Embrace Wellness

Parenting a growing child is hard. Embrace Wellness is here to provide you and your children with support, guidance, and practical strategies to cope with the pains and stresses that can accompany navigating childhood. and has a wait list for services. Children have an innate desire to feel secure. Negative experiences and life changes can impede a... childs feeling of security, leading to fluctuation in mood and an increase in problematic behaviors. Embrace wellness is here to help children and parents promote healthy expression of difficult feelings and experiences, and enhance the connection in the parent- child relationship. Compassion and connection the very things that give purpose and meaning to our lives can only be learned if they are experienced. And our families are our first opportunities to experience these things. Kelly Gordon, LCSW, owner of Embrace Wellness, is a child and adolescent mental health therapist who specializes in family-centered therapeutic approaches for children age 12 and younger with social, emotional, and behavioral issues. She is a Clinical Social Worker licensed in both Delaware and Maryland, and obtained her Masters of Social Work from the University of Maryland, with a specialization in children and families. Her experience and interest are in working with children with trauma histories, including sexual/physical abuse and neglect, as well as mood disorders, such as anxiety and depression. She has studied the principles of relational and attachment-based psychotherapy, and has extensive training in child-centered play therapy, infant/early childhood mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy for childhood anxiety, perinatal mood disorders, and trauma-informed yoga. As the only registered Circle of Security® Parenting educator in the state of Delaware, Kelly works with children and parents to promote healthy expression of difficult feelings and experiences, enhance the connection between the parent(s) and child, and help alleviate problematic behaviors. Kelly is also trained ...Read More