What is Infant Mental Health and why does an infant need therapy?

Infant mental health  focuses on the relationship and connection between the infant and all caregivers. Geared for children from birth to age 5, Infant Mental Health provides parents with a combination of education on their child’s unique needs and helps parents process their own anxieties and traumas (sometimes from their own childhood,) which they bring to their relationship with their child.  Infant Mental Health starts with the premise that healthy parents are needed to provide a safe space for healthy children to grow. Young children are so interconnected to their parents that the emotional well being of the parents directly effects the well being of the child.  They are a unit.  Infant Mental Health works with parents (both mom and dad) on the following topics:

• Post-partum depression and anxiety
• Learning to become a family
• Defining roles for parents
• Learning that each parent will have a different relationship with each child
• Sibling issues, especially when siblings are close in age
• Blended families, bringing in an infant or young child in a family with step-siblings 
• Processing childhood traumas
• Those the parent’s experienced as a child and how that affects their relationship with their child
• Trauma’s the child experienced and how the parents are part of the healing process
• Coping with Parent illness
• Coping with Child illness
• Grief

Please contact me with any questions. I look forward to hearing from you.
Julie Taylor | 407.739.7260 |  Julie@wintergardenkids.com