Services
Our program recognizes that successful visits are more than just encounters; they are opportunities to rebuild trust and connection. Although research correlates visits with faster reunification, families often need support to understand and meet their child’s unique needs. Drug and alcohol programs, domestic violence counseling, and parenting classes may focus on adult treatment but not always on the parent-child bond and underlying emotional dynamics of the family. Parents are given the chance to demonstrate the positive changes they’ve made through court-ordered classes, indicating their readiness for reunification or providing insights into their progress.
Our program helps parents learn more about what their child needs, clarify what they could do differently to meet those needs, and work on developing an environment for their child that feels safe and predictable. We believe that a responsive and attuned caregiver is essential for healthy emotional-brain development, and our therapeutic supervised visitation services help parents develop lifelong habits of identifying and adjusting parenting skills to meet their child’s needs.
Our powerful model emphasizes nurturing the delicate bond between parent and child through a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach as it:
- Assists parents in articulating their children’s unmet needs
- Provides a framework for parents to make the best use of their limited time with their child
- Helps parents cope with their feelings, enabling consistent visits free of disruptive emotions
- Establishes parenting practices that focus on the child’s underlying emotional dynamics rather than behavior
- Develops effective strategies to respond to maladaptive behaviors that do not undermine the parent-child relationship
- Assists parents in identifying and meeting the unique needs of their children, creating the right conditions for children to grow into their most authentic selves
- Creates an environment of physical, social, and psychological felt-safety
- Supports parents in attuning to their child’s feelings and accurately communicating them back to their child, preventing tantrums, reducing anxiety, and building emotional resilience
- Provides education and guidance on the purpose and function survival-based behavior as well as how to support their children in getting their needs met in more attractive ways
- Assists parents in mastering the use of proactive strategies for behavioral change
- Documents parents’ behavior change to assist In the determination of reunification