How to Evaluate for Child Anxiety

When your child is experiencing anxiety, it can come in the form of worrying, feeling overwhelmed and shutting down or noncompliance. Many times, it can result in meltdown episodes.

When helping a child who is anxious, the critical step is in identifying what is causing it. There are many reasons why a child will develop anxiety.

Our intake at NPS looks “under every rock” to find the reason(s) of what is triggering your child to be overwhelmed, worried or unable to engage in life freely. We explore a comprehensive birth, developmental, homelife, peers, school, diet, sleep habits, etc since any of these or a combination can trigger anxiety.

Since we take an integrative approach, we know that the answer will be found in the imbalance of the child’s mind, body or soul. We offer alternative approaches to medications first and have many effective mindfulness strategies to help your child. Our goal is to address what is causing the anxiety, not just learn how to cope with it.