Harmony at Home, LLC

Private, personalized guidance in overcoming the hurdles of adolescence
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                                       How can
Harmony At Home
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If you are the parent of a teenager who is at-risk because of the emergence of some or all of the following behaviors, we can help:

  • disruptive at home, frequently arguing with family members
  • poor academic performance or frequent suspensions
  • refusal to follow rules at home, violating curfew, etc.
  • negative changes in personality and peers
  • using alcohol, marijuana or other substances

 

Harmony At Home is a comprehensive service to assist your teen or pre-teenaged child in tackling barriers to successful progress in vital areas of a child's life. What we offer isn’t limited to hourly sessions once-a-week, but rather maximizes the benefits of all resources available. We utilize all supports-both existing and potential ones- to promote and strengthen the foundation that a young person’s life is built on. We tie all these pieces together and then personally assist you in helping your child maximize their benefits, accomplishing goals in each area more quickly. Every interaction is an opportunity. The skills developed during this process will serve your child into adulthood, such as:

  • problem solving
  • establishing and maintaining healthy peer relationships
  • building self-esteem and self-concept
  • conflict resolution and self-advocacy

 

Is your child involved with therapy, Juvenile or Family Court, CHINS & DCF?

If your child has current services in place, such as outpatient therapy or perhaps, family court and the Department of Social Services, we can help maximize the benefits of these services. By collaborating with other providers and working towards the goals established for your child at home, successful achievement of those goals can be reached more quickly.

 

Navigating the way through the court and social service arenas can be confusing and anxiety-provoking for both you and your child. Having a resource who knows the system and can provide clear, reliable guidance will assist in preventing any misunderstandings or further complications.

 

                                              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.
    1. Our aim is to help you provide a safe, reliable and success-based environment for your child as he tackles any clinical goals. This means eliminating safety risks, minimizing destructive or dangerous behavior and increasing compliance with rules and expectations- at home, at school and in the community.
    2. By providing in-home, after-hour and weekend service which includes individualized coaching and attention to assist your teen in managing the hurdles of adolescence, we are free from the limitations of office-based clinical or school-based educational providers.  
    3. We collaborate with your current service providers to support effort towards goals in other areas (school, community) as well. we endeavor to bring their goals home in order to 1) maximize the time spent in achieving them,  and 2) make productive hours out of those that may otherwise be spent fruitlessly or in the pursuit of counter-productive ends.
      We assist you in acting as your child's 'Care Manager',  working to manage the combined efforts of clinicians, teachers and other providers,  and synchronizing them to work together. We co-ordinate with all services, maintaining open communication and planning in each area.  

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.
Harmony At Home
774-571-3764

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.