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Specialty: Children, Youth, Emerging Adults, Families, Trauma, ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Assessments, Therapy
Specialty: Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Psycho-educational Assessments, Assisting students with Learning and Developmental Disabilities in the areas of cognitive, learning, memory and emotional issues and mentoring their families, Marriage and Family Therapy, Mastering Life Transitions and Unexpected Events, Helping parents to understand and navigate the school system and learn about available community resources
Specialty: Children, Teens, Adults, Couples, Families, Substance Use , All Mental Heath Diagnoses, Emotional Dysregulation, Stress, Anger Issues, Trauma, Self-Acceptance, Self-Esteem, Parenting, Infidelity, Self-Care, Forgiveness and Letting Go, Grief and Loss, Relationship Issues, Accepting Change, Self Harm, Transgendered, Individuals with ADHD
Not necessarily. Many parents jump to conclusions without focusing on the symptoms themselves. This may be a natural thought process as parents want to help their kids as soon as possible. However, understanding what is happing first is critical to making the appropriate decision. Sensory issues may be present in many children with or without an accompanying diagnosis. With sensory processing difficulties, the amount of information around the child is difficult to absorb effectively and consistently. Ultimately, there is also a difficulty in trying to communicate the thoughts in a clear and concise manner. Building neural connectivity helps to manage and reduce these symptoms.
Learn more about our neural pathway integration program.
This disorder can be a frustrating one to truly understand, but many parents need only to focus on the symptoms associated with it and work to help their child overcome these problems. Temper tantrums, frustrations not linked to anything in particular, and poor grades are common elements to sensory problems. Daily functioning can be incredibly aggravating for kids. Their perceptions are muted sights and sounds, and it can literally feel as if a shade was pulled over the outside world. Alternatively, feelings of frequent sensory overload can also be commonplace.
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions that we receive. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
A lot of parents tend to believe that childhood disorders, like sensory processing issues, may simply be outgrown by their children if given more time. Even though it is possible that their child may learn to manage these issues over time, most research indicates that although some neural development does continue into adolescence it slows significantly after childhood. The key to effectively changing a child’s trajectory for neural and psycho-social development is early intervention.
Effectively treating sensory processing disorders must involve multiple levels of stimulation and be engaging enough from a child’s point of view so that they truly get the most out of an intervention modality. In an effort to build neural connectivity, training must utilize the visual, auditory, touch, and vestibular (balance) systems. By combining these different systems in a methodical and systematic method, children develop cross connectivity between brain hemispheres. Successful neural growth may allow the child to absorb more information from their environments and respond appropriately.
The key to effectively changing a child’s trajectory for neural and psycho-social development is early intervention. It is important to intervene in a method that encapsulates all aspects of the disorder, and to look to a modality that addresses not just one but all of the sensory systems simultaneously. However, the engagement may be difficult as most kids dislike traditional forms of therapy. Bayridge offers a program that has high interest from children as it is technologically immersive and physically fun.
This is a very common problem that many parents share. One of the best ways is to turn off all electronic and visual stimulation an hour before bedtime. Ensuring that a consistent sleep/wake schedule is followed may be crucial. These kids struggle with processing the information around them; therefore, limiting the amount of stimulus both as bedtime approaches and in the bedroom itself may prove an effective strategy. Lighting, noises, smells, bedding, and even clothing may be resulting in unwanted or excessive stimulation for your child.
There are typically three patterns of sensory processing disorder: over-responsiveness, which is responding more than normal or with too much emotion to a stimulus; under-responsiveness, which is responding less than normal or with too little emotion to a stimulus; and sensory seeking behaviours (common in ADHD and autism), which is always searching for something to grab, play with, touch, or feel.
Calming a child down that is in the middle of a tantrum or aggressive emotional state can be rather scary and can leave parents feeling incredibly frustrated and hopeless. The key to effectively managing these kinds of situations is perseverance and patience. Allow the child to breathe and recover with as much time they need. Make sure the child is safe and respond appropriately. The hardest strategy to learn is that of not reacting, but rather letting the tantrum take its natural course to completion. Finally, reflect in hindsight and try to understand why the outburst happened.
We’ve supported 35,000+ individuals. We have completed over 300,000 sessions to date. We have a countrywide network of therapists.
Catching negative thought triggers is a significant strategy that therapists at Bayridge use to train children in emotional management.
Bayridge Kids are taught to monitor their heart rate variability through increased self-awareness and learn to turn the dial down when emotionally flooding.
Bayridge Kids has worked with children to increase attention, memory, behavioural control, and focus. This always includes collaboratively working with parents and often teachers.
We believe that in working with children we also must work with the parents. After all, there is no more important influence in their lives than their parent.
Children thrive in safe, secure environments. Separation, divorce, or change can trigger anxiety, depression, or acting out behaviours. It is critical for child development that all small ‘T’ trauma is effectively processed in their brain, memory, and emotions for no lingering effects.
Kids, Control, Chocolates and Cards
Your kid is a beautiful bundle of unpredictability. There are millions, if not billions, of genetic variabilities in the composition of your child. We cannot control what we get in a child. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You don’t know what you will get.” Your child is a gift on life’s adventure. Your child and you have been dealt cards. Your job is to play the hand you have been given.
The benefits of online therapy may outweigh the face-to-face experience. One person explains: I would rather watch an entire streaming series than see only a few in high definition. In other words, the benefit of online allows me to meet regularly and consistently, at my convenience. In the end it is all about finishing well!
Since COVID forced our industry to practice online, client feedback shows online therapy can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy, and far more convenient and dependable. (exception: serious and complicated mental health issues.) Hence more and more of our clients prefer online therapy.
We can usually connect you with a therapist within 24 hours.
Our intake specialists are highly trained and sensitive and our administrator is always there to answer your questions.
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Children and Temper! It is difficult when your child reacts and gets mad. They do not know what to do with the big feelings inside them. Bayridge therapists are trained to connect and build a high trust relationship with children in order that they feel safe and understood. Therapists then strategically train children, using their brains natural neurological rerouting to manage BIG feelings!