XP: Taking DD1 to a therapist

expectingnothing

(XP from Single Parenting, but this is my 'home board' and thought some of you might have input too)

 

I am meeting with my former therapist tomorrow to bring her up to date on what has happened since I saw her last.  (Last I left her I was happily moving away with H for his new job and things were looking up.)  After this appointment, I am going to bring my older daughter along with me and she is going to work with both of us.  The older one has been acting out a bit, I'm not sure what is just normal for her age or what is due to the upheaval in her life but she told my mom the other day that she had to cry and yell because there was 'sad in her tummy that needed to come out'.  Anyway, I was just wondering what to expect from the appointment with my daughter and if you went and how it helped your child.

JOEBunny

My DD has not had any upheavals and she says similar things.  She has been doing this for a while, so I think it is mostly age related.  Hope things are looking up for you. 

AngelNDavid

We took my DD1 a couple months ago because she was having major sleep issues that came out of no where.  We had alot of changes over the course of the year so we wanted to make sure her sleep wasn't changing because of that.  It turns out it was just a normal phase.  Within a couple of meetings her sleep went back to normal and everything has been fine.  A waste of copays for us, but it was nice to hear we were doing the right things in trying to get her back to sleeping well.

The meeting pretty much consisted of the therapist talking with me for about 30 minutes and the last 15/30 minutes they talked thru play.  Play therapy is important when talking with kids.  Sometimes I stayed in the room and sometimes I left depending on how I felt she would do without me there.

 Good luck!   

r9stedt

Good luck!