Foothills Family Counseling LLC

09/11/2025

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09/04/2025

Students need mental health information!
We are happy to be a guest speaker at clubs, organizations, youth groups, and classrooms! Contact us for more info!

09/04/2025

We've added to the lineup for the "Living History Pavilion" this Saturday at the SC Apple Festival. If there are any volunteers willing to help out for an hour or two with demonstrations and/or handing out information, please let us know. We hope to see you all on Sept 6th beside the Depot in Westminster! Please feel free to share this post!

07/17/2025

Update for those trying to get services with us.
We are overloaded and trying to put support staff in to catch up. Thank you for your patience! We apologize and are also honored that you are reaching out to us.

07/09/2025

Learning to Co-regulate with your child is a skill that you will be able to draw on during stressful times. It helps children and adults to manage emotions while maintaining connection. It will also help children to grow with a sense of security and the ability to eventually self-regulate. Surely, if you are the parent or the child, this is something we could all use regardless of age.

More information in my book "Guidance from The Therapist Parent"

Available on my website www.thetherapistparent.com or Amazon

07/05/2025

Happy 4th & God bless America

06/27/2025

Challenge coming soon!
Would you consider trading your child’s smart phone in for a flip phone????
Benefits will blow your mind

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Key highlights from the study:

- We investigated cue-related neural activity after 72 h smartphone restriction.
- Time-dependent changes were found in reward processing brain regions.
- Time-dependent changes were linked to dopaminergic and serotonergic transmission.
- Significant associations between parietal cortex activity and craving were found.
- Smartphone restriction modulates neural key hubs of salience and reward networks.

06/26/2025

One of the pivotal turns in therapy is throwing away victimhood and standing in strength and choice and authority over your own self. I call this the 50 yard line. Realizing you have the power to move and choose and the past does not have the right to control your present that is where the good work begins! Trauma is NOT your destiny

06/18/2025

Cool rainbow over the office this evening!

06/18/2025

Helicopter parenting says you can’t handle this and disables a child’s belief in their ability to tolerate and figure things out and also begin to learn about themselves.
Being present and available and supportive while your child figures it out if they need it, tells them you believe they can handle and grow and learn and you have their back and will pick them up if they need it

When kids act out, push back, or fall apart, it’s not defiance. It’s a signal.
A signal that something feels too big, too hard, or too overwhelming.

Instead of jumping straight to consequences, try this:
💬 “That was a big reaction — are you okay?”
💬 “Looks like something’s feeling tricky right now.”

This doesn’t mean we excuse the behaviour.
It means we meet the need behind it — and guide them from there.
Because connection is what builds cooperation. 💛

📘 Find more tools like this in my book Guidance from The Therapist Parent — available at www.thetherapistparent.com or via the link in bio.

06/17/2025

06/17/2025