Savoring: enjoying an experience slowly, in order to lengthen the enjoyment, is the best gift that we can give to ourselves and to our children and loved ones! Please read the mental health benefits and resources below. In our culture of over-achievement and “efficient schedules,” it is common to rush from one experience to another…
Enjoy Dr. Bermudez‘ workshop at the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Institute. Experiential Co-Regulation in Family Play Therapy with Young Children. June 3, 10am-1pm
Dr. Bermudez will present the session “Cultivating Cultural/Racial Empathy in Young Children” on May 2, 12:30pm.
Managing emotional meltdowns (aka temper tantrums for younger children) has been the most frequently requested topic in my 20 years providing family therapy and workshops for parents and childhood professionals. Similarly, most pediatricians cover the topic of temper tantrums at the 2-year wellness check-ups. To aid these conversations, the American Academy of Pediatrics created the…
Twenty years of working as a therapist and mental health consultant/trainer have taught me that wellness is a sequence of hardships and reparations. “A good life” is not full of joy and fortune; though we wish it would be, and the mass media leads us to believe so. Instead, any given person’s life is a…
Dr. Diana Bermudez will teach a 4-Part webinar series on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Early Childhood, hosted by The Source for Learning. These webinars will be recorded and available to view in English and Spanish in the Fall of 2022. Webinars Schedule Be the Change you Want to See: Are you Ready to Advance…
Separation anxiety in young children (birth-8) has been one of the most common challenges I have worked with in 2021, as a family psychotherapist and early childhood mental health consultant, in the Washington, DC metro area. As we have returned to in-person school, extra-curricular activities and socializing after a year of social distancing, some of…
When my son was 2 years old, he loved letting himself fall forward on a mattress, over and over as he beamed with excitement. His entire body safely bounced up and down. He perfected his technique over the years, and then started teaching it to me. I took these “Lessons on Falling” as a challenge to…
Fellow parents, our new reality of chronic stress and isolation due to the pandemic calls for new parenting approaches. New approaches could be novel or modified ways of being, which stem from thoughtful reflection, rather than actions without a clear purpose. Please notice my emphasis on BEING, rather than DOING. We are spending more time…
Our lives have changed. The rug was pulled from under our feet. We have spent a few months hovering between safety and minimal risk — juggling new roles, learning ways to stay safe, and grieving multiple losses. Now, as we contemplate the possibility of returning to some activities, we wonder, what are we walking…