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COMING March 2022!

FEELINGS FIRST PARENTING

Join this online 12-week online course to learn how to shift your parenting approach to increase joy in your relationship with your child. You’ll learn how to utilize principles of play therapy in your home to make your home one that is more peaceful, more compassionate, and more joyful.

In this course, DC Play Therapy’s founder Christine, will share the unique perspective on parenting. As a play therapist of 16 years, Christine noticed that parents most often seek therapy for their child because they have become frustrated with their child’s disruptive behavior. In play therapy, therapists see these behaviors as a symptom of an unmet need. Rather than focusing on the response to the child’s behaviors, play therapists use compassion and playfulness to make a space for children to learn and heal themselves. Working through this online program will help you to use the same principles to help your children become more calm, confident and happy so that you can spend less time in a power struggle with your children and more time enjoying them.

The program consists of a weekly course and access to a closed online support group where the instructor will answer questions, expand upon the information in the videos, and give “homework” to help parents implement the principles of the program.

Module 1: Supporting your Child’s Emotional Needs to Decrease “Problem” Behaviors

Module 2: Using Basic Principles of Therapy to Enhance the Parent/Child Relationship

Module 3: Breaking the Cycle of Passing on Anxieties and Defense Mechanisms

Module 4: Using Joy and Playfulness to Help you to Raise a Happy & Successful Human