Shawny Sena, LMFT
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A Message For your Child...
HI! My name is Shawny, and I’m a therapist. Here’s what that means. So, just like your doctor helps you take care of your body and your teacher helps you take care of your mind, I help kids take care of their feelings. To show what I mean, I brought some friends here. These are the feelings from Pixar’s Inside Out — one of my favorites— this is Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. Now, in the movie, sometimes these feelings didn’t get along, and things got really loud and confusing. And the same thing can happen to us! So, when I work with kids, we help those feelings get along a little bit better with each other. My favorite part of my job is that i can to play with really cool kids every day. Some of the ways we play together are: reading books, playing games, making art, and even playing with puppets. Right? (Puppet nods). Now just like probably a lot of other things in your life, we are going to meet on video, instead of face to face. But I promise you, you will get to play exactly the way you need to. If you have any questions about me or about therapy, feel free to ask a grown up who you live with. I can’t wait to meet you! See you soon, bye!
Hi, I’m Shawny. So here is a thing that is true about therapy that most adults will not admit . . . therapy is weird! You are expected to talk to a stranger, you are expected to share your most private stuff, and it probably wasn’t your choice about whether to start therapy or maybe even which therapist you got to see. I super get that, and so this is what I do to help the weirdness. 1) You never have to share anything that you don’t want to. You always have the right to say no. 2) I have very strict rules about what I can and can’t share with parents, because your privacy is the most important thing to me. You will always know what those rules are, because I don’t believe in surprises when it comes to your privacy. 3) We don’t actually have talk at all. There are a lot of activities we can do that will probably help you feel a lot better that don’t involve talking at all. So, it’s ok with me if you’re like: “I don’t really feel like talking today, Shawny.” I hope that this answers some of you questions, but if you have other questions, please feel free to talk to an adult in your life. Or you can ask me when we meet. Alright, I’ll see you soon. Bye!