A therapist with 10 years of experience explains why working with kids means working with their families. The grief and guilt parents carry often matters more than the child's presenting problem.
What is it like, you know, when you're working with kids and their whole family's worlds have pivoted around a condition that needs therapy?
Yeah. I think one of the big things that I've realized is, like, in my. I've been in it for 10 years now is when I first started, the families kind of scared me. Like, the parents, like, having that interaction kind of scared me. I was like, I just want to treat the child. Now I've recognized, like, how important that family is to the child. Like, even, like, our owner chose to make our colors the secondary colors, and we do that intentionally as, like, the family is the primary, and we're the secondary to that family, and that that's how we see ourselves, as a support network to the family. And so we have always, like, mentored and discussed that together. Of. A lot of these families are truly going through a grief process, and they feel guilty to even say that. And so just talk about it and say it and acknowledge it with them, and then help them walk through that to the point of acceptance, allows them to then step into advocating for what their child needs to become, everything that child can become.
Highbar PT’s Blueprint for Culture, Brand & Growth With Michelle Collie and Dave Pavao
Highbar PT’s Blueprint for Culture, Brand & Growth With Michelle Collie and Dave Pavao
