by Brenna Hicks | Mar 14, 2008 | Blog
I recently have had an influx of adolescents in my office and I have learned some valuable lessons about how to approach them in the most effective ways. Teenagers have very distinct needs and do not really fit into either the almost-adult or still-a-child category....
by Brenna Hicks | Feb 18, 2008 | Blog
Children learn best from experience and instruction, which requires parents to set limits on behaviors. However, that does not mean children need to be told “no” hundreds of times each day. Studies show that toddlers typically hear the word...
by Brenna Hicks | Jan 30, 2008 | Blog
We live in a society that labels everything. We have labels on our clothes, our cheeseburgers, our meat and produce, and the list goes on. We like the convenience of neatly packaged words so we can sum up the person, place or thing and know what to expect. However,...
by Brenna Hicks | Dec 19, 2007 | Blog
Last year, I wrote an article with ideas and ways to keep the focus on what is important during the Christmas Season. It doesn’t even seem that a year could have passed so quickly, but here we are in December again! This year, I would like to expand on the...
by Brenna Hicks | Nov 15, 2007 | Blog
The more I learn about Play Therapy techniques and principles, the more attuned I am to recognizing when to use them in everyday situations. There are not many dinners out with my husband where I do not recognize and observe opportunities for parents to have used a...
by Brenna Hicks | Oct 22, 2007 | Blog
Socialization is a basic instinct that drives behavior. Wolves live in packs, cattle move in herds, fish swim in schools, geese travel in gaggles. 🙂 Anyway, it seems that the most developed of the animal kingdom seem to have missed the proverbial innate cues somehow....
