ALPENA – Northern Michigan counselor and writer Alison Neihardt will visit Olivet Book & Gift for a guide signing on Saturday, Could 7. The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Olivet, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Chisholm Avenue in downtown Alpena.
Neihardt’s most current ebook, “Helping Young children to Prosper, Not Just Survive, Immediately after Trauma,” presents a faith-primarily based technique to navigating childhood trauma. It is intended to provide steering to mothers and fathers, caregivers, and other older people close to the baby or young children who have experienced trauma.
“I’m a kid therapist,” she spelled out. “I’ve been counseling young children for 14 many years. And I have viewed a great deal of stuff, in my place of work.”
Neihardt life in Kalkaska, with her place of work in Traverse City.
“I felt compelled to share my expertise with many others that may by no means established foot in my business,” Neihardt said.
Above the pandemic, she begun crafting, given that she was trapped at household 24/7.
“I just began crafting books,” Neihardt explained. “I commenced self-publishing on Amazon, and I felt like I was not receiving the complete success that I wished, so I made a decision to go by a publisher.”
She selected Mission Point Press simply because they are community to Traverse Metropolis.
“I required to support nearby company, and I also wanted any individual that I could satisfy encounter to encounter, if I wanted to,” she pointed out. “They had been fantastic to function with. I would advocate them to any person.”
So much, she has created 10 publications and 3 lesson guides.
She counsels children from 3 yrs previous up to young grown ups.
“I’ve labored with homeless young ones, I have labored with children of abuse and divorce and domestic violence, and all those people issues,” she claimed. “I felt the want to share what I have realized about trauma with others in hopes that I can enable somebody else.”
Her e-book is religion-based mostly for a purpose.
“I incredibly much promote that healing that only will come from God,” Neihardt explained. “When it will come to trauma, God is the only one who can mend that … God is the best healer.”
She has dealt with young children and younger adults coping with grief as perfectly.
“I’ve worked with kids that have had a guardian pass away, or a shut grandparent pass absent,” Neihardt said. “Grief can get a lot of unique forms and arrive from several various factors. Divorce is deemed a grief process due to the fact it’s a significant reduction … foster treatment can be regarded as a loss for the reason that they’re being removed from what they considered was a regular home lifetime. It is very traumatic for kids when they are removed from their mom and dad into foster treatment.”
She mentioned much more and a lot more men and women have arrive forth needing mental wellness treatment in the previous two years.
“I have unquestionably observed a huge uptick in the need to have of psychological wellness companies,” she mentioned. “My caseload is about double to pretty much triple what it generally is. I have never experienced this lots of children on my caseload, ever.”
She noticed the need, and is hoping to assistance fill it with both equally counseling products and services and her new e book.
Appropriately, her stop by is also scheduled for the duration of May, which is National Psychological Wellness Awareness Thirty day period.
The ideal tips she has for mothers and fathers is to just hear to their little ones and aid validate their thoughts.