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A New Logo


During 2013 DeYoung Consulting is celebrating 10 years of serving children and families. That past ten years has been an exciting journey and we are looking ahead to greater things in the next ten years. As a part of out ten year celebration we have created a new logo. With the help of Glint Advertising they helped us develop a fresh and new logo as well as a new tag line. The new logo is at the top of this blog. It is representative of our work with families, providing in-home therapy services, and the core tenets of attachment theory that guides our work with families. 

Our new tag, "Safe, Stable, Successful Familes" illustrates the attachment concepts. 

1. Safety (physical and emotional) is a requirement for healthy human development. We want to help develop homes where relationships (parenting, marriage, extended family, etc) are safe and family members intentionally nurture healthy connections.  Children exposed to violent and chaotic environments are at high risk for poor developmental outcomes. Attachment theory proposes that when we feel threatened we seek out safety with stable secure supports (parent or spouse). When our supports provide empathy and protection we are able to take risks and grow. One of the ways in the past ten years we have met this need is to help abused and neglected children in the foster system by providing counsel to maximize the security in their new safe foster family. 

2. Stability - We believe people grow the best when there is emotional and relational predictability. One finding of attachment research is that children flourish in environments where their caregivers behave in predictable ways. They can anticipate when a parent is going to comfort them or discipline them. Without this predictability the child remains on tense edge, anticipating the worst. The best ways to provide this predictability are for the family to have structure with structures and have consistent rituals.  

3. We believe that successful families benefit most when they have a well defined purpose and direction. We work with our families in the therapeutic process to clearly define goals and outcomes that will indicate successful progress and growth. Where do you anticipate your family to be in 2 years, 5 years, or even 20 years from now? How do you see life with your spouse when the children are not home? 

We have enjoyed and been blessed by the past 10 years and we look forward to many more.
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