Intensive Treatment Adoptive Families

Adopted children from hard backgrounds can create stress and frustration.

You and your family are not alone. Many families who’ve adopted children from hard backgrounds feel like they are on an island.

Though other people are caring and might try to understand, they have a hard time comprehending what it’s like to love and sacrifice completely for a child, just to have that child reject the love.

Earlier background influences current behavior.

Children who come from hard places, which include rejection from birth parents, abuse, and neglect, experience an inner chaos that manifests outwardly.

Behaviors like lying, stealing, breaking things, hurting people or animals, and sexually acting out are common in children from hard backgrounds.

Emotions like anger, even rage, anxiety, and self-loathing are also common.

The concept of love is foreign to these children.

They are terrified to be loved, because of the wounds they’ve suffered from people who should have loved them before.

This affects that child’s brain, heart, and gut, as well as their ability to interact with a loving family.

There is hope for your adopted child and your family.

If your family is experiencing any, and in some cases, all the above listed behavioral traits, please know you are not alone. We understand. We get it. And we are here to help you.

We know many of you have the battle wounds from being kicked, bitten, spit on, and told you’re hated. Though our wounds don’t compare, we too have a few battle scratches.

It’s not going to bother us if you bring your naughty child. We’ve seen it all including the lying, screaming, growling, kicking pens out of our hands, and kicking holes in our walls.

We won’t believe their lies, because we understand why they lie and are afraid.

And we will help them and you to heal.

How does the process of healing begin?

We start off by doing QEEG brain mapping to understand the trauma your child has experienced and how it has affected their brain.

Then, we do neurofeedback to help their brain form healthier patterns that help them to form healthier attachment.

Physiological health is part of the healing process.

We also work with both their heart and gut, because they have been affected by trauma, too.

Why the gut? Because 95% of our serotonin is produced in the gut, and a lack of serotonin can cause negative thoughts and irritability.

Why the heart? Because the heart is our regulator of emotion and physiological health. When we experience significant stress and trauma, our heart keeps us in fight or flight survival mode. As the heart calms, it improves our ability to connect, live, and think in healthy ways.

Family therapy is a daily process.

Methods of family therapy will be employed daily and include teaching your child to understand their behaviors, their fears, and the way to heal and feel love.

The family therapy sessions also will delve into how a child is pushing their parents’ love away, is keeping secrets, and is inappropriately putting their anger on the family that loves them.

It is time to eliminate the stress and frustration.

We can work with you and your adopted child and help remove some of the barriers to developing a loving relationship.

Therapy and time provide the formula for a heathier child and more cohesive family.