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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 innate desire to expand and explore their environment. Play is a child’s natural language and is medium for which the child assimilates new information from the environment to his or her knowledge of how the world works. Children use play to explore, learn, develop skills, gain insight, and make sense of their experiences. Unstructured play t
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Laura McLaughlin, M.Ed., LPC, RPT
- Dec 19, 2016
- 2 min
Acceptance and Empathy in Parenting- How to Form Secure Attachments with Your Child
Love and Acceptance- Our Guiding Forces in Parenting At HeadFirst Counseling, we help parents adapt an approach to parenting their children that focuses on developing secure attachments, so that the child is able to form secure attachments with others and explore his or her world freely. We believe that children must first feel secure with a primary caregiver before they can feel secure and regulated within themselves. The best and most efficient way to develop a secure attac
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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 the national Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s a topic that makes many people uncomfortable, but we can no longer afford to avoid the conversation. In order to stop the violence, we must give a voice to the victims and families of the victims. At HeadFirst, we have dedicated therapists with experience working specifically with victims of
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