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Mighty Minds Therapy is a mental health practice offering a wide range of services for those who are in need of healing following traumatic experiences, upsetting events, and life’s unpredictable ups and downs.

01/27/2026

Emotional regulation is learned through connection, not correction 🧠💛

Big emotions are not a problem to eliminate — they are signals that a child needs safety, attunement, and support. Children develop emotional regulation through relationships first. Before they can calm themselves, they borrow calm from the adults around them through consistent co-regulation.

Research in child development and neuroscience shows that repeated experiences of connection build the neural pathways responsible for emotional regulation, stress tolerance, and resilience.

These five evidence-based strategies support emotional regulation through connection:

🫁 Deep breathing & sensory grounding work best when practiced together, helping children borrow calm through shared regulation

🎯 Structured choices build collaboration, trust, and a sense of control

🤸 Movement breaks regulate the body while strengthening connection through shared activity

🤍 Calm caregiver presence provides the foundation for co-regulation during moments of overwhelm

⏰ Predictable routines create relational safety by letting children know what to expect and who will be there

Connection is the bridge between stress and regulation. When children feel seen, understood, and supported, their nervous systems can settle — and emotional growth becomes possible 🌱

At Mighty Minds Therapy, we support children, teens, and families using trauma-informed, neuroscience-based approaches that center connection, co-regulation, and nervous system health.

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01/20/2026

Now welcoming a new Colorado therapist to the Mighty Minds Therapy team — Theresa Brown, LPCC.

Theresa provides therapy for children, teens, and adults using a trauma-informed, affirming, and person-centered approach. She works with clients navigating life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, self-esteem concerns, and provides supportive care for LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent individuals.

She has supervised clinical experience in Child-Centered Play Therapy, Gestalt Play Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, CBT, and DBT, and brings a warm, developmentally attuned approach to her work with individuals and families.

🟣 Immediate availability
• Daytime sessions
• Afterschool appointments
• Weekend openings

These openings are expected to fill quickly!

If you or your child have been waiting for therapy availability that fits your schedule, Theresa offers in-person services at our Wheat Ridge office and telehealth appointments across Colorado—now is the time to book.

Schedule a consultation through our website to get started.

01/13/2026

Mindfulness for the New Year 🧠

Even 1–2 minutes of intentional mindfulness per day can strengthen emotional regulation, reduce stress reactivity, and support nervous system flexibility.

This simple, evidence-based sequence can be used in everyday moments—especially during stress:

• Pause – Take one intentional breath before reacting

• Notice – Observe sensations, emotions, and thoughts without judgment

• Regulate – Use grounding or slow breathing to shift autonomic arousal

• Respond – Choose an action from awareness rather than impulse

Mindfulness is not about clearing the mind or long meditation sessions. Small, consistent practices can meaningfully improve self-regulation, stress tolerance, and emotional resilience across the lifespan.

At Mighty Minds Therapy, we use neuroscience-informed and trauma-responsive approaches to help individuals and families build practical regulation skills.

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01/07/2026

🧠 Did you know?

Your thoughts don’t just reflect your brain — they actively shape it.

Neuroscience shows that repeated patterns of thinking strengthen specific neural pathways. When we practice balanced, compassionate, and flexible thinking, we support improved emotional regulation, reduced stress reactivity, and greater resilience over time.

This is the foundation of many evidence-based therapies, including EMDR, cognitive approaches, and trauma-informed care. Change is not just psychological — it is biological.

✨ What’s one healthy thought pattern you want to strengthen this year?

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Therapy for children, teens, and adults

12/31/2025

As we step into a new year, we pause to acknowledge what the last year has held.
Growth is rarely linear. Healing is not a resolution made at midnight. It is shaped through moments of courage, rupture and repair, insight, rest, and persistence. For many individuals and families, the past year required navigating uncertainty, stress, grief, and change—often while continuing to show up for others.

