Butterfly Beginnings Counseling

Butterfly Beginnings- Child Therapy Davenport, IA
📌Davenport, IA Child Therapists
🏡Children, Teens, and Families
❤️Regulate big feelings, find more joy
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Faith and Teen Therapy: Balancing Religion and Mental HealthNavigating the teenage years can be challenging for both tee...
12/01/2025

Faith and Teen Therapy: Balancing Religion and Mental Health

Navigating the teenage years can be challenging for both teens and their parents. As young people grow, they often face questions about their identity, purpose, and sense of belonging. For families with strong religious beliefs, faith can be a source of comfort and guidance. However, when mental health concerns arise, parents may wonder how to balance their family’s faith with the need for professional therapy.

Read more: https://www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/2025/11/17/faith-and-teen-therapy-balancing-religion-and-mental-health/

“Meltdowns and tantrums can be valuable moments for parents to strengthen their bond with their child. Approach them wit...
12/01/2025

“Meltdowns and tantrums can be valuable moments for parents to strengthen their bond with their child. Approach them with compassion, patience, and a willingness to understand."
- Dr. Ross Greene

✨ Introducing the Meltdown Manual ✨Struggling with your child’s big emotions, tantrums, and meltdowns? 😩This cheat sheet...
11/28/2025

✨ Introducing the Meltdown Manual ✨

Struggling with your child’s big emotions, tantrums, and meltdowns? 😩
This cheat sheet gives you the exact words (and actions) to soothe big feelings without yelling, bribing, or giving in.

✅ What You’ll Get:
- 16 word-for-word scripts (what to say + what to do)
- How to handle tantrums at home, school, or even in the car
- Each script explains why it works based on child development and regulation
- Printable cheat sheet to post on your fridge or screenshot on your phone

Get started today ➡️ https://www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/meltdown-manual/

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”-...
11/28/2025

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
- Bill Ayers

✨ Meet our new addition to the Butterfly Beginnings team – Jessica Pease, MS, MHP, Student Intern! ✨Jessica is currently...
11/28/2025

✨ Meet our new addition to the Butterfly Beginnings team – Jessica Pease, MS, MHP, Student Intern! ✨

Jessica is currently enrolled at Walden University in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) program, specializing in forensic counseling. She also hold a Master of Science degree in forensic psychology from Walden University. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology, with a minor in social and criminal justice, at Ashford University.

A quirky, fun, and unconventional therapist – her therapeutic philosophy is an integrated, hybrid model grounded in Psychodynamic theory and includes elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as well as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).

https://www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/meet-our-therapists/

Sound familiar? 🤔◽ Your child’s meltdowns leave you wondering, Why does this keep happening? Why don’t they get it?◽ You...
11/27/2025

Sound familiar? 🤔

◽ Your child’s meltdowns leave you wondering, Why does this keep happening? Why don’t they get it?
◽ You’ve tried “all the things”: lectures, timeouts, taking away toys, reward charts… and yet, the tantrums keep coming.
◽ You worry you’re doing it “wrong” and fear you’re damaging your relationship.

If that’s you, you’re not alone.

🌟 Introducing Tantrums to Talking 🌟

Playful strategies + brain science = calmer days and deeper connection.

🔗https://www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/tantrums2talking/

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”- Barbara Johnson
11/26/2025

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
- Barbara Johnson

Play isn’t extra—it’s essential. Let’s protect it. 💜How do you create space for play in your child’s day?
11/25/2025

Play isn’t extra—it’s essential. Let’s protect it. 💜

How do you create space for play in your child’s day?

How to Create a Safe Space for Emotional Expression at HomeAs parents, we all want our children to feel loved, understoo...
11/24/2025

How to Create a Safe Space for Emotional Expression at Home

As parents, we all want our children to feel loved, understood, and supported. One of the most powerful ways to nurture your child’s emotional well-being is by creating a safe space at home where they feel comfortable expressing their feelings. Here’s how you can foster an environment that encourages open and healthy emotional expression, with examples for every age.

Read more here: https://www.butterflybeginningscounseling.com/2025/11/10/how-to-create-a-safe-space-for-emotional-expression-at-home/

You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else.- Amanda Morgan
11/24/2025

You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else.
- Amanda Morgan

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2515 W Central Park Avenue
Davenport, IA
52804

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