Connection Haven Therapy

Connection Haven Therapy Relational therapy for children, teens, adults, couples, and families in Augusta and throughout Georgia.

Helping children, teens, and families heal, grow, and connect. Connection Haven Therapy is a Black woman-owned mental health practice serving children, teens, and families in Georgia—virtually and in person. We specialize in supporting young children/teens and neurodivergent youth navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional disconnection. Our holistic, culturally responsive approach is r

ooted in neuroscience, relationships, and embodiment. We help families move from stress and disconnection to confidence, connection, and wholeness. Through play therapy, DIR/Floortime, and parent coaching, we partner with families to nurture emotional development, strengthen relationships, and support mental wellness at every stage. We also offer coaching and workshops for parents of neurodivergent children, educators, and professionals seeking to create healing-centered environments.

➡️ Services include:

Therapy for children and teens (trauma, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence)

Reflective parent coaching

Workshops & training for schools, early childhood providers, and community programs


📍Serving Augusta & Metro Atlanta (in-person)
💻 Virtual services available statewide in Georgia

Learn more at connectionhaventherapy.com

Your child’s big feeling may not have started at bedtime.But by bedtime, it may be showing up everywhere.The same can be...
09/06/2026

Your child’s big feeling may not have started at bedtime.

But by bedtime, it may be showing up everywhere.

The same can be true after hard homework or a difficult workday. The feeling begins in one place, then spills over: another 45 minutes with Mom, a sharp tone toward a sibling, or distance from a child who wants connection.

This does not mean anyone is bad, manipulative, or “too much.”

It means the feeling may be bigger than their current capacity to hold it alone.

Emotional spillage is not about making feelings smaller or asking people to handle everything by themselves. It is about helping feelings have a place to land—without asking the whole family to carry them.

A need for connection can be real. A boundary can also remain.

“Your feelings are welcome here. We are learning that they need somewhere to go—not everywhere to go.”

Save this for the evenings when everyone is carrying more than they can name.

A healthy intimate relationship does not require you to become need-free. And it does not ask you to carry every need al...
09/06/2026

A healthy intimate relationship does not require you to become need-free. And it does not ask you to carry every need alone.

It invites the courage to say what is true beneath the resentment, anxiety, shutdown, or conflict: “This matters to me. I need you here with me.”

Then it asks something equally meaningful of the other person: not merely to understand, but to let that need move them toward a loving response.

That is not transactional love. It is chosen, responsive, covenant care.

At Connection Haven, we help couples look beneath the pattern, understand the hurts that make needing and receiving difficult, and practice more honest, connected ways of loving one another.

Sometimes, our fear can make us try to shape our children into what feels familiar, manageable, or safe to us.But an app...
09/04/2026

Sometimes, our fear can make us try to shape our children into what feels familiar, manageable, or safe to us.

But an apple tree is not failing because it does not produce oranges.

Our children are not here to become an extension of our unmet hopes, our fears, or the parts of ourselves we are still trying to resolve. They are entrusted to us to know, guide, protect, and love.

Parenting is not manufacturing a child into our image. It is learning who God made this child to be—and responding to what they need in order to grow well.

Lord, help me see my child clearly.

Save this for the days you need the reminder.

Sometimes we call it peace because we are no longer crying, arguing, or reacting.But quiet does not always mean calm.Cal...
09/01/2026

Sometimes we call it peace because we are no longer crying, arguing, or reacting.

But quiet does not always mean calm.

Calmness allows you to remain connected to yourself. You can still feel what is happening, recognize what you need, and choose how you want to respond.

Numbness creates quiet through disconnection. You may keep working, parenting, caring for everyone, and handling what needs to be done—while feeling distant from your own sadness, anger, exhaustion, or longing.

You may even think, “I’m not reacting anymore, so I must be healed.”

But the absence of a reaction is not always regulation. Sometimes it means your nervous system learned that feeling, speaking, or reaching was too overwhelming—or no longer seemed to change anything.

Numbness is not a failure. It is protection. But healing allows us to develop enough safety and capacity to feel without losing ourselves.

When you become quiet, do you feel more connected to yourself—or less?

Behavior is where we notice the struggle—but it isn’t always where the struggle begins.A child’s meltdown.A teen’s withd...
08/19/2026

Behavior is where we notice the struggle—but it isn’t always where the struggle begins.

A child’s meltdown.
A teen’s withdrawal.
An adult’s perfectionism.
A partner’s defensiveness.
A family’s repeated conflict.

It can be tempting to focus only on stopping what we see. But at Connection Haven, we also ask:

What is happening beneath the surface?
What is this response trying to communicate, protect, or manage?
What experiences, fears, needs, or beliefs have shaped this pattern?

Understanding does not excuse harmful behavior or remove accountability. It helps us create change that reaches deeper than temporary compliance.

Our approach is to:

1. Notice what is happening
2. Look beneath the surface
3. Understand the root
4. Recognize protective patterns
5. Develop new capacities
6. Respond with greater freedom

The goal is not to become someone who never struggles. It is to become more flexible, reflective, connected, and able to choose what comes next.

Because when we understand what has become frozen, we can begin to loosen what keeps us stuck—and learn to move through life and relationships differently.

