Medical Support
Child Life Specialist Services
Many times parents receive the well-intentioned, but incorrect advice to protect their kids at all costs. Often this involves withholding information from children, covering situations with “white lies,” and making promises that aren’t within your power to keep. Even when parents keep information from their children, children always know something is wrong and usually what they imagine is scarier than the actual truth. We want you to know that not only is knowledge their right, it is one of their greatest needs.
Your children are affected by everything that happens in the family.
The more serious the situation, the more they will be impacted.
Lying to your children, in any way, will make things worse.
Our child life specialists are here to ease the emotional burden you carry for the children in your life. We give your children and safe space to receive factual and age-appropriate information and support that establishes healthy coping skills and resiliency. We help parents and caregivers know what to say, how to say it, and when to share.
We offer both individual (50 min.) and family (75 min.) sessions. Most kids and teens require between 6 to 8 sessions; however, this is dependent upon the unique needs of each individual and their circumstances. Some common factors determining whether individual or family sessions are needed are:
the age(s) of your child(ren)
the number of children
the diagnosis, injury, or medical event
Child life specialists have a wide skill-set and focus on children and teens impacted by illness, injury, and loss. Using psycho-education, therapeutic play and psychosocial support, Certified Child Life Specialists make the complex simple, and have extraordinary abilities to help persons of all ages explore, understand, and process illness, treatment, loss, and grief.
The work of a child life specialist is preventative. Our Certified Child Life Specialists are the only Registered Wonders & Worries Providers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. We have decades of experience helping families experiencing serious illness and acute trauma, as well as loss and grief. Child life specialists support individual children and teens, sibling sets, or groups of kids experiencing similar circumstances. Reach out through the button below to speak with us directly about what may be best for you or your loved ones.
“[Child life specialists] are looking at the rest of your children’s lives. If they are deceived, lied to, “protected” from the truth, they will learn a life-long lesson of distrust.”
Certified Child Life Specialists work with children, adolescents, parents, and families to increase coping and resiliency while decreasing stress and anxiety. We are specifically trained in child development, family systems theory, attachment, and stress and coping, and complete a 600+ hour clinical internship in a pediatric hospital, under the direct supervision of a Certified Child Life Specialist. All Certified Child Life Specialists are certified by exam through the Association of Child Life Professionals.
Certified Child Life Specialists work with children, adolescents, parents, and families to increase coping and resiliency while decreasing stress and anxiety. We support kids, teens, and families understand, navigate, and cope with serious life events. We address misunderstandings, promote emotional wellness, and strengthen family relationships and communication.
We are specifically trained in child development, family systems theory, attachment, and stress and coping, and complete a 600+ hour clinical internship in a pediatric hospital, under the direct supervision of a Certified Child Life Specialist.
All Certified Child Life Specialists are certified by exam through the Association of Child Life Professionals.
