Putting the Co Back in Regulation

A relational approach to understanding and supporting your child’s sensory needs.

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What Is Co-Regulation?

Co-regulation is the process of one nervous system supporting another.

Children develop the ability to regulate their emotions, attention, and nervous system through repeated experiences of feeling safe, understood, and supported by their caregivers.

Co-regulation helps build a child’s capacity for self-regulation over time as their nervous system matures.

My Philosophy

This isn’t the traditional approach to occupational therapy or sensory support for children.

Through the Sensory + Sol framework, I believe that sensory processing develops best within the context of strong attachment relationships between a child and their caregivers.

It can be challenging, confusing, and isolating to raise a child with sensory needs. They need your sturdiness to regulate and participate more than other children do. And what they need may be more than you can offer them right now. This is not a parenting failure. This is your nervous system needing support before you can support your child.

Your nervous system flexibility helps to create the conditions for your child’s regulation skills to develop through co-regulation. And I’m here to help you discover what may be impacting your own regulation capacity and share tools to shift out of dysregulation.

I look at sensory needs in a broader lens. A relational lens. One that believes that your nervous system is an integral part of your child’s sensory environment.

Before I ask the question “what sensory supports does this child need to regulate themselves?”, I ask “are they oriented to adults who can help them develop foundational regulation skills?”

What I Offer

I offer support to you as the parent of a child with sensory needs

Through our 1:1 sessions, you will:

  • Broaden your understanding of sensory processing and how it may relate to your child’s experiences

  • Gain insight into your child’s unique sensory patterns based on your observations, lived experiences, and/or existing OT evaluation

  • Understand the role of co-regulation in the development of a child’s nervous system

  • Learn how your own nervous system regulation patterns impact your responses in daily parenting moments

  • Explore factors that may be influencing your capacity to stay regulated and responsive in parenting

  • Develop skills and tools to support regulation and recovery during everyday parenting moments

  • Feel more sturdy as the central regulator of your home

Please note: I do not provide formal assessment or determine diagnostic sensory profiles during these sessions. I provide parent education and support to help you better understand sensory processing, strengthen co-regulation, and respond to your child’s sensory needs with more sturdiness..

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Ready to Expand Your Perspective and Capacity in Parenting Your Child with Sensory Needs?

I’d love to join you on your journey of becoming their strongest sensory support

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