RCPC Counseling and Therapy
RCPC was created and designed to help highly sensitive, deep feeling and neurodivergent kids self-express, regulate and heal to create healthier, happier selves.
I provide individual counseling to children in collaboration with their caregivers with a focus on repairing ruptures in the family system through nervous system based interventions so that they can be more regulated and connected.
Are you a parent who is looking for you own support in learning how to better parent your highly sensitive, deep feeling or neurodivergent children?
Click HERE for Parent Coaching offerings with me through my coaching business, Sensitivity Is Strength Coaching
Managing the world as a highly sensitive or deep feeling person is a tough job and the world doesn’t accommodate!
So much can happen that leaves us feeling frustrated, ashamed and overwhelmed, turning our households into emotional battlefields.
Do any of these challenges sound familiar?
Your child gets overwhelmed easily leading to avoidance, panic, crying or shutdown. Small things feel like big things and others’ “helpful” advice isn’t helping. Nobody seems to get your kid and how hard new or uncertain things can be.
You are getting calls or discipline consequences from your child’s school due to their behaviors and home is just as hard. Maybe they already have a diagnosis and you have been given alphabet combos like Aud/ADHD, SPD, ODD or PDA. You know their emotional regulation is off – you see it every day but what are you supposed to do about it? Your child excels in some areas but is struggling in others. Your gut tells you they need something different though no one seems to be able to figure out what. You want to advocate for them but nothing you do is working.
Your child is highly sensitive, has sensory sensitivities and/or is anxious – avoids the unknown and worries about new things, being alone, others’ perceptions, etc. that results in school refusal, sleep issues, meltdowns or anxiety attacks and you have no idea what to do to help break the anxious spin and help them calm.
Your child is great at school and with other adults but extremely challenging at home with you: cries easily, melts down, refuses to listen, combative, pushing limits, etc. You’ve tried kindness, you’ve tried yelling, you’ve tried rewarding, you’ve tried punishing but nothing seems to be working and you’re turning into a parent you don’t want to be!
You say to yourself… “Everyone else’s kid seems to be roll with the punches (so to speak). Why can’t mine?”
You don't have to exist in the overwhelm!
There’s no perfect, one size fits all answer (and no magic wand) but it can get better!
Behavior modification (charts, plans. etc.) can produce some short-term success (or have the opposite effect for some kids) and tend not to work long term. They can also foster an unhealthy focus on outcome instead of on process and connection. That’s not the way.
Instead, we have to focus on emotional regulation, self-acceptance and understanding and skill building that works.
When we know better we do better.
Let’s create a plan together to create less hurt and more connection and calm within your child and your family.
