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Breathing Through Counseling & Wellness Services strives to assist children from infancy to adolescence in healing, using various therapy modalities including play therapy and other trauma informed care.

03/25/2026

Warheads aren’t just candy…they’re a quick nervous system reset 🍬⚡️

That intense sour taste activates your sensory system FAST—pulling your brain out of overwhelm and back into the present moment. It’s a form of oral + sensory input that can interrupt anxiety, spiraling thoughts, or big emotions.

Think of it like a “pattern interrupt”:
➡️ Brain is overwhelmed
➡️ Sour hits
➡️ Attention shifts instantly
➡️ Body recalibrates

I love these because they’re:
✔️ Portable (keep in your car, purse, classroom, or therapy room)
✔️ Fast-acting
✔️ Kid & teen friendly

This is especially helpful for moments like:
• Anxiety spikes
• Transitions
• Waiting in lines
• Big feelings that feel “too much”

Regulation doesn’t always look like calm…sometimes it looks like supporting the nervous system in real time 💛

03/23/2026

Disney days = BIG feelings for tiny humans ✨🏰

Between the crowds, excitement, waiting, and sensory overload… even the happiest place can feel overwhelming for little bodies 💛

So with my nieces, we paused. We grounded. We regulated—right there in real life.

We turned the classic 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique into something playful:
👀 “I spy with my little eye…”
✋ “Can you find 4 things you can touch?”
👂 “What are 3 things you can hear?”
👃 “2 things you can smell?”
👅 “1 thing you can taste?”

Simple. Playful. Regulating.

For my 2 & 4 year old nieces, it wasn’t about doing it perfectly—it was about slowing their bodies down, reconnecting to the present, and feeling safe again 🤍

Regulation doesn’t have to happen in a therapy room…
It happens in the middle of Disney, meltdowns, magic, and all.

✨ Tools over perfection
✨ Connection over correction
✨ Regulation in real life

When a child reaches for color, they’re not just painting… they’re regulating. 🌈Creativity gives children a safe way to ...
03/21/2026

When a child reaches for color, they’re not just painting… they’re regulating. 🌈

Creativity gives children a safe way to express what they don’t yet have words for.
Mixing colors, making rainbows, choosing what feels “right” in their body—this is emotional processing in real time.

There’s no right way to paint.
Just space, freedom, and connection.

And in that space… regulation naturally follows. 💛

03/21/2026

Cold can be a powerful, simple tool to support regulation—especially during a panic attack. The intense cold activates the body’s dive reflex, helping to slow heart rate, bring awareness back into the body, and interrupt the spiral of anxious thoughts. Whether it’s holding an ice cube, splashing cold water on your face, or using a cold pack on your cheeks or chest, this sensory input can gently guide the nervous system back toward calm. It’s not about stopping the feeling—it’s about supporting your body through it.

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03/18/2026

Helping kids regulate isn’t about stopping feelings… it’s about understanding them 🤍

When children can name what they’re feeling, identify where it shows up, and sit with it, they begin to move through it instead of getting stuck in it. That’s regulation.

Most kids know the big ones—happy, mad, sad—but often struggle with the in-between feelings like frustrated, disappointed, nervous, or overwhelmed. Expanding their emotional vocabulary gives them more tools to express themselves instead of acting it out.

In the playroom, I love using A Whole Bunch of Feelings to support this process. It helps children explore, label, and make sense of their internal world in a way that feels safe, playful, and accessible.

Because when kids have the words… they have the power to regulate 💛

03/17/2026

Crunchy snacks aren’t just a preference… they’re regulation. ✨

That crunch, chew, and resistance gives the nervous system proprioceptive input—helping the body organize, focus, and calm. For many kids (and adults), it’s a quick, accessible way to reset when things feel overwhelming.

This is why you’ll often see crunchy snacks in my playroom—because regulation doesn’t always look like sitting still… sometimes it sounds like crunch crunch crunch. 💛

03/14/2026

Body Sensations & Regulation

Kids often don’t yet understand what body sensations are. They might notice a fast heartbeat, butterflies in their stomach, tight muscles, or a wiggly body — but they don’t always know what those signals mean.

📖 Listening to My Body by Gabi Garcia helps teach children to notice and understand body sensations first, which is an important step toward learning regulation. The book offers simple explanations and kid-friendly exercises that help kids connect what their body feels to what they might need.

When kids learn to listen to their bodies, they begin building the foundation for emotional awareness and regulation.

Self-regulation isn’t about children being calm all the time.It’s about learning how to notice what’s happening in their...
03/13/2026

Self-regulation isn’t about children being calm all the time.

It’s about learning how to notice what’s happening in their bodies, understand their feelings, pause, and choose what to do next.

This skill develops over time through connection, co-regulation, and practice.

When children feel supported in their big emotions, their nervous systems learn that they are safe, understood, and capable of working through hard moments.

✨ Regulation grows in relationship.

What helps your child regulate when big feelings show up?

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The Beginning

Breathing Through Counseling & Wellness Services was created out of a desire to work individually with both children and adolescents, in an attempt to assist them in overcoming the adverse effects of trauma. Throughout my career, working with children in various capacities, I have seen the effects that unresolved trauma can have the individual, their families. and communities. These effects can be minimized when trauma survivors receive treatment tailored to meet their specific needs. Breathing Through Counseling & Wellness Services strives to be a safe place, where the therapist and client work together to create a specialized treatment plan based on the individual’s needs. It is my hope is that this will not just be the start of a business but the beginning of much healing.