Serene Shores, LLC

07/30/2025

📚 Back-to-School Stress Is Real — For Kids and Parents 🎒

The return to school can bring a mix of emotions — excitement, nerves, overwhelm, and everything in between.

➡️ Kids may be worrying about friends, teachers, routines, or just the unknown.
➡️ Parents often carry the mental load of it all — lunches, schedules, emotional check-ins, and trying to hold it all together.

It’s okay if this season feels heavier than expected. You’re not alone — and neither is your child.

Therapy can help kids build confidence, manage worry, and adjust to changes — and it gives parents space to breathe, reflect, and reset too.

✨ Let’s make this school year feel a little more supported — together.

07/28/2025

🧠 Mental Health Matters — Every Day.

Mental health isn’t just something we talk about during a crisis. It’s something we nurture, protect, and prioritize—just like our physical health.

Here are a few gentle reminders for today:
✨ Rest is productive.
✨ Boundaries are healthy.
✨ You don’t have to earn your worth.
✨ Healing is not linear.

Whether you’re managing stress, navigating anxiety, healing from trauma, or simply trying to grow—your experience is valid.

If you’re struggling, you don’t have to go through it alone. Therapy is a brave step toward understanding yourself and building the life you want. 💬

🧡 Be kind to your mind.

03/07/2025

09/12/2024

We are expanding! Just picked up the keys to a new office in Lebanon!

06/06/2024

We have officially sold out of the 1,000 six flags tickets. Thank you all who participated.

05/22/2024

We still have spots for our FREE family photos!
Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association is offering free photography (both sittings and prints) for foster, adoptive, and kinship families in Central Missouri.
We will provide your family with one portrait of your family and one of your children. The photos will be on 10x10 canvases, suitable for hanging. We might use your family’s photo to adorn one of our four offices as well!

These photography sessions/prints are completely free, but you must register here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084FA9A72FA2F4C16-49301805-family

To qualify, you must be a foster/adoptive/kinship family in one of these 24 counties: Randolph, Howard, Boone, Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, Cooper, Pettis, Benton, Morgan, Cole, Osage, Gasconade, Maries, Miller, Camden, Pulaski, Phelps, Crawford, Dent, Texas, Laclede, Camden, and Texas.