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Brain Training for our Foster & Adoptive Kids to be Solution Seekers
April 16 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
FreeIt is common for foster and adoptive children to wrestle with emotional dysregulation and a sense of disconnection due to the way in which we were brought into the world, inconsistent caregiving, and our loss. I am a nature-based occupational therapist and am passionate about empowering my young clients to build awareness of their senses, bodies, and thoughts to help them build self-trust and resilience. As an adoptee, whole-body learning has also been a lifelong journey for me that I share with my clients and their families. Join us to learn strategies to help train your young person’s brain to become more confident solution seekers.
Mya Zavaleta feels incredibly fortunate to be able to combine her love for nature with her 20 years of clinical experience as a bilingual (Spanish) occupational therapist to create her own Nature OT practice that boosts kids’ physical and mental health. That means she skill-builds with toddlers to teens while exploring in nature with them on the Central Coast of CA. She supports neurodivergent kids (with ADHD, Autism, Sensory difficulties, anxiety, PTSD) and kids that have experienced trauma, fostership, and adoption. Mya believes in helping every child discover their own superpowers and feel more confident and grounded to live with greater joy and ease. Partnering with families to offer strategies and creative problem-solving solutions for their children is also essential to the deep impact she has with her young clients and families. When she’s not working, she loves to move – working out at bootcamp classes or getting outdoors walking with her sweet shih-tzu pup, her teen sons, husband, and friends along any body of water and among trees.
