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Join Our Emotional Regulation Parent + Child Workshop!

Winter Cohort- 2025

Do you have a child who...

  • struggles with managing their anger, frustration, anxiety, or sadness?

  • whose ability to self-regulate continually impacts their relationship with you, siblings, peers, teachers, or other adults?

  • experiences academic or social challenges that might be related to emotional regulation difficulties?

  • alongside you, could benefit from learning strategies to recognize and manage emotions more effectively?

  • shows difficulty with expressing their emotions, often times shutting down and difficult to engage?

  • has a difficult time listening to you? You repeat yourself multiple times, but still don’t see follow through?

If so, this workshop can help!  

Led by an experienced mental health therapist AND a pediatric occupational therapist, this workshop focuses on the parent and child relationship. We help with identifying and understanding emotions, learning how to co-regulate emotions, using coping skills and strategies for the different emotions, and overall helping your child be able to manage their emotions in a healthy and productive way.

Workshop Details

Duration: Six sessions

Timing: Thursdays, 6:00-7:00 PM

Jan. 23rd, Jan. 30th, Feb. 6th, Feb. 13th, Feb. 20th, + Feb. 27th

Suitable for: Ages 5-10 years old

Location: Omnia Paratus Gym

610 E William Street, Apex, NC

Cost: If paying upfront, a total of $366 for the whole workshop ($61/session). This includes all of the family who will be attending.

If paying in monthly installments - $140/month ($70/session)

SORRY OUR WINTER WORKSHOP IS FULL!

THE WORKSHOP IS CAPPED AT 6-7 FAMILIES. IF THIS WORKSHOP IS OF INTEREST TO YOU, BUT THE TIME DOESN'T WORK PLEASE LET US KNOW! 

TESTIMONIALS

  • “This workshop has helped me become a more compassionate parent. It has also helped my daughter understand her emotions and how to express them. She felt safe to express whatever she was feeling and we were able to constructively talk about it. When she is upset, I am able to talk to her about things we have worked on in class. It is very helpful because it is not just her Mom saying it, I am reminding her of what we worked on! I would recommend this to anyone, whether they have neurodivergent children or not!” -Katie R., Child Age 6

  • “This workshop was a wonderful experience for our whole family. It's really helpful to have these discussions about struggles in our household and hear from other families about having those same struggles. All of us learned to be better about expressing our feelings and to have more patience with each other and ourselves. It's amazing to watch something click in your kid and them understand that if we just talk about it we can work it out together. I would recommend this workshop to any family.” - Nicki W.,Children Age 8 + 10

  • “This workshop series helped our family to have open conversations about things that we typically would not have had. Parenting workshops/classes I have attended in the past were just for me, but it was super powerful to have my child there with me. We were both able to learn side by side which had a huge impact.” Lauren W., Child Age 8

  • "Our experience with the Emotional Regulation workshop was overall a positive one. We enjoyed the different topics discussed and felt we could relate to pretty much everything discussed in one way or another. It led to some really great conversations during family dinners, we shared what we learned with other siblings that weren't present at the classes, and we continue to use strategies, tools and suggestions given during the workshop daily. Highly recommend this workshop with Kylee & Erika if you are struggling with big feelings, big reactions and are sort of lost in how to handle everyday difficulties with children!" Robyn S., Child Age 7

What Topics will the Workshop Entail?

  1. Identifying and understanding emotions, including learning about internal body cues and connecting them to the emotions you're feeling.  

  2. Identifying healthy and unhealthy emotional responses.

  3. Learning about the inner critic and positive self-talk.

  4. Strategies for improving frustration tolerance and impulsivity.

  5. Understanding co-regulation skills, setting boundaries, and providing expectations. 

  6. Increasing awareness on how sleep, exercise, food, sunlight, screens, and sensory needs affect emotional regulation.

Each session begins with a review of the previous week’s session, breathe work, and a gross motor activity.

HEY, I’M KYLEE!

I'm the pediatric occupational therapist who will be Erika's partner in running this workshop! As a pediatric OT, I've been able to work with many families over the years, and one common challenge that I see is emotional regulation. Heck, as a parent to twin four-year old girls this is something that I face on a daily basis.

Like most of you- I learned a lot about myself during COVID. I took this as an opportunity to grow and change. Instead of wanting to change my children, I focused on changing me as the parent through integrating self-regulation techniques to help calm my nervous system and increasing my knowledge on child-behavior. I also focused on creating a home environment that fostered growth, self-control, and functional independence in my children. I started building new simple habits, which later turned into life-changing routines for me and my family.

This made me want to reach more parents, and share my experience of motherhood, personal development,  and working as an occupational therapist with you.

I can't wait to work with you and your child!

HEY, I’M ERIKA!

I'm from NY and loving our journey in Apex, NC since 2017. I am a mom of two; ages 4 and 6. As a mental health professional I have developed my niche of utilizing a holistic approach and framework while supporting clients through fitness and movement. During COVID, my husband and I married our loves of mental health + fitness together in 2020 and created a brick and mortar gym in Apex. We utilize a variety of techniques to help symptom reduction, regulate the nervous system through breath work, self talk, empowerment, mental strength, strength training, rapport building and challenging ourselves to find our best self!

This journey of creating these workshops with Kylee hit home when I was actively supporting my youngest who was working on emotional regulation and frustration tolerance. It was hard to swallow as a parent but I hit the ground running to figure out how I could be a better teacher and supporter for my son and allow him to be successful. While working with an OT we were able to make significant changes in a short time. This sparked our idea of helping other families to find hope and allow families to feel success with professional support!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Absolutely! If this is the route you want to go, send us an email and we can send you a specific type of invoice to pay with.

  • Yes we do. You can send via Zelle to 435-680-0768 (Kylee Leavitt) or Venmo @erika-hoeckberg. Please leave your first and last name with your email address in the notes. You must send money in order to reserve a spot for you and your child.

  • By signing up for the workshop, you are holding and securing a spot for you and your child. Due to this we do not offer refunds. However, if you are unsure if it will be a good fit, then we recommend you go the route of paying for it monthly, then you can opt out after the first month if it's not for you.

  • We highly recommend that both you and your child attend the workshop. It is required that you as the parent MUST be present. The goal is for you and your child to learn these skills together, so you can go home, work on these skills, and implement them together. We also break out into individual families each session.

  • No, you and your partner are able to alternate who attends the workshop. It is highly recommended that both parents know what goes on during each workshop, so you can implement it together at home.

  • Yes, both parents can attend with their child. We also let siblings attend who fall in the 5-12 age range. Many times the whole family attends if they fall in that age range.

  • Absolutely. We understand that things come up, vacations are planned, etc. Just let us know ahead of time if you'll be missing, and we will coordinate you coming early to our next workshop to go over previous material. We allow one make-up session.

  • We will offer one make-up session. Regardless, we will make sure you have the information you need from your missed session. We do not offer refunds.

  • This workshop does take place in a fitness gym. We will have different activities that will require movement and getting the heart rate up. We recommend coming in workout clothes and tennis shoes.

  • During the workshop, there will be instruction given, opportunities to vocalize emotions and real-life scenarios, group activities, and more. It is best that your child is able to be able to sit for 10+ minutes and follow 2-3 step directions. We do have fidgets for the kids to use during the session and do frequent movement activities.

  • Yes! We incorporate various gross motor, fine motor, and coordination activities throughout the workshop.