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Counseling/Therapy Services
Kristen Bohan, Pediatric OTR
Bridge a Life is happy to partner with Kristen AE Bohan Inc. Kristen offers occupational therapy services for children with a focus on developing a whole child's physical, emotional, and executive skills. She works to conquer the profound effects of trauma on both emotional and physical levels. Kristen is able to provide clinical skills, family education, sensory/reflex integration, generalization into swim/yoga/horseback/sports to help children have well rounded and interactive success.
Kristen can be reached at:
phone 941-545-3744
fax 888-411-9766
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Families needing financial assistance are encouraged to complete the inquiry package and release of liability.
Recommended Books
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
A “courageous, compassionate, and rigorous every-person’s guide” (Christina Bethell, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) that shows the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope and heal from these emotional traumas.
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.
The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
This book provides 12 strategies to promote healthy brain development and help integrate our children’s right brain (emotional) and left brain (logic). It teaches parents how to connect with their children when emotions are high and then practice with their children a different, healthier way to process those difficult feelings.
The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
In The Yes Brain, the authors give parents skills, scripts, and activities to bring kids of all ages into the beneficial “yes” state.
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, the authors explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.
The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family
The Connected Child, co-authored by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, has helped countless adoptive and foster parents better connect with their children as they seek to love and care for them in a way that honors God.
Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships
Integrating new findings in neuroscience and attachment with Christian spirituality, Dr. Thompson reveals how it is possible to rewire your mind, altering your brain patterns and literally making you more like the person God intended you to be.
Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us In Worry and Guilt
In this provocative book, author Leslie Leyland Fields explores with refreshing honesty the myths that can lead to unrealistic expectations and distract us from God’s purposes for our children and for us.
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma
This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.
Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Wounded Children Healing Homes addresses the reality of unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized children.
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
Carol Kranowitz’s The Out-of-Sync Child broke new ground by identifying Sensory Processing Disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system misinterprets messages from the senses. This newly revised edition features additional information from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.
Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well
Emotional safety—more than any other factor—is scientifically linked to raising kids who live, love, and lead well. Learn how to use emotional safety as a foundation from which you parent—and make a cultural impact that could change the world!
Discipline That Connects With Your Child's Heart: Building Faith, Wisdom, and Character in the Messes of Daily Life
Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehavior shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it's vital to connect with their hearts--not just their minds--amid the daily behavior battles.
Recommended Articles
Recommended Children's Books
The Penguin and the Fine-Looking Fish
The Redo Roo
Doggie Doesn’t No Know
It’s Tough to be Gentle
Baby Owl Lost her Whoo
The Elephant with Small Ears
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
William Wobbly and the Very Bad Day
Charlie Chatty and the Wiggly Worm
Sophie Spikey Has a Very Big Problem
The Feelings Book
We Belong Together
Rosie's Family
