A Therapeutic Experience with NeuroConnect

After losing my husband – and my son’s father – I began to question my parenting and faced the challenge of how to parent a young boy on my own. I also had the worry of getting things right and was wondering if I was enough for my child now.

The therapist provided me and my son with Theraplay® and worked with us for about 10 months. They introduced fun play between myself and my son and showed us how we can communicate and just enjoy each other in simple ways.

The sessions with our therapist helped me to process some of my grief alongside helping build confidence in me as a parent. I feel much more confident and able now to parent my son without as much worry as I did previously about getting things right all the time.

It helped encourage me that often he just wants the closeness of me and we don’t have to do lots of boisterous play for it to be meaningful to him. I have seen changes in me as a parent and now feel more confident and comfortable in my parenting ability.

I also learnt how to not worry as much about the everyday frustrations we all have as parents and how that looks to children because I don’t have to get it right 100% of the time.

My son loved his sessions with our therapist, he knew the time was going to be fun and it was his special time with just mummy! He still talks now about enjoying the games we played.