Ava Parnass is a BEHAVIOR DETECTIVE and a multi-faceted entrepreneur who spends time in the world of “Feeling Town” helping children and teens with their feelings and behavior. In addition Ava works with parents, writes books and songs and participates in social media, music and tv.
Ava is an advocate for the emotional-physical well being of children-adults! What we are all going through now is very hard! Life has changed! Our children need extra support. Our priority is our children’s mental health.
Please reach out, as a child and family psychotherapist Ava can help your kids feel better. She incorporates play-talk therapy and feelings games: Her feelings books-songs also help kids with their feelings.
ASK ABOUT: Online Feelings SessionsFor All Ages: Kids - Teens - Parents - Friends
- Online feelings groups geared for friends, 3-4 participants
- Sessions for Parents-Kids of all ages to help with all the very hard feeling
- Online group sessions for teens (Zoom)
- Feelings Groups - classroom setting or (Zoom)
- Individualized - customized child sessions in person or online
What to expect from the “Feelings Sessions”
The sessions are fun and supportive as well as helpful emotionally. Parents have reported that playing feelings games and talking -drawing feelings on zoom is helping a lot to improve their child’s -teen and families reactions to the trauma of isolation, illness and life in general.
The kids have said they’re having a great time and they feel so much better.
Now that the weather is nice and the quarantine is slowly beginning to lift please inquire about Ava’s socially distanced “feelings and moving classes” for the summer with three or four children at a time, in riverside park near 79 st.
About Ava
It is about Empathy, Compassion, Listening and Cognitive Techniques
Ava is a holistic eclectic psychotherapist for over 25 years, who attended Columbia graduate school and worked at NYH Cornell before private practice.
Treatment Modalities used: Feeling Town map, drawing, games, talking feelings, play therapy ,songs, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and family systems techniques. Ava also incorporate Healthy Feelings =Healthy eating, meditation spirituality and movement .
Ava Parnass helps children and families listen to the message underneath their behavior and figure out what emotional needs are to be met in addition to new coping skills.
I truly believe after decades in practice “It’s Easier to Build Up a Child Than to Repair An Adult.” I help parents and kids translate and understand the feeling and the message and emotions underneath a child’s behavior and or overeating. WE PUT HIDDEN feelings and BEHAVIOR into Words and New Skills.
Ava uses Empathy, compassion, listening, along with cognitive techniques leading to improved behavior and mental health.
👫 Parents! Become Behavior and Feelings Detectives – Connect with Ava for help in understanding the message and emotions underneath your child’s behavior and or overeating. Connect with Ava and learn the meaning of “Food Cravings” and why getting healthy is not about Will Power.
👫”MENTAL HEALTH HAPPENS WITH EMPATHY: ONE FEELING, ONE MOMENT, ONE TALK, ONE HUG, AT A TIME.” ©2018avaparnass
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🎶 Click here to discover Ava’s creative work as an author and songwriter.
✅ NOTE: AvaParnass.com is the new website, formerly known as ListentomePlease.com
