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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 pediatrician rules out any physical causes, anxiety may be the underlying culprit. Childhood anxiety often first manifests as physical symptoms in children, such as headaches, stomach aches, fatigue, and the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep at night. Noticing the patterns of these symptoms can be helpful in determining whether they are c
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    Acceptance and Empathy in Parenting- How to Form Secure Attachments with Your Child
    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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    Play Therapy Back To School Special
    HeadFirst Counseling
    • Sep 6, 2016
    • 1 min

    Play Therapy Back To School Special

    Back to School Special! Have you been wondering what play therapy is, and if it's appropriate for your child? Now is the time to try it out- for free. For the month of September 2016, HeadFirst Counseling is offering a free initial parent consultation ($125 value!!) for parents interested in learning more about play therapy to determine if it is a good fit for their child. Play therapy is appropriate for children that are acting out emotionally, physically, or are having diff
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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 it just someone playing with my kid? The short answer- no. It’s much more than that. Play therapy is the most developmentally appropriate way of providing therapeutic services with children. Play therapists believe that play is the child’s language, and the toys are their words. Young children primarily think and process information symbolic
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