Children's Counseling
Our Hope Kids Care counselors help children living with serious illness learn to cope with many complex emotions. Also, we can provide support for their siblings too!
These one-on-one sessions take place at home, school, or at Hope. In a relaxed, often play-filled setting, children are encouraged to share their feelings.
Our counselors:
- Build on a child’s normal learning and communication style
- Provide a safe psychological distance from their problems
- Allow age-appropriate expression of thoughts and feelings
Grief Counseling for Children
Grief counseling can help children find healthy ways to cope with their grief while they are processing their loss. During this time of emotional turmoil and stress, the counselors at Hope Kids Care are here to support your family.
How is a child’s grief different?
- Younger children don’t always fully understand death or comprehend that it’s truly final.
- Older children may struggle to express how they feel.
- Children have a limited capacity to deal with pain and may grieve in short bursts. They may feel it, then go off and play, only to come back to those difficult feelings later.
- Children may hide their feelings of loss to “fit in.”