Whole Family Clinic
Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts offers Free Clinic for Families with Babies that need help with any of the following:
We also combine massage, craniosacral, and trauma resolution approaches to help you and your baby. Many times, the baby needs to tell their story, so therapists talk with babies and observe their gestures and body movements as part of the story. Therapeutic influences include the work of John and Anna Chitty, Ray Castellino, Mary Jackson, Brigit Viksnins and the somatic approaches from Somatic Experiencing. We also educate parents about the nervous system, and work with their experiences to settle historical trauma, birth trauma and/or other aspects of family life.
If there is difficulty, further work may be warranted and treatment protocols will be suggested, with a list of practitioners in Charlottesville for follow up. These practitioners include bodyworkers, lactation consultants, and professional counselors or social workers. We refer to licensed practitioners only, and offer mentoring for licensed practitioners if they wish to assist in the clinic.
- Difficulty breastfeeding
- Body and head asymmetry
- Inconsolable crying
- Digestive difficulties including reflux
- Excessive crying in tummy time and other movements and games
- Positional discomfort especially when being held
- Difficulty sleeping
- Traumatic births
We also combine massage, craniosacral, and trauma resolution approaches to help you and your baby. Many times, the baby needs to tell their story, so therapists talk with babies and observe their gestures and body movements as part of the story. Therapeutic influences include the work of John and Anna Chitty, Ray Castellino, Mary Jackson, Brigit Viksnins and the somatic approaches from Somatic Experiencing. We also educate parents about the nervous system, and work with their experiences to settle historical trauma, birth trauma and/or other aspects of family life.
If there is difficulty, further work may be warranted and treatment protocols will be suggested, with a list of practitioners in Charlottesville for follow up. These practitioners include bodyworkers, lactation consultants, and professional counselors or social workers. We refer to licensed practitioners only, and offer mentoring for licensed practitioners if they wish to assist in the clinic.
In 2020, I was part of a research team that completed a study of the family work I do. Here is the abstract and the whole study and the short version are uploaded.
Abstract: In 2020, a retrospective study was conducted, examining 27 years of family sessions offered at the BEBA Family Clinic in California. Raymond Castellino, DC, and Tara Blasco, PhD, co-directors of the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment (BEBA) program, assembled a team of researchers for the study. Fifty-four previous BEBA Clinic participants completed a quantitative survey and 12 participated in qualitative interviews. The data gathered are shared in this report, providing the BEBA organization with feedback corroborating the program’s evolving principles and practices. The study and organization presents a model of child-centered family care to other professionals who are developing similar programs
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