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COASTAL COPING
Child Life Private Practice
& Consulting
A Certified Child Life Specialist...
is a trained healthcare professional who helps improve children's coping with challenging healthcare and life experiences through the use of therapeutic modalities such as medical play, age appropriate diagnosis education, non-pharmacological pain management, expressive play, coping plans, sibling support, legacy building, grief support and more. A CCLS utilizes a variety of techniques based in an extensive knowledge of child development to meet the individual needs of children and families facing healthcare experiences.
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Whether your child/teen needs help coping with routine or unexpected healthcare encounters, support understanding a caregiver's diagnosis, witnessed a traumatic medical event, or is preparing to be promoted to big brother/big sister, a CCLS can help support kids and families at all levels of care from regular check ups, to medical procedures, emergency care or new life-altering diagnosis. Our goal is to ensure all children facing medical challenges have an opportunity to still be a kid, to still have a childhood. We do this through play, preparation, empowerment and support.
CHILD LIFE PRIVATE PRACTICE SERVICES
Child Life private practices provide a variety of services to children & families, healthcare professionals, schools, and child life students. Please explore our menu of services. Looking for a service that is not listed here? Please contact us to share more about your needs. We understand each person's needs are different. We will do our best to design individualized interventions which are within our scope of clinical practice.
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Testimonials
"We found ourselves in a situation we had not imagined/ prepared for. My nearly four year old son was heading to the emergency room sick with his dad while I was in labor and in the hospital getting ready to deliver. Our son woke up not being able to walk and his blood work showed levels similar to those of someone with leukemia. He was admitted to the hospital and was monitored and evaluated by different doctors over the weekend while we waited for a bone marrow biopsy. Being overwhelmed in the hospital with different potential diagnosis for my 4 year old and having a new baby led me to reach out to Coastal Coping. After talking with them I felt so much more prepared to help my son understand what was going on in a developmentally appropriate way and had tools to explain what might occur which helped ease some of the stress of all of us. I am so thankful and lucky that things have taken a better turn for us with his health and am so thankful for the support we received and tools to help our son during that difficult time. We even received some ideas of how to help ease the transition for when our son was able to come home from the hospital and also experience being a big brother for the first time! Â Thank you for the support and developmentally appropriate guidance during a difficult time!"
