Family Consulting

Special Needs/Mental Health Issues

• ADHD
• Behavior Difficulties
• Developmental Disorders 
• Autism 
• Learning Disabilities
• Physical Disabilities

The idea of a family consultant is similar to that in the business world.  Your family may benefit from our expertise in working with children with special needs.  Parenting children with special needs is sometimes difficult and it's hard to always know what to do. Receiving some outside advice does not mean somethings wrong, it only means you are willing to do what it takes for your family.

The Consultant will help your family identify areas of concern, identify family strengths and develop an action plan to alleviate these concerns.  The Consultant will provide guidance, support, and advice to the members of your family to address concerns relating to the identified issues and help guide the family toward their goals, whatever they may be.  The Family Consultant will provide the family with a comprehensive report identifying strengths, needs, areas of improvement, and an action plan.  It's our goal to be as thorough as possible with your family and to ensure we meet your every need.   

If your family is seeing a therapist, we will work with that therapist to ensure their treatment goals are carried out in the home.  Our consultants are licensed therapists, Social Workers and experienced child and family professionals dedicated to providing in-home services to families who have children with special needs.  

Our consultants are experts in their fields, and will help your family to:

• Implement a behavior modification or treatment plans to address your child's needs

• Cultivate a better understanding of your children and their special needs

• Create fulfilling, positive relationships with your children

• Grow and develop together as a family

• Become present, confident, satisfied, and content parents

• Identify potential dysfunctional patterns and implement new strategies to change those patterns 

• Help your children learn how to communicate their feelings effectively and reduce attention-seeking behavior.

• Identify specific parenting patterns and practices and evaluate their effectiveness.

• Evaluate nutritional information to identify potential foods that contribute to behavior issues.

Consultation topics may include:

• Adjustments of the home environment to accommodate the special needs of your child
• Organization of the home environment
• Maintaining consistency and structure
• Using effective communication techniques
• Understanding your child’s behavior and development
• Developing discipline and guidance strategies to address challenging behaviors
• Restructuring and modification of difficult routines;
• Fostering independence in your children such as dressing and undressing, preparing food, cleaning up after themselves, toilet learning, helping around the home, etc.
• Creating and providing learning opportunities in the home such as language and math activities, fine and gross motor activities, basic skills and concepts (Shapes, numbers, counting, letters, etc.)
• Promoting positive and loving parent/child relationships
• Helping each family member understand their role within the family and how their actions (or inactions) may affect others in the household.
• Setting goals for the family and having a plan to achieve those goals.
• Identifying habits and routines that unintentionally contribute to difficulties within the home.

Consultation Pricing

All packages are custom designed to meet your family's individualized needs.  Generally,  The consultation fee is charged at an hourly or by using a retainer.  Sliding scale fees are available.  The hourly rate is $65 per hour.

Consultation Packages

Nanny Service plus 10 hours of in-home consultation - Call for Pricing

Nanny Service plus 15 hours of in-home consultation - Call for Pricing

Nanny Service plus 20 hours of in-home consultation - Call for Pricing

Consultation Retainer - Call for Pricing

The in-home services may be used in one week, or spread out over several weeks or months-whatever makes the most sense for your family.