Parenting can sometimes feel chaotic. But if you learn how to navigate through the chaos, raising children can bring you a lot of joy. This podcast is dedicated to helping you develop the necessary skills to handle those difficult moments so that you can rediscover the joy in parenting. Your hosts are Joanna von Staden, LCMHCA, and Jonathan DeVore, LCMHCA. Joanna and Jonathan are neighbors, they both have their own families, and they are both professional counselors in the greater Charlotte area in North Carolina. As counselors, they work with many families and often get asked a lot of questions by parents and caretakers about how to best help their children with challenging behaviors and big emotions. Joanna and Jonathan thought, "You know what, let’s start a podcast where we share insights we’ve gained both as parents and as counselors so that parents can use the same skills we use as counselors in their own homes!" While this podcast will NOT help you become a licensed therapist, you will learn many counseling skills and tools that translate nicely to the home so you can better respond and help your child in those challenging moments, decreasing your stress and improving your child's problem behavior and big emotions.