Four Step Empathy Building
Stop and tune in: hit the pause button and tune in, no digital devices. Set and enforce the 4T rule: no texting, tapping, talking or TV viewing when others talk or are present. Look Face to face eye contact…
Stop and tune in: hit the pause button and tune in, no digital devices. Set and enforce the 4T rule: no texting, tapping, talking or TV viewing when others talk or are present. Look Face to face eye contact…
Parents tell me over and over again, “He is just not motivated…” Relentless requests to “Do your homework,” “Practice your piano,” or “Get off the Xbox and go outside and play,” go unheeded or done with grumbling. Some children do…
The practice of psychotherapy is quite a modern phenomenon, beginning as we know it with Sigmund Freud and his “talking cure” in the late 19th century Vienna. Various psychotherapies grew from this inception ground, framed within the modernist paradigm and…
The Myth of Perfect I have a lot of questions about what is happening to girls today. I feel bewildered as I observe girls in my counselling practice with low self-image, low confidence, challenged by social acceptance and…
For a child in grade 1 reading is the one developmental task which is foundation to school success, and may I be so bold as to say “life success.” In counselling and in my work through Oxford Learning I have…
I came to be interested in “anxieties and worries” in tweens and teens when I noticed how many of my friends’ daughters were struggling, seeing a counsellor, or on medication. This included my own daughter. At the time, we found…
Inner life, self-talk, and the ability to ponder develops a sense of self in children. In essence, inner dialogue works toward a child developing self-awareness, anticipation, organization of ideas, emotional regulation and resiliency. Children that develop inner dialogue tend to…