Unstructured Play Time and Healthy Brain Development Using play to help your child reach optimal development. Children are born with an...

Learn to recognize signs of anxiety in your child. Does your child complain of frequent headaches or stomach aches? If a visit to the...

Informed Parenting Understanding the Importance of Development Throughout Childhood Child development is complicated and messy. Children...

Setting an Intention to Connect with Your Child Make 2017 the year that you bring playfulness back to parenting and reconnect with your...

Why This Christmas Gift Hack Made My Heart Break When it comes to getting children to behave, threatening them or using external rewards...

Love and Acceptance- Our Guiding Forces in Parenting At HeadFirst Counseling, we help parents adapt an approach to parenting their...

Increase your child's sense of imagination and creativity with expressive arts activities. Children are born to explore their world. They...

How to cope with family conflict this holiday season. Sometimes too much family time can be a bad thing. Some families delight in the...

New Baby and Toddlers- How to Keep Your Sanity We’ve heard the story before. Parents give birth to an amazing boy or girl that is their...

Efforts to Decrease Bullying in Dallas, TX www.stompoutbullying.org It is a known fact that bullying is widespread. It is in our schools,...

Help Your Teen Reach His or Her Potential By the time the end of summer rolls around, most parents are ready for back to school. Back to...

More Recess Time Leads to Better Focus and Academic Performance at School As a play therapist, I am constantly talking to parents and...

Back to School Special! Have you been wondering what play therapy is, and if it's appropriate for your child? Now is the time to try it...

Parenting and Adoption Resources in Dallas, TX- HeadFirst Counseling There has been a lot of talk during the Rio Olympics regarding...

Delayed Responses to Community Trauma The brain is a very powerful thing. It protects us from things we cannot handle. When a tragedy or...

New Therapy Groups at HeadFirst Counseling! We are pleased to announce that HeadFirst Counseling is now offering group therapy for select...

Teen Therapy- HeadFirst Counseling in Dallas, TX Understanding Planet Teenager Your teenager says they want more independence. You grant...

Codependent. It seems the word codependent is thrown around quite a bit these days- but what does it actually mean? How do I know if I am...

Relinquishing the Term Police Brutality: Healing After the Dallas Shooting On the evening of Thursday July 7th, 2016 during a peaceful...

Picture from www.iamthatgirl.com- You Are More Than Your Mental Illness How HeadFirst Counseling is Working to End the Stigma We know...