Our Approach
There are many factors that impact healthy attachment between the parent and child. Our goal is to create moments during therapeutic sessions for parents to explore how generational patterns of maladaptive parenting/responses to their child’s frustrated needs repeat itself in their role as parents. We will use parent and child dyadic session where talk and or play therapy is incorporated, to identify and disrupt the transmission of generational trauma between the parent and child. As clinicians, We intend on modeling a corrective emotional response to the child’s emotional and physical needs while at the same time helping the parent to use reflective functioning order to understand the underlying meaning of their child’s behavior. The desire is to relabel frustrating behavior so that parents may internalize it and view it from a different lens, thus producing a healthier response to the child’s emotional needs. Our goal is to also provide a nonjudgmental space for parents’ frustrating experiences as well, while also utilizing reflective functioning techniques to provide a holding space for parents to also fully experience their f own frustrated emotions in a safe space. In providing this safe space, the parent can process those emotions in a health manner that is conducive to the wellbeing of both mother and child.
Individual Therapy
Safe Space Talk’s goal is to also provide individual and family therapy to children, adolescents, and adults, to address symptoms of anxiety, depression and past or present traumas. This will be a collaborative effort between clinicians and clients to identify client centered goals based on client’s unique needs. Clinicians will continuously assess the ego functions of clients and their emotional stability as they explore traumatic events through therapeutic sessions. The goals is to provide short term relief for individuals and families to restore homeostasis and reduce stress in a short time frame, while finding meaning and resolve of past/present traumatic events. In family therapy specifically, clinicians will also be mindful of boundaries or lack thereof, within enmeshed families. The goal is to ultimately support our clients ‘mind, body, soul, and emotional stability.
Family/Group Therapy
There are many factors that impact healthy attachment between the parent and child. Our goal is to create moments during therapeutic sessions for parents to explore how generational patterns of maladaptive parenting/responses to their child’s frustrated needs repeat itself in their role as parents. We will use parent and child dyadic session where talk and or play therapy is incorporated, to identify and disrupt the transmission of generational trauma between the parent and child. As clinicians, We intend on modeling a corrective emotional response to the child’s emotional and physical needs while at the same time helping the parent to use reflective functioning order to understand the underlying meaning of their child’s behavior. The desire is to relabel frustrating behavior so that parents may internalize it and view it from a different lens, thus producing a healthier response to the child’s emotional needs. Our goal is to also provide a nonjudgmental space for parents’ frustrating experiences as well, while also utilizing reflective functioning techniques to provide a holding space for parents to also fully experience their f own frustrated emotions in a safe space. In providing this safe space, the parent can process those emotions in a health manner that is conducive to the wellbeing of both mother and child.
Parent Child Therapy:
Our goal is to use our clinical expertise to foster healthy attachment between the parent and child. I strongly believe in the trauma informed approach in clinical practice, as well as the theory and approach of Psychodynamic practice. It is my belief that a great deal of our families are unaware of how our own A.C.E.s ( adverse childhood experiences) continue to impact us in our adults lives as parents, partners and professionals. Carefully approaching our families from a nonjudgmental stance, with empathy, I will go down the road with the parent and child to explore and offset the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
