Coastal Coping LLC

03/07/2026

Continuing our Who, What, When, Where, Why & How series…this week let’s talk about Medical Play!!

03/04/2026

03/04/2026

This Child Life Month, check out our Who, What, When, Where, Why and How series! We will take a dive into different aspects of the services child life specialists provide for children, families and medical teams. There are many misconceptions about preparation, “won’t it scare my child?”, “aren’t they too young to understand?”, “I don’t know how to tell them.” These are things we all hear as child life specialists! So let’s take a deeper look at Procedure Preparation! 💉🩺🩻

03/03/2026

March is Child Life Month!!! Coastal Coping is proud to be celebrating 5 years of providing community based child life services this year!! We are so grateful to have the opportunity to walk alongside children and families through some of life’s biggest challenges and to foster resilience through preparation, play, empowerment and support interventions. HAPPY CHILD LIFE MONTH!

04/15/2025

Check out our CCLS April in Barbie form! Accessories include play-doh, medical play supplies, art supplies, teen grief journal and a pet therapy dog (modeled after her own puppy Gambit)

07/23/2024

Today I had the opportunity to be a vendor at the Northfield Farmers Market for the second time this summer. What an amazing opportunity to be out in the community and to educate others about what we do and facilitate activities that focus on expressing emotions!

03/01/2024

Ready to kick off with some

02/24/2024

That’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who participated in the Power of Play Three Part Series Workshop and for The Children’s Room for partnering with Coastal Coping!

01/18/2024

“Clean up clean up everybody everywhere! Clean up clean up everybody do your share!” So much fun doing medical play with playmobile figures!

01/16/2024

ATTENTION CENTRAL VT FAMILIES:
Are you interested in how to use play as a tool to help your child with transition? Would you like to learn more about the value of play and how you can engage more with your child during their play? Want to learn how play contributes to your child's development and overall mental health? If so, please register for this three part family/caregiver discussion series by Jacqueline Goodall, LICSW and Kellie Maas, MS, CCLS on the benefits of emotional regulation and play. The first two sessions will be hybrid, held at The Children's Room as well as zoom for families to learn more about the benefits of play. For the third session, parents/caregivers are encouraged to bring their children to engage in an in-person fun activity that will put all the skills learned together! FREE.
Session #1: Thursday, February 8th, 7:00 to 8:00 pm, zoom or in person at The Children’s Room
Session #2: Thursday, February 15th, 7:00 to 8:00 pm, zoom or in person at The Children’s Room
Session #3: Saturday, February 24th, 10:30 am-11:30 am, in person play session together at The Children’s Room, children encouraged to attend

01/12/2024

People may be familiar with this book at the elementary school level with interventions led by a school counselor as a social/emotional lesson on empathy and kindness. We adapted this concept to help a toddler navigate big feelings related to sharing and stop physical behaviors like hitting or pushing. In this incentive based intervention, the child decorated a “bucket” and every time the child displays acts of kindness and is a “bucket filler” they get to put marbles in the cup. If they display “bucket dipper” tendencies or unkind behaviors, marbles are taken away. Once the bucket is filled up, the child gets special praise and a dance party. Have you filled up your bucket today?

11/10/2023

❄️Play Is Powerful❄️

Pictured: A three year old processing the recent death of a family member through play with food coloring, snow and figurines. She was playing that “Elsa” and “Piggy” died and were being buried which is something she witnessed while at the cemetery. Her play then switched to her having a birthday party for all of her friends.

Her play displayed that she does not view death as distressing but instead just another experience for her to process and play through.

While at her age she still cannot understand the finality of death, by involving her in the grieving process with her family in a developmentally appropriate and supportive way, she is able to understand that death is something that happens and she has a point of reference for it.

Coastal Coping is here to help families navigate those difficult moments to help children cope after a loss.