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10/10/2026

Halloween is a great time to practice connection!

Trick-or-treating creates natural opportunities to practice social-emotional reciprocity in a fun, low-pressure way.

🎃Model, don’t demand: Say “thank you” alongside your child rather than requiring them to perform it.
🎃 Preview what to expect: Practice a few options like “Trick or treat,” “Happy Halloween,” or a wave.
🎃Follow their communication style: Words, gestures, AAC, eye contact—or no eye contact—can all be valid ways to connect.
🎃Notice natural opportunities: Commenting on a costume, sharing excitement, or responding to a neighbor are all reciprocity.
🎃Praise connection, not compliance: Celebrate your child engaging in a way that feels authentic to them. 💙

The goal isn’t “perfect” social behavior—it’s connection, confidence, and self-advocacy. 🍬👻

10/04/2026

Last but definitely not least… meet the people behind the scenes at ECL! 🤍

Fun fact: Nicole and Damien are both originally from New York 🗽 and now help keep ECL running smoothly from behind the scenes!

✨ Nicole is truly the glue of ECL. She answers our phones and text messages, helps coordinate client care, manages records and communication, and keeps our day-to-day operations organized.

✨ Damien helps keep the business side of ECL moving, managing contracts and billing while guiding families through payment and financing options to make the process as seamless as possible.

They may not always be the faces you see in the assessment or therapy room, but they’re a huge part of the ECL experience from start to finish.

We couldn’t do what we do without them! 🤍

10/01/2026

📚✨ Meet Our Academic Support Team!

We’re excited to share about Derick and Heather, our Academic Support Tutors at Empower Child Learning!

Derick and Heather provide individualized, evidence-based academic intervention designed to meet students where they are and build both skills and confidence.

Support is available in:

📖 Reading
✏️ Writing
➗ Math
🧠 Executive Functioning — including organization, planning, task initiation, study skills, and managing assignments

At ECL, academic support is about more than just getting homework done. Our goal is to understand how a student learns and provide targeted intervention that strengthens foundational skills, builds independence, and helps students experience success.

Whether a student is struggling academically, has a learning difference such as dyslexia, ADHD, or executive functioning challenges, or simply needs more individualized support, Derick and Heather are here to help! 💛

09/24/2026

Why does a psychoeducational assessment cost so much? 🤔

It’s a question we hear from families—and a completely reasonable one.

In Southern California, comprehensive private psychoeducational evaluations often range from approximately $4500–$6500, with $5000 and up being common. But families are investing in much more than a few hours of testing.

A comprehensive assessment helps answer:

🧠 How does my child learn?
🔍 Why are certain things harder than expected?
🌱 What are their strengths?
🧩 What support or intervention do they actually need?
📈 How will we know if it’s working?

Behind the scenes, an evaluation can involve 15–25+ hours of record review, interviews, individualized testing, scoring, interpretation, report writing, recommendations, and feedback.

But the real value isn’t the number of tests or pages in the report.

It’s the roadmap that comes afterward.

Instead of continuing to ask, “Why isn’t this working?” families can move forward thinking:

“Now that we understand how my child learns, we have a roadmap for what they need to thrive.”

💛 Ready for more clarity? Schedule a free 30-minute phone consultation with one of our psychologists. We’ll learn more about your child and decide together whether an evaluation may be the right next step.

Cost ranges are examples only. Evaluation fees vary based on the provider’s expertise, scope, and individual needs of the child.

Empower Child Learning | Understand. Support. Empower.

09/18/2026

✨ Meet two more of the amazing providers at Empower Child Learning!

🧠 Kelsey Waldon, LEP is a Licensed Educational Psychologist with extensive experience supporting students from preschool through young adulthood. Kelsey brings a warm, playful energy to her work that helps kids feel comfortable and families feel supported and understood throughout the process.

💬 Jessica Womer, SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist with 15 years of experience supporting children with articulation, receptive and expressive language, and social communication needs. Jessica has a gift for making language and socializing fun, helping kids build skills through connection and engaging activities.

We love having Kelsey and Jessica as part of our multidisciplinary ECL team—bringing not only their expertise, but also the warmth and connection that help children and families feel at home. 💙

09/12/2026

⚡ Looking forward to being part of this!

I’ll be the first speaker at LEP Reboot’s Lightning Talk on September 18th! I’m up at 4:10 PM, right after the welcome, representing Empower Child Learning.

Join me and nine other LEPs for a fast-paced showcase highlighting the diverse expertise and perspectives within our LEP community. I’ll be sharing a little about the work we’re doing at ECL and our strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming approach to supporting children and families.

⚡ 10 speakers. 10 perspectives. One FREE event.

📅 September 18, 2026
⏰ Event starts at 4:00 PM | I’m on at 4:10 PM
🎟️ FREE event

Hope to see you there! 💙

09/11/2026

Sometimes progress in therapy can look like more emotion before it looks like less. 💛

In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), kids learn about the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. As they build emotional awareness, they may start naming feelings they couldn’t identify before—and connecting those feelings to memories or experiences.

To parents, this can sometimes look like, “They’re getting more emotional,” or even, “Are we focusing too much on the negative?”

But often, something important is happening: they’re developing the language to recognize, name, and talk about what they’re feeling instead of simply reacting to it.

That new awareness can create a bigger emotional wave at first. Over time, though, we can help kids learn to name it, understand it, and tame it.

More emotional language doesn’t always mean more emotional distress. Sometimes, it means more emotional skill. And that’s a win. 🌱

09/10/2026

Taking our Beyond Deficits: Strength-Based, Neurodiversity-Affirming adopted framework out for a spin in the community! 🌱

ECL’s First stop: ROWI in Temecula, where we had the opportunity to share with their mental health providers how shifting the lens from deficits to strengths can change the way we understand, talk about, and support neurodivergent children.

We loved bringing this conversation beyond ECL and into the community—and we’re just getting started. 💚

09/09/2026

A little office refresh 🌊🌿🐚

Our new treatment room door signs are FINALLY up after 6 months in our “new” Murrieta office.

Each room at ECL is inspired by our Coastal Elements theme:

🌊 Wave
🐚 Shell
🌿 Succulent
🪵 Drift

Each space has its own personality while still feeling calm, welcoming, and connected to nature.

Six months of procrastination. Five minutes to order. Totally worth it. 🤦‍♀️😂

09/07/2026

✨ Meet two more of the amazing professionals on the ECL team!

We’re excited to introduce Dr. Rebecca Van Sickle, Clinical Psychologist, and Erica Mingee, Licensed Educational Psychologist.

🧠 Rebecca brings specialized expertise—and genuine enthusiasm—for assessment and diagnosis of Autism and ADHD. She’s has a passion for helping families better understand their child’s unique profile, strengths, and needs. Her evaluations allow our families get a comprehensive assessment, with no waitlist, so their child can gain expedited access to appropriate insurance covered services that are crucial for early intervention.

💛 Erica brings extensive experience in trauma-informed care and intensive mental health services. She also supports parents through coaching using Love and Logic strategies, helping families build connection, confidence, and practical tools they can use at home. She has telehealth availability and weekend openings for assessment.

We’re so excited to have both of their unique expertise at Empower Child Learning! ✨

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92562–92564

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