At Mighty Minds Therapy, we enter the new year grounded in what we know to be true:
The nervous system adapts in response to safety, attunement, and consistency. Change occurs through relationship. Progress is measured not only by outcomes, but by increased capacity, flexibility, and self-compassion.

As the year ahead begins, our focus remains on supporting regulation, strengthening attachment, and fostering resilience across development. Whether goals feel clear or undefined, the work of healing continues at its own pace.

We move forward with intention, curiosity, and respect for the complexity of the human experience.

Wishing you steadiness, growth, and moments of ease in the year ahead

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12/23/2025

The holidays are often framed as joyful—but for many people, they can intensify grief, stress, and emotional exhaustion. 💭💔
Here are evidence-informed, trauma-aware ways to care for yourself when the holidays hurt:

✨ Allow emotions without forcing “holiday cheer.” Emotional suppression increases stress; allowing feelings supports regulation.

✨ Adjust traditions to fit your current capacity—not past expectations. Flexibility protects mental health.

✨ Light a candle, display a photo, or share a memory 🕯️📸 Rituals support meaning-making and continuing bonds.

✨ Speak their name. Connection doesn’t end with loss—it evolves 💬❤️

✨ Build rest into busy days. Nervous systems need recovery, especially during high-demand seasons 😌🛌

Save this post for later or share it with someone who may need permission to go gently this season. Choose one practice to intentionally try this week.

12/16/2025

Holiday Parenting Overwhelm? You’re not doing it wrong.

The holiday season places increased demands on children’s nervous systems. Changes in routine, heightened sensory input, travel, and social expectations can all contribute to dysregulation, especially for children who are sensitive, neurodivergent, or have experienced trauma.

Evidence informed, nervous system friendly supports that help during the holidays:

• Connection over performance
Emotional safety comes before behavior correction. Co regulation first, problem solving later. Children encode how the holidays feel, not how perfectly they unfold.

• Build in breaks
Predictable quiet time, slower transitions, and advance preparation reduce cognitive and sensory load. Flexibility is protective.

• Maintain routines
Consistent sleep, meals, and daily rhythms support regulation. Structure signals safety to the nervous system.

• You’re not alone
Parenting during this season requires tenderness and flexibility for your child and for yourself. Struggle does not equal failure.

12/09/2025

🎄 Holiday Boundaries: Why “It’s OK to Say No” Matters for Children

Family gatherings often come with expectations about hugs, greetings, and participation. For many children, these moments activate stress responses, especially when they feel pressured to engage in ways that don’t feel comfortable. Supporting healthy boundaries is an important part of social-emotional development and long-term autonomy.

✔️ Model consent
Children learn by observing. When adults ask before initiating touch or accept a child’s no, it normalizes bodily autonomy and reduces coercive social pressure.

✔️ Validate feelings instead of pushing compliance
Acknowledging a child’s hesitation helps regulate their nervous system. Validation decreases shame and increases their capacity to make choices from a place of safety.

✔️ Offer structured choices
Providing options like a high five, a wave, a verbal hello, or simply greeting from a distance supports agency while still promoting social engagement. This aligns with trauma-informed and respectful parenting practices.

✔️ Remember children do not owe physical affection
Requiring hugs or kisses teaches children to override discomfort. Allowing them to decline reinforces trust in their internal cues and supports healthy consent development.

✔️ A felt sense of safety builds boundaries
When children feel safe to say no, their confidence, self-advocacy, and boundary formation grow stronger over time.

12/02/2025

Has your child been extra clingy, jumpy, or having nightmares after seeing something scary or going through a frightening experience? 🛡️

These reactions are common. When children encounter scary content or scary experiences, their nervous system shifts into protection mode. As a trauma-informed child therapist, I see this every week, and there are ways to help their brain settle again.

