Parent Counseling
And
Remedial Education Support
Parenting is no longer an intuitive understanding accessible to all people. Our complex society brings completely new challenges. Comprehending how a child grows into his or her body helps us to meet the behavioral and health challenges that each presents. Through workshops, discussion groups or individual or couples counseling Caryn Hesse, M.S. explores childhood as the beginning of the journey toward becoming truly human. We will look together at how to create a family life that supports healthy and harmonious growth and development. Subjects covered include: how we grow into our bodies; sleep and bedtime; creating daily festivals and celebrations; discipline and behavior; health and illness; siblings; how to tell what is an age appropriate activity; “normal” vs. “individual”. Special sessions are devoted to working moms and stay at home dads. Discussion groups and workshops include time for conversation and questions as well as time for interactive work together.
Caryn Hesse, M.S. offers workshops and individual counseling to aid parents and families to understand to the growing child. She also provides counseling, assessment and remedial work to support attention and discipline concerns for kindergarten through twelfth grade, with special emphasis on adolescence. Caryn has 25 years experience in education and therapeutics. She has been an early childhood teacher as well as an instructor of new teachers in a community-based Waldorf setting called The Child’s Garden of the Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, N.Y. She has also taught children from K – 12 in the Otto Specht Special Class. This was an individualized program for children having difficulty in the orthodox classroom. Caryn has been drama director for actors of all ages and has taught English, History and Drama in grades 6-12. Currently she is practice manager and hydro therapist at Michael Community Therapeutics. She and her husband, Kent Hesse, M.D. have six children and four grandchildren.