HeadFirst Counseling is a private counseling center offering therapy services for children, adolescents, adults, and parents in Dallas, TX. HeadFirst Counseling was founded as an alternative to stuffy, formal therapy offices where the focus is placed on the problem. At HeadFirst, the focus is on each client's strengths and innate abilities to find creative solutions to his or her current concerns.
We provide a holistic approach to therapy looking at the whole person to enable children, teens, and parents to develop insight, empathy, and problem solving skills. We use the latest brain-based techniques and interventions rooted in helping our clients form secure attachments and increase brain integration for optimal functioning.
We provide a holistic approach to therapy looking at the whole person to enable children, teens, and parents to develop insight, empathy, and problem solving skills. We use the latest brain-based techniques and interventions rooted in helping our clients form secure attachments and increase brain integration for optimal functioning.
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For children, play is a significant part of the therapeutic process and is the natural way that children express and learn about themselves. In play therapy, children are provided a specific set of materials and toys that allows them to express a wide range of emotions, feelings, and needs.
Play therapy encourages children to communicate with others, identify and express feelings, modify behavior, develop problem-solving skills, and discover ways of relating to others.At HeadFirst Counseling, we look at each individual child as a unique being with his or her own special set of skills and strengths.
Play therapy encourages children to communicate with others, identify and express feelings, modify behavior, develop problem-solving skills, and discover ways of relating to others.At HeadFirst Counseling, we look at each individual child as a unique being with his or her own special set of skills and strengths.
Teenagers are in the "in-between" phase of life- no longer children but not quite full blown adults either. We believe that means they also need their own approach to therapy. We take the best of both worlds and use non-directive activity therapy blended with traditional talk therapy with preteens and teenagers ages 10-17.
As we are all collectively learning a major lesson in flexibility and adaptability, our office is now offering teletherapy services to clients that qualify. Teletherapy is a way in which therapists are able to provide therapy services to clients during a critical time, through the safety and convenience of being at home or in isolation.
HeadFirst offers individual counseling services for adults going through a wide variety of problems, concerns, stress, and family changes. Our therapists offer a safe, non-judgmental space for you to explore new ideas and ways of being. We get it that sometimes it's difficult to focus on yourself when you have a lot of other responsibilities- paying rent, work, family, marriage, kids.
Children are constantly sending us signals, and sometimes those signals are difficult to read. Are they hungry? Tired? Angry? And just as soon as you learn to recognize a signal from one child, your other child will be completely different! That's the one sure thing about parenting-every child is different and has different ways of interacting with the environment.
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Akela Asante
Sep 28, 2017
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We just left counseling and had the pleasure of meeting with Laura. We could not have imagined it going any better. We've been afraid of having a conversation with our 5 year old for a very long time now. Getting to meet with Laura took away all of our fears and prepared us for the conversation that we now need to have. I would strongly recommend head first counseling.
Clark McLaughlin
Jan 18, 2017
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