Limited summer sessions in Missoula using nature, movement, play, and connection to support children and caregivers.
When Big Feelings Take Over
Do you struggle to know what to do in your child’s big emotional moments — while they are happening? Does your child push you away and want you close at the same time?
Children often cannot tell us with words what is happening inside. Instead, they show us through behavior, movement, play, shutdown, control, clinginess, defiance, tears, silliness, intensity, or needing you close while rejecting your help at the same time.
Parenting is mystifying and lonely.
As a parent or caregiver, this can feel overwhelming and lonely. You may know your child is struggling, but not know what they need from you in the moment. You may be trying to stay calm, set limits, offer comfort, and make sense of it all at once.
It is a lot.
When Weekly Therapy Isn’t the Whole Answer
Sometimes weekly therapy is exactly the support you or your child needs.
And sometimes what you need instead — or in addition — is a focused deep dive with someone who can help you understand what may be happening underneath the behavior while supporting connection in real time.
A Focused Summer Offering for
Children and Caregivers
A nature-informed intensive brings this work into an environment that naturally invites movement, sensory experience, transition, uncertainty, exploration, repair, and regulation.
Nature gives children room to show what words cannot always hold. It also gives caregivers a different way to see, understand, and respond to the child in front of them.
What are Nature-Informed Parent-Child Intensives?
Nature-Informed Parent-Child Intensives offer a half-day (or more) focused therapeutic experience for children and caregivers who need more than advice, but do not need crisis care or a higher level of treatment.
These sessions use nature, play, sensory grounding, movement, and caregiver-child connection to support regulation, emotional expression, and relational repair.
A caregiver remains present and actively involved throughout the session. This is not a drop-off service. It is a supported experience for the child and caregiver together.
What will we do?
Each intensive begins with a virtual parent consultation so I can understand your child, your hopes for the session, and any safety or sensory needs. We will identify one clear focus, such as grief, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, a major transition, or reconnection after a stressful season. More than one focus may be identified if you choose a package option.
During the outdoor session, we may use child-led play, movement, sensory grounding, nature-based reflection, and simple caregiver-child connection activities. Your child will not be expected to sit still and talk like a small adult. We will follow what their nervous system, play, and body are showing us, while helping you understand and
respond with more attunement and confidence.
After the session, we will have another virtual parent integration follow-up to talk through what emerged, what supported regulation, what you noticed, and what may help at home.
What will you get from this?
You may leave with:
A clearer understanding of what your child may be communicating through behavior, play, movement, or big emotions
More confidence about what to do in difficult moments, instead of feeling like you are guessing, reacting, or walking on eggshells
Practical ways to support your child’s nervous system before, during, and after emotional overwhelm
A deeper sense of what helps your child feel safe, connected, and understood
Support noticing patterns that may be keeping you and your child stuck
A more compassionate lens for your child’s behavior, without removing limits or structure
A parent integration follow-up with observations, themes, regulation supports, and next steps you can bring into daily life
What will my child get from this?
Your child may experience:
A space where they do not have to explain everything in words in order to be understood
Support expressing feelings, needs, worries, grief, anger, or confusion through play, movement, and connection
A chance to feel seen by their caregiver in a different way
More felt safety in the parent-child relationship
Practice with choice, boundaries, repair, emotional expression, and returning to connection after hard moments
Support settling their body with help from nature, movement, and their caregiver
The experience of having their behavior understood as communication, not just something to correct
How can this help over time?
While one intensive is not a quick fix, it can offer a meaningful shift in how you understand and respond to your child.
Over time, this kind of work may support:
Fewer power struggles rooted in misunderstanding
More moments of connection before things escalate
Greater parent confidence in emotional and behavioral storms
A child who feels less alone with big feelings
More repair after conflict or disconnection
A stronger sense of trust between you and your child
More clarity about whether ongoing therapy, parent support, or other resources may be helpful
A shared experience you can return to as a reference point: “Remember what we learned about your body and big feelings that day?”
The goal is not perfect behavior after one session. The goal is more understanding, more regulation, more connection, and a clearer path forward.
This May Help You IF:
your child is between 4-10-ish
and
they or your family is navigating:
Grief or loss
Anxiety or big feelings
Major transitions or family stress
Difficulty expressing feelings through words
Parent-child disconnection after a hard season
Sensory sensitivity, intensity, or emotional overwhelm
This is not a good fit for:
Emergency or crisis care
Custody evaluations or forensic/legal questions
Situations involving acute safety risk or elopement risk
Families needing a higher level of care
Situations where a safe and suitable outdoor setting is not available
LIMITED SUMMER OFFERINGS
Nature-Informed Parent-Child Intensives are available for a small number of families this summer only.
Each intensive includes a parent consultation, a caregiver-present outdoor session, and a parent integration follow-up.
Sessions use nature, movement, play, and caregiver-child connection to support regulation, emotional expression, and relational repair.
Because this offering is limited and location-dependent, sessions are scheduled only when clinically appropriate and when a safe outdoor setting is available.
Limited spots are open now for Summer 2026.
Schedule a free consultation and see if this is a good fit for your child and family.
Choose Your Intensive
The Connection Reset
2-hour intensive — $600
A focused parent-child session for families needing support with emotional overwhelm, regulation, reconnection, or understanding what may be happening underneath a child’s behavior.
This is a good fit when you want a meaningful therapeutic experience without a longer half-day format.
The Rooted Half-Day
3-hour intensive — $900
A deeper short half-day experience for families needing more time to settle in, explore patterns, support emotional expression, and practice caregiver-child connection in real time.
This is a good fit when the concern feels layered, but your child may not have the stamina for a longer session.
The Deep Roots Intensive
4-hour intensive — $1,200
A longer half-day intensive for families wanting more spacious support for grief, anxiety, major transitions, relational stress, or patterns that feel hard to shift in daily life.
This format allows more time for settling, child-led exploration, connection work, parent support, and integration.
The Rooted Series
Three 2-hour sessions — $1,800
To be used within 2 weeks
A short-term intensive series for families who would benefit from repeated support over a focused period of time. This option allows us to build on what emerges, deepen regulation and connection practices, and support change across
more than one meeting.
This is a good fit when one session may not be enough, but ongoing weekly therapy is not the right fit or is
not available right now.
Included With Each Option
Initial Parent Consultation
1 hour — included
Before the intensive, we will meet by telehealth to discuss your child, your concerns, your hopes for the session, safety or sensory needs, and whether this offering is clinically appropriate.
Follow-Up Parent Consultation
1 hour — included
After the intensive, we will meet to discuss what emerged, what your child may have been communicating, what supported regulation and connection, and what next steps may help at home.
NOT INCLUDED:
Due to varying food preferences, allergies and limitations, snacks and lunches are NOT included.
Sunscreen is not included.
You will be expected to provide towels, a dry change of clothes, and appropriate clothing for the weather.