Dr. Marla Litvack, psychologist

06/11/2020

04/22/2020

My favourite breathing technique. Can be used any time and any place; you always have your hand with you!

04/18/2020

Feel free to call 514-971-6153 or email Drlitvackmarla@gmail.com for a 20 minute consult to see how teletherapy benefit your family. Online parent coaching and child therapy sessions available.

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Please stay HEALTHY and SAFE!

04/16/2020

Here is Whale Breath, another breathing strategy. For the first few days, only practise when calm and relaxed. Once comfortable with the strategy, your child can try it when they begin to notice they are getting upset.

04/14/2020

When children are worried, angry, or overwhelmed they often have difficulty coping with these feelings. Learning to breathe helps children self-regulate and deal with their emotions. I will suggest a few breathing techniques over the next few days. Here’s Balloon Breath.

04/01/2020

Some helpful tips for creating a supportive, calm environment for our children while providing them with age-appropriate information.

03/23/2020

To ensure the physical health of my clients while providing much needed mental health services, I am now offering teletherapy. From the comfort of their own home, I can provide psychotherapy for children and support for their parents via Facetime, Skype, or Zoom. I specialize in anxiety, stress-management, and depression. Feel free to contact me for information: DrLitvackMarla@Gmail.com or 514.971.6153

03/23/2020

Important words to remember. Resilience, NOT panic.

This time period is a pivotal time in child development. Share your calm.

03/18/2020

Some very helpful thoughts that can help guide us in these most unusual times. Our children need structure and routine, but also require connectedness to family and friends and a sentence of fun!

Twelve tips from a highschool English teacher to help teens during a shutdown due to coronavirus

02/27/2020

Totally love this!!!

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at Woodlynde School about how parents can teach kids to take charge of anxiety and negative thinking for now and for a lifetime. I showed this slide early in the talk and asked the audience to tell me what they noticed. People commented about how narrow the space of safety feels to kids with anxiety. The space feels so small, kids can barely find room to stand, though the reality is very different. But how can kids know that without seeing for themselves? What I love about this drawing that my husband, Phil Stern, did for Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is how it captures so well the universal experience of overcoming fear-- namely: that it is a two-person job.

Kids have to step out themselves, parents can't swoop and rescue them. But by being there, showing kids it's OK to do things that feel uncomfortable at first, kids will get the signal that it's OK to go ahead and take that step, and many more, discomfort and all. Kids will come to see that anxiety gets it wrong every time and they don't have to miss out on life just because anxiety gets there first and decides this is scary! Kids can learn to override that message and see for themselves the great possibilities that lie just outside the limits of their fears.