A Child's Song Support Services

06/26/2025

🚨 BIG NEWS! 🚨
Our book is finally here! 💚

After a year of behind-the-scenes work, Andrea & Meagan are thrilled to announce:
📘 Healing Big Hurts: Understanding Your Role in Your Child’s Trauma Therapy

This is more than a book—it’s a guide for parents, caregivers, and professionals supporting children and youth through trauma recovery.

📅 Official release: September 30, 2025
🛒 Pre-orders open NOW!

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Big-Hurts-Understanding-Therapy/dp/1683738616

If you’re raising or working with a child affected by trauma, this book is for YOU. Let’s change the way families heal—together. 🙌

Please share and help us spread the word about this powerful new resource. 💚

We offer easy, convenient returns with at least one free return option: no shipping charges. All returns must comply with our returns policy.

05/20/2025

Just 6 spots available for this summer youth camp in Surrey, BC. ☀️

An amazing opportunity for youth to connect with other adoptees while learning about and practicing social skills & emotion regulation. 💚

Message the office for more information and a registration form! info@achildssong.ca

04/28/2025

Make sure you are on our mailing list! We are going to be announcing summer programs very soon and the mailing list is always the first to find out! 💚 https://achildssong.ca/

04/24/2025

🎧 At A Child’s Song, healing begins with listening.

We’re offering the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) — a gentle, music-based therapy designed to help children feel safe, connected, and calm in their bodies.

SSP supports the nervous system using specially filtered music that speaks directly to the part of the brain that listens for safety.

Whether your child struggles with anxiety, sensory sensitivities, trauma, or emotional regulation — SSP can help soften stress responses and create space for trust, play, and connection.

💚Trauma-informed
🎵 Rooted in science
🌱 Delivered with care by A Child’s Song
Curious if SSP is right for your child?
Send us a message or visit https://achildssong.ca/safe-sound-protocol-ssp/

04/23/2025

We offer the Safe and Sound Protocol here at A Child’s Song. SSP is a powerful intervention that we support you to engage with from the comfort of your own home. This article is a beautiful summary and explanation of why SSP helps brains and bodies respond more effectively to their environment. This isn’t just for kids. Adults benefit from SSP too! Message us for more info!

Learn about what your child's behaviour means and how that connects to a stress response, as well as the neuroscience of safety.

04/15/2025

Sometimes getting to therapy is hard for parents and kids. Your child or teen might be refusing to acknowledge they are struggling or don’t believe therapy will help. It can also be difficult to squeeze in another weekly or biweekly appointment when the family calendar is so full. But don’t want you or your child to continue the current pattern of behavior or stay stuck in parent teen conflict. We have some helpful resources that are specifically designed to support families that have been impacted by trauma. You can start the healing journey for yourself and your child or teen with one of these three options. 💚

Parent Support and Coaching - Book an online session to speak with a therapist who specializes in developmental trauma. Learn some practical tools for responding to your child that improve relationships and shift behaviour. https://achildssong.ca/service/parent-coaching/ 💚

Safe and Sound Protocol - This is an online program using filtered music to address nervous system dysregulation and address symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, autism and trauma. https://achildssong.ca/safe-sound-protocol-ssp/ 💚

Online Courses - Explore 5 topic specific online courses that come with a parent workbook and will help you navigate common challenges fo children and teens who have experienced early trauma. https://achildssong.ca/courses/ 💚

Start with the one that makes the most sense for you and your family. Just taking one step can start the healing process for everyone. If you have questions about what might be the best fit for you please feel free to reach out https://achildssong.ca/contact-us/ 💚

03/24/2025

If you are feeling pressure to help your child catch up in all the areas of development impacted by trauma remember that nothing is more important than a safe connected relationship with a parent or caregiver. This is the foundation on which all other aspects of development can be built. It’s ok to hold off on other interventions while you focus on the parent child relationship. Without the solid base of safety and connection children struggle to learn and grow!

