Child Life Coaching & Counseling
How BOTH Support Children’s Mental Health
Mental Wellness
Life Coaches
Life Coaching
Helps children build a foundation for mental wellness by developing mindset skills for self-esteem, confidence, resilience, happiness, and self-leadership so that they can be prepared to thrive in life.
Proactively helps children before there is a crisis. Children learn to develop resilience and coping skills so that they can navigate life’s disappointments, manage change, move past mistakes, manage worries, overcome fear, and move through life empowered.
Coaches help children develop empowering mindset skills through training, discussion, and activities so that children learn and apply the skills to their own lives.
Coaches help children love and honor themselves, respect themselves and others, make good decisions and stand up to peer pressure, feel confident to try new things, and teaches how to set and achieve goals, so that kids create a life they love.
Life coaching helps lower the resistance some parents have towards mental health support for their children.
Life coaches are part of a parent’s team and provide invaluable mental wellness training to children who are not in crisis. Coaches often help children who are struggling with self-esteem, confidence, shyness, worries, fear, change, and social/friendship issues.
From: “Child Life Coaching & Counseling.” Adventures in Wisdom Inc, Copyright ©2012-2023. Reprinted with permission.
Mental wellness
Prevention
Training
Creating
their future
No stigma
Available now
Counseling
Mental illness
Intervention
Helps children who are struggling with a mental health diagnosis or issue by supporting them in recovering their mental and emotional health.
Helps children who are in crisis and struggling to function day-to-day, get back on track and lead a more productive life.
Counselors & Therapists
Treatment
Healing for
their
future
Some stigma
Waiting list
Counselors help children heal from serious issues such as severe anxiety, depression, self-harm, abuse, and trauma so that they can regain their mental health.
Mental Illness
Counselors often treat children dealing with a diagnosis behind emotional and/or behavioral problems such as ADHD/ADD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, OCD, etc., so that they can manage these conditions.
Although society has made great progress in discussing metal health, some parents are still reluctant to hire a counselor for their children.
In this post-Covid world, most cities across the US have waiting lists for counselors and therapists - leaving so many children without support when they need it the most.