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What to Consider When Considering Adoption
When you seek out personal adoption stories, the dominant narrative has been that of adoptive parents for years. Recently, however, adult adoptees started sharing their experiences. They are giving a voice to their generation and the current generation of child...
Increasing Working Memory
Our second edition of our blog series, "Executive Functioning Activities" is here! If you missed the first in the series, go check it out! Remember, these activities are meant to help families incorporate creative and fun ways into addressing common areas of concern....
Navigating ADHD as a Family
One of the challenging things about being a parent is that your child doesn’t come with a manual. This is as true for a parent whose job title is “pediatric therapist” as anyone else. While mulling over what I felt most informed to talk about, I realized that several...
Increasing Impulse Control
Welcome to the first edition of IFC's newest blog series, "Executive Functioning Activities." These activities are meant to help families incorporate creative and fun ways into addressing common areas of concern. First on the list... increasing impulse control! Name...
College Students: 5 Things to Know About Therapy
Has it hit you yet that you are in college?! Maybe it has, and you can’t even remember life before college, or you might be at that phase where you are wondering if your college days will ever end. Or maybe the transition between high school and college is a blur...
Show some love – give a shout out!
The work of our therapists... ...is both hard and beautiful. It isn’t easy to give so much for other people’s children, to put yourself in the way of all the awful things that land on young people, to hear them and guide them in a world that sometimes feels broken,...
CBT in a Nutshell
Throughout treatment, a therapist will use therapeutic perspectives to assist the client in making progress toward their individual goals. One of those perspectives could be Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is a therapeutic modality that has shown to be...
Family Feelings: 3 Tips to Sharing More!
You may regularly share as a family about your day-to-day, but when it comes to feelings talk, it gets too uncomfortable! First, I would encourage you as the parent to explore why this is the case for you. I would then ask myself why sharing feelings as a family is...
New Year’s Parenting Resolutions
When I was a kid, my family had a New Year’s Eve tradition to write down our resolutions for the upcoming year, put them in an envelope, and tuck them away to review for the last day of the year. Although it felt good to open up and realize achievements from the...
Divorce Through the Eyes of A Child
When To Tell Your Child You're Getting a Divorce As much as it may seem easier to avoid and delay telling your child you're getting a divorce, you need to face this head on, sooner rather than later. Children pick up on what is going on around them and they know...