Achievement
    Laura McLaughlin, M. Ed., LPC, RPTd., LPC, RPT
    • Sep 11, 2016
    • 2 min

    More Playtime for Better Academic Achievement

    More Recess Time Leads to Better Focus and Academic Performance at School As a play therapist, I am constantly talking to parents and...
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    Parenting and Adoption Resources in Dallas, TX- HeadFirst Counseling
    Laura McLaughlin, M. Ed., LPC, RPT
    • Aug 15, 2016
    • 2 min

    Parenting and Adoption Resources in Dallas, TX- HeadFirst Counseling

    Parenting and Adoption Resources in Dallas, TX- HeadFirst Counseling There has been a lot of talk during the Rio Olympics regarding...
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    Keep Your Kids Safe- Learn Ways to Prevent & Protect from Sexual Abuse
    Laura McLaughlin, LPC, RPT
    • Apr 25, 2016
    • 4 min

    Keep Your Kids Safe- Learn Ways to Prevent & Protect from Sexual Abuse

    April- Sexual Assault Awareness Month This blog post is dedicated to the topic of sexual assault and sexual abuse in honor of April being...
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    What is Play Therapy
    Laura McLaughlin, LPC, RPT
    • Apr 11, 2016
    • 3 min

    What is Play Therapy

    What is Play Therapy? This is one of the most common questions that gets asked at the HeadFirst office: What exactly is play therapy? Is...
    30 views0 comments
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