Your Child is a Superhero!

Within each child lies a special soul that yearns to be expressed. It holds the innate characteristics that make a child unique and significant. Unfortunately, too often children’s soulful expressions are suppressed by significant figures in a child’s life who mean well but unknowingly invalidate the child’s internal gifts. Soulful Psychology® can help children and adolescents access the profound soul within them that serves as a superpower to change the world for the better. Children are profound beings and adults can help to access their children’s profound internal gifts.

Experience Our Revolutionary Approach to Child & Adolescent Therapy

Our expert therapists have extensive experience working with children and adolescents to help them grow and flourish. Children do gain from traditional therapeutic methods, however, what we have found is that the deeper work of internal exploration provided by the Soulful Psychology® approach enable children and adolescents to find meaning in their life and value in themselves.

Teaching children and adolescence coping mechanisms is very important, but we have recognized that doing so is only half the battle. Soulful Psychology® equips children with coping mechanisms but we also enable them to feel seen and heard, as doing so is a corrective emotional experience that fortifies their sense of wholeness and wellbeing. We work with children and adolescents to identify their root causes of pain and suffering, so they too can recognize the underlying issue and articulate to others, rather than act-out in an attempt to be seen and heard. Doing so helps children and adolescents see their own soulful characteristics and needs, and learn to care for them.

The Soulful Psychology® theoretical orientation proposes that children are born pure of soul. Children have innate characteristics that are expressions from their soul. However, societal influences such as media, overly critical teachers, peer bullying, aggressive or dismissive parenting, can cause the innate characteristics within a child’s soul to become repressed and unexpressed. As a result, a child might express their dismay through anger outbursts, misbehaviors at home or school, or depressive/detached or anxious moods.

Our main purpose as parents/caregivers is to facilitate the emergence of our children’s soulful expressions through nurturing their innate characteristics. Therefore, we take a holistic, wrap-around approach to child and adolescent therapy that works collectively with the child, and supplementally, with their parents/caregivers to modify and create a well balanced, inclusive approach to wellbeing.

We help children and adolescents:

• Recognize, validate, and provide structure to their innate soulful characteristics.
• Learn how to develop soulful connection within themselves, so they can recognize and become in control of emotions instead of taking them out on others.
• Develop self-mastery and self-control so they can approach situations in a calm and confident manner.
• Experience positive regard for their soulful expressions, which enable children to have stronger connections with self and others.
• Increase the resilience to face and overcome adversity.

Get Clarity About the Root Cause of the Problem and Heal

Parents, teachers, caregivers, and children themselves, often get stuck in addressing the symptom rather than recognizing the root problem that underlies a child or adolescent’s acting out behaviors. Children don’t usually have the capacity to verbally articulate in a self-controlled manner their feelings and unmet needs. It would be great if every child or adolescent could walk up to their parent/caregiver and say, “Excuse me my wonderful and amazing parent, may I have a moment of your time? I would like to inform you that I was hurt when it seemed that you dismissed my feelings.” (You might be reading this with a slight smirk and in your head thinking: “Yeah, right, my kid would never sound like that”).

This is because children need the foundation of learning how to recognize and understand their emotions so they can master expressing them in a way that can be heard. Often the modeling in their environment is a communication style of anger, frustration, or dismissiveness that socializes the child’s behavior. Also, independent of environment, some children have internal psychological dynamics that need assistance to heal and improve.

Many children and adolescents have very appropriate feelings about disruptive situations, they just tend to express their feelings in inappropriate ways. Our approach is to explore and understand meaning behind the inappropriate behaviors. Often, such behaviors are soulful expressions from the child about unmet needs, unprocessed emotional wounds, or unfulfilled desires for connection. For instance, we often see a child or adolescent who:

• Is apathetic, yet under the surface we uncover their sadness of abandonment.
• Is angry, yet underneath we expose their pain from loss.
• Is creating problems in the home, yet below ground we find their loneliness.
• Is aggressive or shut down, yet at the core we find their pain and fear.
• Is using risky behaviors, yet beneath the actions we identify their resentment and pressures.

Our revolutionary therapeutic methods provide extremely warm and caring support, life-skills for success, and identify root causes to symptoms underneath the surface to help children and adolescents grow and thrive.