💚 If you are looking for parent support from a clinical therapist who understands developmental trauma we are here to help.

01/13/2025

Just 4 spots left! 💚

Join this unique 8 week online parenting group with Andrea Chatwin starting January 22 💚

Info & registration https://achildssong.ca/event/parenting-children-with-developmental-trauma-filling-in-the-gaps-of-missed-experiences/ 💚

12/21/2024

Check out our latest blog ‘An Adoptee’s Reflections on Christmas’ by Dr. Joanne Crandall. 🎄

Join our clinical psychologist as she reflects on both her lived experience and the insight she has gained from supporting adoptive families through the holiday season. From discussing expectations ahead of time to avoiding surprises and offering breaks the strategies in this blog will help you ensure Christmas feels safe, connected and meaningful for everyone.

Certainly, by this time the sights and sounds of Christmas are in full swing. Hallmark movies are readily available, always ending in a 90-120 second kiss before the end of the movie (don’t ask how I know that detail). Holiday plans to see family and friends are being made, and we are constantly b...

12/11/2024

This is a NEW 8-week ONLINE parenting group with Andrea Chatwin designed to walk you through a process of linking your child’s current struggles with missed development experiences. This insight will open up a wide range possibilities for ‘filling in the gaps’ and providing new experiences that can override early learning.

Parents will gain a deeper understanding of how the foundational experiences their children missed impact the way they feel about themselves and others, particularly adults and attachment figures. Participants will have an opportunity to draw connections between missed developmental stages and current behavior and coping strategies that are problematic at home, school and community. Strategies for filling in the gaps of experiences missed from the first twelve years of life will be explored in depth. Parents will be encouraged to recognize when and respond therapeutically to children and youth with uneven development, often behaving in ways that seem much younger and older than their chronological age. 💚

Participants will be guided in developing a customized parenting plan for their child(ren) that considers the specific impacts of their early history and what family-based interventions will ‘fill in the gaps.’ Group discussions breakouts will encourage sharing of experiences, challenges and successes to build a sense of community amongst others who understand what it’s like to navigate complex family dynamics.💚

This program is most suitable for families who are well past the early transition stages and are struggling with chronic behaviors that have not been resolved following a stable placement with a family committed to meeting needs. The material will be most applicable to anyone parenting children between the ages of 5 and 17. 💚

https://achildssong.ca/event/parenting-children-with-developmental-trauma-filling-in-the-gaps-of-missed-experiences/

This 8-week ONLINE parenting group program is an opportunity to learn about and explore the gaps in development that children are left with after experiencing trauma during their early years. The goal of this program is to help families build strong, stable connections that withstand the stress of t...

12/02/2024

Last call for this unique workshop on supporting your child through trauma therapy. If your child or youth is already in therapy or you are planning to start in the new year, this workshop is for YOU! Supporting your child in therapy is an emotionally demanding experience for both parents and kids and has the potential to tap into your own triggers. 💚

Meagan VanDiermen has some incredible insights, tips and hacks to offer parents that will help make the experience feel better for everyone. Be sure to bring your questions for the Q & A discussion part of this workshop. 💚

https://achildssong.ca/event/supporting-your-child-through-trauma-therapy/

11/28/2024

Join us for our final ONLINE workshop of 2024! This is an important one. If you are thinking of starting or are currently supporting your child through the process of trauma therapy this practical workshop is a must for you! 💚

A parent’s participation in their child’s trauma therapy sessions is the key ingredient for deep and meaningful healing. This workshop will break down the important information and skills you need to feel comfortable and confident in the process. 💚

Meagan VanDiermen is a trauma therapist who combines modalities such as Lifespan Integration and OEI with her expertise in developmental trauma to help children and youth process difficult experiences. She will walk parents through the process and how their presence in the therapy room can support the healing process. 💚

https://achildssong.ca/event/supporting-your-child-through-trauma-therapy/