Here’s what I guide parents to do in the first hours and days:

✨ Stay close and regulated. Your calm presence signals safety to their nervous system.
🚫 Avoid replaying scary content or talking in detail about the event. Re-exposure can reinforce the threat response.
🧠 Give simple, age-appropriate facts. Clarity reduces uncertainty.
💬 Validate feelings. “That was scary. I’m here. You’re safe now.”
🎨 Use play or drawing to process. Kids integrate experiences through action and imagination, not long conversations.
📅 Re-establish predictable routines. Structure helps shift their brain out of fight or flight.

These steps work because they help restore felt safety, the foundation for emotional regulation and recovery.

If the fear isn’t fading after a few days, or if you’re noticing nightmares, avoidance, new worries, or ongoing distress, trauma-informed therapy can help. At Mighty Minds Therapy, we support children using evidence-based approaches including EMDR, play therapy, and neuroscience-informed treatment.

Your child’s healing doesn’t require perfection, it requires connection. 💜
If you’re concerned, we’re here to help.

Learn more or schedule at: www.mightymindstherapy.com

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11/18/2025

Your body remembers what your mind tries to move past.
If your reactions feel bigger than the situation, here’s why.

Do any of these feel familiar?
• Big reactions to small triggers
• Feeling on edge or shutting down
• Trouble sleeping or staying focused
• Difficulty connecting with others
• A sense of being “stuck” in stress
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These are not personality flaws or signs of being “too sensitive.” These are nervous system responses. When the body has experienced trauma or chronic stress, it stores information the mind may not consciously recall. 🧠

A dysregulated nervous system can shift into fight, flight, or freeze quickly, even without immediate danger. This can lead to emotional overwhelm, irritability, shutdowns, or exhaustion. It can make everyday tasks like staying present, focusing, or sleeping feel harder than they should.

Healing requires more than insight. It involves working with both the brain and the body to recalibrate the system, release stored stress, and restore regulation. Approaches like EMDR, somatic therapy, and polyvagal-informed work help the nervous system relearn safety. 🌿

Progress is rarely linear, but it is possible. You’re not alone. 🌱
Learn more or schedule with a trauma-informed therapist at Mighty Minds Therapy.

11/12/2025

💬 Helping kids name their feelings is one of the most powerful tools for emotional regulation.
When children identify what they feel, the brain shifts out of fight-or-flight into a calm, organized state. 🧠
This skill — called affect labeling — reduces emotional overwhelm, improves behavior, and builds lifelong coping skills. 🌱

Kids don’t act out for no reason.
They act out when their feelings are too big, too fast, or too unclear to express. 💔

Building emotional vocabulary helps children:
✨ Regulate big feelings
🗣️ Improve communication at home and school
🤝 Strengthen relationships
💡 Develop lifelong emotional literacy

At Mighty Minds Therapy in the Denver Metro / Wheat Ridge area, we provide child therapy, teen therapy, and family support using play therapy, EMDR, CBT, and neuroscience-informed approaches. 🧩
We help children who struggle with emotional regulation, anxiety, trauma, behavior challenges, and communication skills.

🔗 Learn more or schedule a session at mightymindstherapy.com

11/04/2025

Your Brain Isn’t the Enemy — It’s Sending False Alarms 🧠⚡️

Thoughts like
“I’ll never get better” or
“Everyone else has it together”
aren’t facts — they’re cognitive distortions, also known as thought traps.

CBT teaches skills to interrupt those automatic thoughts and respond with clarity instead of fear or self-criticism.

In therapy, we practice:
🔍 Evidence checking — What’s actually true?
👁️ Perspective shifting — What would I tell a friend?
📈 Pattern awareness — When have I succeeded before?
💛 Self-compassion — Would I judge anyone else this harshly?
🧩 Skill building — What’s one doable step right now?

These aren’t “positive affirmations.”
They're evidence-based tools that retrain the brain and support long-term emotional regulation, confidence, and resilience.

If you're noticing thought traps showing up more often — especially during stress, transition, or healing work — CBT can help you create space between a thought and a reaction.

Care that’s grounded in science. Tools that actually build change.

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11180 W 44th Avenue #201
Wheat Ridge, CO
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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5:45pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

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