Encompass Mental Health

You aren't a bad parent. In fact, it seems like you've put more work into helping your child to overcome life's challenges than the average parent. You stayed awake at night, agonizing over the best decisions for your child, often times over-thinking what the best way was to handle these behaviors, and yet these behaviors have continued to get worse and worse.

The process of separation or divorce is difficult-filled with intense emotions and perhaps heightened conflict due to hurt feelings from the past relationship. You both want what's best for your child, but if you're like most separated couples, you may not agree on what that is.

Perhaps there have been more tantrums, higher displays of emotions, controlling behaviors or even some disruption in some milestones such as sleeping through the night, potty training, listening, eating or school achievement.You're looking for help because you want to make sure that your decision to separate as a couple does not have a negative lasting impact on your child's development, behavior and life in general.

It can be normal for an individual to have fears, nervousness, or worries throughout life. But if you notice that your child experiences fears, nervousness, worry, or anxiety that seems to be excessive and/or interfering with other aspects of their life including school, home, friendships and leisure times, you may want to reach out to a mental health professional to learn more about anxiety and how it could be impacting your child or teen.

Autism Spectrum Disorder, also commonly known as ASD, is a neurodevelopmental condition that involves a combination of symptoms of deficits in social communication and social interaction as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities that shows up in many environments or contexts (home, childcare, school, social relationships, etc.).

It is normal for an individual to have emotional ups and downs throughout the day. But, if you notice your child or teen having mostly down days filled with irritability, sadness, and/or loss of interest in things they once enjoyed, you may want to reach out to a mental health professional to see if your child is experiencing depression.