Growing Minds

06/12/2026

Enjoy a parents' night out while your kiddos have fun with our staff at Growing Minds
To register:
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06/12/2026

BFF: Belonging, Feelings, and Friendship! This group is especially for children who would benefit from extra support with social skills, emotional regulation, and peer relationships. Through play, games, creative activities, storytelling, and guided interaction, children will learn and practice important skills such as understanding feelings (their own and others’), managing big emotions, problem-solving and conflict resolution and building confidence in social situations. In this group, therapeutic play activities are intentionally designed to help children express themselves, build social confidence, and strengthen emotional skills in a safe, low-demand, and nurturing environment. Our goal is to help children grow socially and emotionally while having fun, building connections, and developing skills they can use at school, at home, and in their community.
For our K-2 group: We plan to incorporate elements of everyone’s favorite character: Bluey, building, making, art and so much more.
July 20-July 31, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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06/12/2026

BFF: Belonging, Feelings, and Friendship! This group is especially for children who would benefit from extra support with social skills, emotional regulation, and peer relationships. Through play, games, creative activities, storytelling, and guided interaction, children will learn and practice important skills such as understanding feelings (their own and others’), managing big emotions, problem-solving and conflict resolution and building confidence in social situations. In this group, therapeutic play activities are intentionally designed to help children express themselves, build social confidence, and strengthen emotional skills in a safe, low-demand, and nurturing environment. Our goal is to help children grow socially and emotionally while having fun, building connections, and developing skills they can use at school, at home, and in their community.
For our 3-5th grade group: We plan to incorporate gaming, legos, D&D, and the other interests of the group.
July 20-July 31, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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06/11/2026

Lil’ Monsters Playdates Therapy Group - for children ages 3-5 years old
So many things feel big, scary, and unpredictable in our children's world! What happens when we sit with, play with, nurture, and become friends with our monsters? Each weekly session provides new opportunities for developing tools that help children process, express & learn how to navigate common worries and stressful situations (such as monsters, the dark, and saying goodbye) through playful activities with monsters. Talking about feelings and developing inner resources helps children gain a sense of empowerment, mastery, and resilience!

CHILD MEETING SCHEDULE
Tuesdays 12:00-1:00pm
July 7 (no July 14) July 21 July 28 (no Aug 4) Aug 11 Aug 18 Aug 25

Virtual PARENT MEETING
TBD

To register:
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06/11/2026

Welcome to Tummy Troopers, a parent-child therapy group designed to support your child’s toileting journey through play! This interactive group helps children overcome toileting challenges, develop healthy bathroom habits, and build confidence through fun, engaging activities. Tummy Troopers provides guidance for common GI challenges such as constipation, withholding, and potty-learning struggles, all in a supportive and stress-free environment. Books, games, music, sensory activities and toys are used to set the stage to learn about our bodies and how to let go in the right place at the right time! Parents receive resources and learn strategies that can be implemented at home following every group meeting.

Thursday 4:30-5:30 pm
Parent Virtual Session: 6/24 at 6:30pm
Group Sessions: 6/25, 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, (skip 8/6), 8/13, 8/20

To register:
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06/11/2026

Growing Minds clinician, Isabelle Spicer, LCSW-C, shares this with us. Designers are becoming aware of the needs of ND individuals.

Farah Conn, completing her final year in fashion technology at Heriot-Watt University, designed ""Little Waves"" — a seaside-inspired children's clothing collection built around the sensory needs of children with autism and sensory processing sensitivities. The design decisions are a catalog of what mainstream children's clothing gets wrong and what happens when you design with those failures in mind: ultra-soft fabrics, flattened seams that eliminate the pressure ridges that standard seam construction creates, removable labels, and built-in sensory fidget beads sewn directly into pockets.
The significance for children with sensory sensitivities is practical and daily: clothing that causes discomfort or overstimulation doesn't just make children uncomfortable — it occupies cognitive and regulatory resources that would otherwise be available for learning, play, and social engagement. A child managing sensory distress from their clothing throughout a school day is a child whose capacity for everything else in that day is diminished. Reducing the sensory load of the clothing restores that capacity.
Innovation in fashion is usually framed around aesthetics or materials. Farah Conn's innovation is about inclusion — about the recognition that mainstream children's clothing was designed without considering the full range of children who wear it. The solution is not technically complex. It required someone to notice the gap and design for the people it was leaving out.