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Emotional Regulation Skills for Kids: Helping Children Understand and Manage Big Feelings

Emotional Regulation Skills for Kids: Helping Children Understand and Manage Big Feelings

Helping kids learn how to handle their emotions in safe and healthy ways is one of our most important tasks as parents and caregivers. This blog explores what emotional regulation is, how parents can help, and concrete tools to use to help your child better understand and manage their emotions and themselves.

Coping Skills, Mental Health, Parenting, ResourcesCourtney BrandonAugust 15, 2026parenting anxious children, Parenting, anxiety, children, coping skills, emotional regulation

20 Tips to Build a Stronger Relationship with Your Child.

20 Tips to Build a Stronger Relationship with Your Child.

Good parent-child relationships don’t just happen. We need to be intentional about our actions so that we can build and maintain the kind of relationships that can carry children through hard times and help them develop into healthy adults.

Children, Parenting, RelationshipsCourtney BrandonAugust 3, 2026Knoxville Counseling ServicesParenting, relationships, children

Grief in Children of Divorce

Grief in Children of Divorce

Children, Divorce, Parenting, RelationshipsCourtney BrandonNovember 7, 2024children, Grief, Parenting, co-parenting

Supporting Kids with Anxiety in a Positive Way

Supporting Kids with Anxiety in a Positive Way

Blog, Children, Coping Skills, Mental Health, Parenting, AnxietyCourtney BrandonJanuary 8, 2023anxiety, Parenting, counseling, coping skills, therapy, therapist, parenting anxious children, childrenComment

Understanding Perfectionism in Children

Understanding Perfectionism in Children

Children, ParentingCourtney BrandonJanuary 19, 2020Knoxville Counseling Serviceschildren, perfectionism, Parenting

5 Ways Overparenting May Be Affecting Your Child's Self-Esteem

5 Ways Overparenting May Be Affecting Your Child's Self-Esteem

Children, Parenting, TeenagersCourtney BrandonApril 22, 2019children, child development, self esteem

Parental Alienation: What is it, Who Does it, and How it Affects Children

Parental Alienation: What is it, Who Does it, and How it Affects Children

Children, Divorce, Parenting, BlogCourtney BrandonFebruary 25, 2019Parenting, children, divorce, separationComment

15 Ways to Show Kids They Are Loved

15 Ways to Show Kids They Are Loved

Children, Parenting, Teenagers, ResourcesCourtney BrandonFebruary 11, 2019Knoxville Counseling Serviceschildren, Parenting, teens, attachment, relationshipsComment

What You Need to Know About Play Therapy

What You Need to Know About Play Therapy

Children, Parenting, Resources, TherapyCourtney BrandonFebruary 9, 2019Knoxville Counseling ServicesParenting, children, play therapy, mental health Comment

Parenting Your Anxious Child

Parenting Your Anxious Child

Children, Coping Skills, ParentingCourtney BrandonFebruary 2, 2019Knoxville Counseling ServicesParenting, children, anxietyComment

The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children

The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children

Children, Parenting, Mental HealthCourtney BrandonJanuary 25, 2019Knoxville Counseling ServicesParenting, children, anxiety, mental healthComment

Parenting a Child With Depression

Parenting a Child With Depression

Children, Parenting, therapy, DepressionCourtney BrandonDecember 7, 2018Parenting, mental health, depression, childrenComment

Are You Reacting or Responding to Your Children?

Are You Reacting or Responding to Your Children?

ParentingCourtney BrandonNovember 30, 2018Parenting, Relationships, children, teenagers, communicationComment

Therapist Approved Reading List for Parents of Children Ages 2-10 (and Beyond).

Therapist Approved Reading List for Parents of Children Ages 2-10 (and Beyond).

Children, Parenting, ResourcesCourtney BrandonNovember 26, 2018Knoxville Counseling Services, PLLCParenting, children, child development, booksComment

Helping Children Learn and Develop Gratitude Practices

Helping Children Learn and Develop Gratitude Practices

Mindfulness, Parenting, Positive Psychology, GratitudeCourtney BrandonNovember 19, 2018Knoxville Counseling Services, PLLCParenting, gratitiude, mental wellness, happiness, children, teenagers Comment

Helping Your Child Grieve Your Divorce

Helping Your Child Grieve Your Divorce

Parenting, DivorceCourtney BrandonOctober 31, 2018Grief, divorce, children, mental health, mental wellness, teensComment

What You Should Know About Your Child's Prefrontal Cortex

What You Should Know About Your Child's Prefrontal Cortex

ParentingCourtney BrandonOctober 29, 2018Knoxville Counseling Services, PLLCPrefrontal Cortex, brain, neuroscience, children, teenagers, Parenting Comment