Divorced or Going Through Divorce? A Special Way to Help Kids and Parents With the Struggles.
Many of the families Child Therapy Chicago sees are
struggling with the emotional and physical challenges of separation and
divorce.
The children are acting out, regressing in behavior (e.g.,
clingy, tantrums, whining, etc.) they are having sleeping and eating
problems, becoming withdrawn, anxious, and angry, and sometimes start
having problems in school/daycare or with peers.
As parents, what can you do to help your kids and yourselves through this?
Even in the most
amicable of divorces, parents
are often emotionally overwhelmed, frustrated, tired, sad, and angry
and are trying to figure out how to successfully co-parent and keep
their children out of the middle of the divorce. These families need
support.
Child Therapy Chicago is dedicated exclusively to helping children (including toddlers and preschoolers) and their parents.
We provide a special program of psychodynamically oriented play and talk therapy to children whose
parents are going through divorce.
The process begins with a 3 session
assessment to get a sense of the children's development, the family
history, and how the children are experiencing the divorce.
Subsequent sessions may be individual with the children, with both parents and
children present, and/or with the parents alone to work on issues of
co-parenting and understanding their children's needs during this time
of change.
We will stay
with the family and serve as an ongoing source of support as long as
needed, through and beyond the divorce.
