Do you feel disconnected or distant from your child? Are you, or your child, distressed and having trouble thriving? Is your child often sick, injured, anxious, or afraid?
Somanautiko’s Resilient Families process helps caregivers and children connect more successfully with each other when there has been a disruption to these primary relationships. This approach is for families who are having trouble becoming or staying pregnant, or families who have had a challenging pregnancy, birth experience, or other issues that reveal themselves during the early parenting years.
Somanautiko's Resilient Families process addresses common challenges, including:
- depression or anxiety in pregnancy or postpartum
- IVF conception journeys
- premature birth
- difficult birth experience
- NICU or early hospitalizations
- adoption
- gender and identity transitions
- illness of either parent and/or child
- death within the close family circle
- separation or divorce
- any other significant events that impact a parent, infant, or child
Children who were stressed during birth, or separated from their primary caregiver following birth, grieve and show signs of distress. They need to be given support to be with their sorrows.
Distress in children can look like: difficulty establishing ease with feeding (at breast or with a bottle), sleep disruptions, digestive issues, tentative movements or a lack of body control, tension, acting out, shutting down, spacing out, raging, frequent anxiety, depression, delays in development and learning, and frequent illness or injury.
Just as with my sessions with big people, my sessions with little people take on many different shapes. Sometimes a session looks like an adult bodywork session on a treatment table, but more likely the child will choose to have the session while playing on the floor or in a caregiver’s lap. It all depends on what your child is ready for in any given session.
Somanautiko’s Resilient Families process responds to changing developmental needs:
- Prenatal Health and Family Preparation
- IVF and Adoption Support
- Welcoming Newborns – The Fourth Trimester
- Infants and Toddlers in years 1-5
- Children in years 6-10
- Pre-Teens and Teenagers
I work with the whole child and the whole family.
This does not mean that an entire family will need to be physically present in the room for every session, but it does mean that all members of the family are included in my awareness when I work with any member of your family. It is my experience that everyone in a family system benefits when someone, particularly children and primary caregivers, receive care. In my experience, it is often what the littlest, or loudest, member expresses that brings attention to issues that are affecting the whole family. I regularly thank little ones for bringing their parents to meet me.
There does not need to be anything “wrong” for someone to receive care. The Somanautiko approach is ideally suited for proactive families who want to support the innate strengths and enhance the inherent health and resiliency of any member, or the family as a whole, as you navigate the ever-changing landscapes of life.
I translate for a body when it speaks louder than words.
Everyone wants to be listened to. I will listen to your little one’s strengths, perspectives, and unique expressions of their experience. I will honor their hurts and sorrows. I will champion their innate ability to recover, celebrate, and do magic. I want to help them claim a sense of safety, belonging, curiosity, connection, and joy that comes from living in a body without fear of not being seen or soothed.
I offer holistic healthcare education so everyone can enjoy being in their bodies. I will help translate for you the ways in which your child may feel safe to communicate through me, most often without words. I will help you become more confident in your own translation and caregiving skills so that the work that we start in our sessions integrates into daily life and play, building the tools everyone needs to become healthier people and more resilient as a family.
Contact me to help your family become more resilient.