Managing Big Emotions is a group designed for 7 and 8-year-olds to gain awareness about how our emotions impact us and how to deal with big emotions. At this age, children are beginning to experience a wide range of emotions while also learning how to express and articulate their emotions to others. This group will help provide the language to share their feelings and learn healthy coping strategies.

Does your teen/tween struggle with making and keeping friends? Socializing during adolescence can be challenging for many reasons: social anxiety, loneliness, cliques, jealousy, gossip, social media, bullying, and peer pressure can all play a part. While friendships can sometimes be difficult to navigate, students with strong, healthy, long-term friendships will be better equipped to handle the other challenges associated with adolescence. The friendship bootcamp will cover many social skills topics appropriate for female, male, and non-binary adolescents. The group will incorporate games, art projects, and other activities to help your child learn and practice a range of skills: listening and reciprocal conversation skills, perspective-taking and showing empathy, self-advocacy, conflict resolution, identifying feelings, managing strong emotions, and more.

Finding Friendship is a social skills group designed to help children develop and enhance their social abilities in a supportive and structured environment. Many young children were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced their chances to integrate with peers and develop social skills. The primary goal of this group for 5 and 6-year-olds is to foster positive social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation. This group will focus on building foundational social skills to contribute to overall social and emotional development.

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Does your teen/tween struggle with making and keeping friends? Socializing in middle school can be challenging for many reasons: social anxiety, loneliness, cliques, jealousy, gossip, social media, bullying, and peer pressure can all play a part. While friendships can sometimes be difficult to navigate, middle school students who have strong, healthy, long-term friendships will be better equipped to handle the other challenges associated with middle school.

The 12-session friendship group will cover many social skills topics appropriate for female, male and non-binary middle school students. The group will incorporate games, art projects and other activities to help your middle schooler learn and practice a range of skills: listening and reciprocal conversation skills, perspective-taking and showing empathy, self-advocacy, conflict resolution, identifying feelings, managing strong emotions, and more.

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PEERS® for Adolescents is a 14-week evidence-based social skills intervention for motivated teens in middle and high school who are interested in learning new ways of making and keeping friends. This internationally acclaimed program, used in over 35 countries, was originally developed at UCLA by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson. During each group session, teens are taught important social skills and are given the opportunity to practice these skills in session during socialization activities. Parents attend separate sessions and are taught how to assist their teens in making and keeping friends by helping to expand their teen’s social network and providing feedback through coaching during weekly socialization homework assignments. PEERS® may be appropriate for teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, or other social and behavioral disorders. Parent participation is required.

Does your teen/tween struggle with making and keeping friends? Socializing in middle school can be challenging for many reasons: social anxiety, loneliness, cliques, jealousy, gossip, social media, bullying, and peer pressure can all play a part. While friendships can sometimes be difficult to navigate, middle school students who have strong, healthy, long-term friendships will be better equipped to handle the other challenges associated with middle school. For female, male and non-binary middle school students. The group will incorporate games, art projects and other activities to help your middle schooler…Check out “Gained skills and more about the group” below for more information on this group.

Could your child use some help with managing big feelings and impulses? Are these difficulties interfering with their functioning at school, at home, or with friends? In this group, your child can connect to peers who have similar struggles in a fun environment where they will develop skills in these areas and build new friendships.

Is your child struggling with the basic foundational skills of making friends? Play and art-based social skills group will focus on providing them with instruction on the building blocks of friendship. In this group, children will be able to learn about and practice the communication, engagement, regulation, and interpersonal skills that are needed to form meaningful relationships with peers. This group is farm themed, so each session, your child will be introduced to an animal that teaches them about a new helpful skill.