Overcoming School Worries with Julie

Description

How to Talk to Your Anxious Child and Wipe Those Worries Off Their Worry List!

Is your child experiencing anxiety that is affecting their daily life? Is your child refusing to go to school or everyday is a fight to get there? Perhaps your teen has graduated and transiting to finding a job or going to college has caused them to shut down! Going to bed at strange hours and sleeping all day. Could you use some everyday techniques to help your child cope with life’s challenges?

This course is designed as a program including three powerful counselling techniques to help your child overcome anxiety. The course includes:

·        Introduction: What is Anxiety and what is happening to my child?

·        Relaxation techniques to help your child take control of their anxiety – Learn Neuro Linguistic Techniques such as reframing, a technique to teach your child to take control of their thoughts, feelings, and emotions rather than feel that these emotions just happen to them. Learn an anchoring technique where touch is used to create a feeling of safety and comfort. Lastly, learn how breathing can help to calm your child down and take control of their anxiety through techniques like square breathing.

·        Systematic Desensitization – What is it and how to use it. Learn how to break things down into doable and manageable steps so your child can feel confident that they can have success and tackle any situation that comes up.

·        Cognitive Behavioral Technique – Learn techniques on how to answer your child’s anxious worries with a proven counselling technique that helps your child challenge their anxiety and problem solve solutions so they don’t need to worry anymore.

·        As a bonus, learn how to listen to your child through active and reflective listening skills as well as empathic statements acknowledging their worry and come up with a solution together teaching your child how to problem solve and develop cognitive thinking skills for life.

Learn how to break things down and systematically help your child to recognize their anxiety and learn to be resilient.

Teach your children how to learn how to change their way of thinking through problem solving, empower themselves, expand their emotional intelligence and end endless worry.

Offering 1F24: Monday, Oct 21 2024, 6:30pm to 9:30pm, FVCE Classroom #204, 20621 Logan Ave Langley

Offering 2F24: Saturday, Jan 11 2025, 9:30am to 12:30pm, FVCE Classroom #204, 20621 Logan Ave Langley

Instructor: Elizabeth Bains