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Sometimes the hardest part of parenting isn’t knowing what to do.It’s staying present when your child is hurting and you...
08/18/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of parenting isn’t knowing what to do.

It’s staying present when your child is hurting and you can’t make it go away.

We often talk about co-regulation as helping children “calm down.” But calm isn’t always the goal.

Sometimes a child is grieving.

Sometimes they’re afraid.

Sometimes they’re angry about a boundary.

Sometimes they’re anxious about school, a medical procedure, or something new.

And sometimes their distress is a completely appropriate response to what they’re experiencing.

Co-regulation can look like helping a child move from:

“I’m overwhelmed and alone in this”

to

“This is still hard, but I’m supported while I move through it.”

That requires something from us as parents, too.

We have to learn how to notice when our child’s distress activates our own urgency to fix, rescue, stop the tears, or make everything feel better.

Sometimes the question is:

Does my child need this feeling to stop… or do I?

Supporting distress does not mean ignoring safety, dismissing pain, or leaving children to figure things out alone.

It means learning to distinguish between harm and a hard human experience.

And sometimes the most regulating thing we can offer is simply:

I know this hurts.

You don’t have to stop crying.

I’m right here.

We can do something hard together.

Because our children don’t always need us to make the feeling disappear.

Sometimes they need to learn:

I can feel this—and still be okay.

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There are moments in parenting when everyone is upset.Your child is crying, yelling, arguing, or saying something disres...
08/11/2026

There are moments in parenting when everyone is upset.

Your child is crying, yelling, arguing, or saying something disrespectful. You can feel your own body getting louder inside. And honestly? The last thing you feel like doing is coming back to the conversation.

Sometimes we need the break too.

Not because we do not love our children. Not because we are “bad at parenting.” But because we know that if we keep talking in that moment, we may say or do something that makes the rupture bigger.

The goal is to make sure the space does not feel like:
“Come back when you are easier to be with.”

It can sound more like:

“I am too upset to talk well right now.”
“I need a few minutes.”
“You are not in trouble for having big feelings.”
“We are going to talk about what happened.”
“I will come back.”

And then—this is the hard part—WE RETURN AND RECONNECT.

There can still be a consequence. There can still be a boundary. We are not pretending disrespect or misbehavior is okay.

But we are also teaching our children that a hard moment does not mean love has left the room.

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Sometimes the most loving response is not an immediate response.When our children—or the people we love—are dysregulated...
08/09/2026

Sometimes the most loving response is not an immediate response.

When our children—or the people we love—are dysregulated, disrespectful, disappointed, or overwhelmed, it can activate something in us too. Taking a brief pause to regulate is not rejection when we return with intention.

The difference is whether the pause protects connection or withholds it.

Children need boundaries. They also need repeated experiences of learning that conflict does not cancel love; feelings do not make them unworthy of closeness; and a rupture can be repaired.

“I love you, and this behavior is not okay” can exist in the same sentence.

That is not permissive parenting. That is secure, long-term relationship building.

What if you didn’t have to silence a feeling—or let it take over—to listen to what it is trying to tell you?Feelings on ...
08/03/2026

What if you didn’t have to silence a feeling—or let it take over—to listen to what it is trying to tell you?

Feelings on the Table™ is a reflective intervention built around one central truth:

Every feeling is welcome at the table.
Every feeling has something to tell us.
But every feeling does not get to lead us.

Love may sit beside exhaustion.
Gratitude may sit beside grief.
Hope may sit beside fear.
Tenderness may sit beside anger or resentment.

The presence of a difficult feeling does not make you ungrateful, unfaithful, or “too emotional.” Feelings are information from the mind, body, nervous system, and relational experiences. They may reveal a need, a limit, a longing, an old wound, or something that no longer feels sustainable.

But a feeling’s first interpretation is not always the whole truth.

At the table, we make space to:

• Notice what we feel
• Name what is happening in the body
• Listen for what the feeling is communicating
• Discern what is true, what belongs to the past, and what needs attention now
• Respond from wisdom rather than guilt, fear, urgency, or over-functioning

This is not about making uncomfortable emotions leave the table. It is about creating enough safety, curiosity, and connection to hear them without allowing any one feeling to make every decision.

And we do not come to the table alone.

“Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.”
—Psalm 62:8

God is not intimidated by the fullness of our emotional lives. We can bring Him the love, the anger, the fear, the joy, the grief—and ask for wisdom about what comes next.

Which feeling has been asking for a seat at your table lately?

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Children are not projects to complete.They are people becoming.And parenting asks us to guide that becoming with wisdom,...
05/06/2026

Children are not projects to complete.
They are people becoming.

And parenting asks us to guide that becoming with wisdom, faith, humility, and love.

Not control.
Not panic.
Not the pressure to guarantee every outcome.

Yes, children need structure.
They need guidance.
They need limits, values, and direction.

But they also need room to grow, unfold, make mistakes, repair, question, learn, and become.

Sometimes our desire for certainty comes from love.

But our children do not need us to know the whole future.

They need us to stay steady, present, prayerful, and connected as we walk with them into it.

Can we parent with faith, wisdom, and clarity without demanding certainty from a future we cannot fully control?

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233 Davis Road Suite 1
Martinez, GA
30907

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Monday 11:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 11:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 11:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 12:30pm

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