Center For Healing Childhood Trauma

"Behavior is communication" but how do we best communicate and understand a language we never learned to speak? I spent many a night and day trying to find the right therapy, specialist, diagnosis and/or label for the things that I was seeing in my children. I ended up staring into an abyss of letters and diagnosis. Was it ADHD? Was it DT? Was it RAD, FASD, ODD, fetal exposure to drugs? Was it bi-polar, ASD, CD or something we were missing? With every new psychiatrist or provider we saw we were given a new diagnosis or plausible answer; the list of possibilities grew and it felt like my understanding decreased. My children each carried an alphabet soup of letters that were not helping me to better communicate.The letters never made sense. Kids who fit into the category of alphabet soup are worth figuring out and fighting for. This class will look at understanding in-utero drug exposure and neuro-behavioral symptoms while helping us parent differently, not harder.