EPISODE
Episode 13
TITLE
Parent Your Highly Sensitive Child Like a Ninja
GUEST
Megghan Thompson, LCPC
EPISODE OVERVIEW
Parenting a Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) can be challenging—especially if your child has meltdowns. Megghan talks about the Shame Meltdown Cycle; What works to raise an HSC; how to avoid sending the message to your child that that they are wrong; how to communicate with your HSC to strengthen your relationship, and effective ways to communicate with your child to build a solid relationship and mirror your child’s strengths. We talk about the challenges that external validation (reward/sticker programs) pose as well as ways to avoid communicating in a way that increases shame and perfectionism.
highlights
BIO
Megghan Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor and Parent Coach who has specialized in working with Highly Sensitive Children and their parents for a decade. She helps parents eliminate daily meltdowns in as little as 8 weeks without giving in or doing a complete overhaul of their household, and strengthen the relationship with their child in the process. Growing up with a Highly Sensitive sister, she also has firsthand experience of the struggles families face when they don't understand the needs of Highly Sensitive Children.
She has extensive training and experience working with sensitive teens who engage in self-harmful and life-threatening behaviors, and has made it her mission to build an army of ninja parents of Highly Sensitive Children to prevent this from happening for other sensitive kids and their families.
She owns a group practice in Mount Airy, Maryland that specializes in treating Highly Sensitive Children, teens, and their families.
You can find her on Facebook through her group: Parent Your Highly Sensitive Child Like a Ninja, and a link to her free training for parents of HSCs will be in the show notes.
LINKS
Parent Your Highly Sensitive Child Like a Ninja Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/yTre1h
Free Parent Training: https://www.megghanthompsoncoaching.com/p/5steps
Schedule a Free Consultation: https://www.megghanthompsoncoaching.com/p/talk
Dr. Elaine Aron’s website— https://hsperson.com/
HSP Self-test-- https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/
HSP Child self-test-- https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-child-test/
Introversion, Extroversion and the Highly Sensitive Person by Jaquelyn Strickland, LPC-- https://hsperson.com/introversion-extroversion-and-the-highly-sensitive-person/
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MUSIC—Gravel Dance by Andy Robinson www.andyrobinson.com
Youtube--https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOE6fodj7RBdO3Iw0NrAllg/videos?view_as=subscriber
e-mail--[email protected]
Show hashtag--#unapologeticallysensitive
MUSIC—Gravel Dance by Andy Robinson www.andyrobinson.com
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