COUNSELING SERVICES FOR KIDS, TEENS, & PARENTS IN DALLAS, TX.

Learn how to navigate the complicated dynamics of divorce, and ensure your children end up happy and healthy on the other side. It happens. Parents get divorced. One of the main reasons our clients seek out therapy services is to help navigate this difficult, overwhelming, and confusing time for kids (and parents). How do we make sure the kids will not be scarred for life? Are we doing the right thing in trying to protect them? Below are some tips and tricks that answer these

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

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

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