Harmony at Home, LLC

Private, personalized guidance in overcoming the hurdles of adolescence
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How it Works

Adolescent Behavioral Consultant, Amy Knowles M.A., with over a decade of experience, assesses function and adjustment issues in school, social circles, and family communication to provide clear, achievable goals which will provide your child with the tools to build a sturdy foundation for his future. 

Why Harmony At Home?

  1. Problems don't exist in a vaccuum. That is, acting out in one area may likely be a symptom of problems in another. With professional intervention, your child can learn how to manage issues. However, the therapeutic process is one that requires time to achieve results. 
  2. It is our belief that an safe, organized environment enables your child to fully focus on his clinical process by minimizing ongoing distractions, disruptions and risky situations.
  3. Harmony At Home, LLC provides an understandable, success-oriented, structured, supportive behavioral system which is designed to maximize the benefits of the therapeutic process your child may be involved in.

 

 

Home

Often, when we are close to a situation, our perspective can be skewed. Overcome by the onslaught of so many small details, parts of the larger picture are obscured. It’s as if we’re standing so close to a Monet that it appears to be nothing more than a jumble of colored dots. Stepping back into objectivity is difficult in intimate family relationships. Just as you know your child better than anyone, so your child knows you; emotions influence reactions and each others “buttons” and how to push them may as well be branded on our foreheads.

 

School

A major area of your child’s life, the experience at school has a significant impact  during the tumultuous years of adolescence. The feedback received by influential factors – relationships with peer groups, teachers and of the overall environment impacts how a child views him/herself as they begin to define themselves into adulthood. As most of us will remember, school (particularly high school) felt almost like a universe unto itself where the gravity of peers - the hierarchies of popularity, the close scrutiny of what we wore, how we acted, who our friends were, etc. were as real as a vivid, feverish, other-worldly dream - and once it was over, we were left with an evaporating memory of what it was all about.

Social

The company we keep, especially as a young person, is both influential and telling.  Has your child's peer group changed recently? How well do you know who your child hangs out with? This is the one area of a child’s life that parents have the least influence over and also the least supervision of. If your child's peer group has changed, you may ask yourself why - a wise question.