Creative Family Counseling, LLC is actively seeking to add a fully Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or provisionally licensed (APC) to our private practice who is passionate about working with children and their families. Play Therapy and faith-based counseling experience required. Candidate will get complimentary play therapy supervision toward RPT. Please apply at Indeed!  ..read more

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In her article Self-Regulation Doesn’t Exist!! Robyn Gobbel, LCSW explains the importance of co-regulation and how we as parents or caregivers , even trusting loving partners can be so instrumental in helping others regulate their emotions. As Robyn states so well “What really works isn’t teaching self-regulation. It’s giving children experiences of co-regulation over and over and over again. Until their brains literally take in and imprint the regulated adult. Then the coregulation becomes internalized…but it’s still coregulation.” That’s what I love about Child Parent Relationship Train ..read more

As parents, we know it is our role to prepare our children for the world they will live in. But we also want to protect them. We experience their growing independence and we become fearful. How do we navigate all these choices and freedoms the world offers them? How do we guide them? Instruct them? While also protecting and sheltering them? Susan Merrill, founder of iMom and author of “The Passionate Mom: Dare to Parent in Today’s World” offers some great guidance in her 26 page Ebook  “How To Prepare Your Kids for the World”. She helps parents, such as you and I, navigate our role as Wa ..read more

As I’m trying to get my own life more organized this year, I think of all the parents, tween and teenagers that want this year to be different!  In 2017, clutter just seemed to pile up everywhere, on the floor, kitchen table, in front of doors, in bedrooms, living rooms, and then carried on over to school lockers. As a result, they couldn’t find anything, papers got misplaced, ripped or even lost and assignments are forgotten. Stress builds up, panic sets in, kids get overwhelmed and shut down. Parents are praying for an end to all this – and hoping this year grades will go up, pap ..read more

Kristina Cowan, author of When Postpartum Packs a Punch has recently been interviewed by Mark Williams of Fathers Reaching Out. Enjoy the interview below. via Kristina Cowen Interview with Fathers Reaching Out. — Women’s Health Today ..read more

Love this post Hot cocoa breathing sensory art activity  by Kristina Marcelli Sargent who has a breadth of creative therapy interventions!! I”m definitely going to be doing a lot of “hot cocoa” breathing with my clients this Fall and Winter ..read more

One of the joys of my work as a therapist is not only engaging in this exciting and fun medium of play therapy, but also teaching parents how to connect with their children and leade them into learning to play in a therapeutic way. After all , the children spend more time with their parents and as parents we have such a powerful impact on our children. Why not be an essential instrument of change!  Over the years, one my favorite modalities is Child Parent Relationship Training. One particular mother had experienced such a profound impact in her own life and relationship with her child an ..read more

HI There! So I’ve embarked on this new journey called Private Practice and I’m now the owner of a wonderful group practice with amazing therapists! I’ve been encouraged to blog – to keep people informed, to show some authenticity, and be relevant with this technologically inclined generation.  So here I go…This is my very first post. Ever! I’m not a blogger – so this is SO new to me! But I am excited about what will flow from it. Whether I have some inspirational moments to share. Quotes. Scripture Passages. Or  I do enjoy expressing myself. As my clients can attest, i am expressive ..read more