My Beautiful Boy

It has been a month or so now since Corey started seeing Julie a child therapist.  She is really good with him and has probably got the best relationship with him than we’ve had with previous psychologists and psychiatrists.  Corey is at least attending the sessions and talking to her – more than he did with the others.

Although we haven’t had any changes in Corey’s behaviour yet, she is delving into his thoughts and trying to see how he thinks, which no-one has ever done before.

She uses techniques like having lots of toy animals on a table and asking him to choose one animal for each person close to him.  Then asking him questions and to arrange the animals in order to answer her questions.

She also had one session where she had him drawing angry faces and happy faces etc, on a whiteboard, and he relates to doing these things really well.  No-one else ever did this sort of therapy, they only ever asked him questions or asked me questions, but didn’t really try to relate to him on this other level.

Although we still don’t have a diagnosis of anything, and it doesn’t look like we will, at least he is getting some help.

I don’t think Julie believes he has anything like ODD or Aspergers or anything at all, she believes something in his past, some traumatic event or perhaps a few events, have led to his behaviour and because it wasn’t dealt with it has been kept in and increasingly gotten worse.

I’m not sure if I agree with this 100% as I do feel that there is something else there causing his behavior, but I guess it is possible so we’ll keep going down this road and see how we go.  At least it’s the most help we have ever received for him so if it can help him then we’ll keep going.

He has another session this coming Friday so I’ll let you know how he goes.