Kamini Verma, LCSW: Child and Adolescent Therapist and Clinical Supervisor

01/15/2026

A Great Opportunity for Middle Schoolers in Georgetown.

12/22/2025

Institute of Child Psychology 💔

12/20/2025

11/24/2025

Many children struggle with eating at times, but ARFID is something very different.

It’s not fussy eating and it’s not about body image — it’s a fear-based, sensory-driven eating difficulty that can impact a child’s health, growth, and confidence.

Understanding ARFID helps us respond with support rather than pressure, and gives children the safety they need to rebuild trust in food.

10/31/2025

10/29/2025

Generation Mindful ❤️

10/22/2025

10/12/2025

Many of us grew up in homes where emotions were treated like something to fix, silence, or fear.
“Stop crying.”
“You’re being ridiculous.”
“You have nothing to be upset about.”

It wasn’t our emotions that scared the adults around us — it was our reaction to them.
So we learned to shrink. To hide what we felt. To believe that being emotional meant being too much.

But feelings don’t disappear just because they’re ignored. They wait — and they resurface later as stress, anxiety, or the deep sense that we can’t trust what we feel.

If we want to do better — for ourselves and our children — we have to unlearn that fear.
We have to remember that emotions aren’t the enemy. They’re messengers.

Our children don’t need us to make their big feelings disappear.
They need us to help them make sense of them.

That starts with co-regulation — meeting their chaos with calm, their tears with presence, their fear with safety.

Sit with them through the wave.
Name what’s happening.
Hold them if they reach for you.
And wait.

The calm will return — more quickly, more deeply — when their feelings are met, not managed.

Later, when the storm has passed, you can talk about it — to understand what they were really trying to say, once they’re calm enough to find the words.

But first, we have to let them have all of their emotions.

Because the goal isn’t to stop them from feeling.
It’s to raise children who don’t have to heal from being human. ❤️

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08/05/2025

Primal Trust Academy & Community with Dr. Cathleen King 💗