Lifted Mental Health Services

08/29/2022

Your child learns to develop healthy relationships beginning at birth and are constantly building upon this until about 18 months.
Learning trust comes directly by you attending to your child's basic needs and following their cues.

According to Erikson, the period from birth to 18 months of age is the most crucial in your child's life since it defines their worldview as well as their general personality.

08/29/2022

Florida Families!

If you are seeking resources for your little one, please get in touch with these services! Most are free, regardless of income. Some are based on income/need-based.

* Early Head Start

* Head Start

*Florida Healthy Families

*Florida Healthy Steps

*Florida Office of Early Learning

Early Learning Coalition Duval

08/25/2022

Active listening is a listening style that keeps you involved in a good way with your discussion partner. It is the process of actively listening while someone else speaks, summarizing and reflecting back what is said, and refraining from passing judgment or offering advise. When you exercise active listening, you give the other person the impression that they have been heard and valued.

08/24/2022

Quote of the Day:

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things."

08/23/2022

Child therapy can be used with a single child, a child and a parent or parents, or even multiple families. It is frequently done by a counselor or therapist who specializes in working with children and can provide parents and/or guardians with insights that may not be obvious at first.

We can address a wide range of difficulties, including:
Divorce, separation, or the loss of a loved one, trauma, bullying;
sexual exploitation, emotional exploitation, abuse in the physical sense, relocation of a family or child, addiction or substance misuse in the family, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder are examples of mental illnesses.

08/23/2022

Quote of The Day:

"Play is the work of childhood".

08/23/2022

Child therapy (also known as child counseling) is comparable to adult therapy and counseling in that it provides a safe environment and an empathic ear, as well as tools to help bring about change in thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Child clients, like adult clients, receive emotional and goal support during their sessions. They can concentrate on conflict resolution, understanding their own thoughts and feelings, and devising innovative solutions to their daily difficulties.

The only significant distinction between adult and child therapy is the emphasis on ensuring that children understand what is going on and that they are not alone.

08/20/2022

Play is an imperative part of growing and learning as a child. Here, they learn trial and error, mathematics, logic and form the basics needed for reading and writing. They identify their likes, dislikes and as parents and guardians, it's our job to feed that hungry child hunger for learning.

The lack of these opportunities can create an emotionally unstable child. When children are unable to understand and voice their basic wants and needs (the physical touch of a hug, or the emotional connection sparked when reading a book together) they react. Let's focus on watering their needs. Allow me to help!

08/20/2022

Allow me to introduce myself

My name is Kristen Pope. I am a Family Services Counselor who has a 16 year seasoned background in early childhood education. I hold many certificates and three degrees, between Business, Early Education and Psychology.

My entire life I have been fascinated with how children's minds work and how to mold their behavior. I want to help you maneuver your way through parenthood. It can be hard. It will bring its challenges, but it can also be rewarding.

You and your child both will need your own roadmap to help you achieve success during this time. Allow me to guide you!