Good Reasons to Seek Therapy for Yourself or Your Child

For Your child...

• Wondering if your baby is attaching to you or feeling like you aren’t bonding.
• Concerns about your child’s eating or sleeping behaviors and mood. 
• Drug/alcohol problems in the family affecting your child.
• Chronic or terminal illness of a family member affecting your child.
• Long separations from your child that appear to be affecting his or her behaviors. 
• Concerns about your child’s ongoing tantrums, intense feelings or withdrawal. 
• Your child exhibits severe difficulty adjusting to family changes or divorce.
• Your child exhibits ongoing disruptive, behaviors – has trouble in school, has trouble with focus and concentration.
• Your child is preoccupied with death and dying. Is extremely withdrawn and/or isolating, exhibits frequent tearfulness, worries.
• Your child has regressed to younger behaviors (such as bedwetting or clinging) or is exhibiting any alarming change in former functioning.

You in relationship with your child...

• Prenatal or postpartum concerns: Feeling stressed by a high risk pregnancy or not adjusting to being pregnant -- or since the birth our your child. Feeling hopeless or overwhelmed.
• Stress and worries that have increased to the point of overwhelm since the pregnancy or birth or your child.
• Not knowing what is reasonable to expect from your child.
• Worried about passing emotionally painful family patterns to your child. 

You...

• On going un-ease with life, not being able to relax.
• Constant worry and burn out, overwhelm.
• Frequent tearfulness.
• Wishing you could just die.
• Unexplainable guilt and feeling worthless.
• A loss you can’t seem to move on from. 
• Panic attacks.
• Recurrent nightmares. 
• Intrusive traumatic memories.
• Cravings that are preoccupying you. 
• Lack of meaning in life.
• Inability to concentrate. 
• Co-dependency.