Dr. Elena Merenda provides Reiki healing for both adults and children.

Reiki is a form of alternative therapy commonly referred to as energy healing, where the energy flows from the practitioners’ palms to the client.

Reiki has many benefits for adults, children, and teens including:

🐞relieves anxiety
🐞reduces pain
🐞improves behaviour
🐞enhances focus
🐞improves sleep
🐞encourages the body to self-heal
🐞removes energy blocks
🐞clears chakras

At Children’s Healing Studio, Ltd. we provide one-on-one family coaching that aims to help parents better understand child development and form healthy relationships with their children.

Family coaching is useful for any parent who is seeking support to navigate their child’s mental health and developmental needs. Sessions are offered in-Studio, online, or in the family home. During a session, Dr. Elena Merenda provides education on child development and she offers strategies and support that fosters communication and coping skills.

Dr. Merenda works with families as a team to develop mutually agreed upon goals. Typically, the larger goal is to re-establish positive family relationships, which is achieved through the application of smaller goals like improving communication, providing education on child development, improving parenting strategies, fostering parenting confidence, and developing solution-focused thinking.

Family coaching can help with a multitude of issues including (but not limited to):

Transitions (marriage, death, adoption, etc.) or familial changes
Death and loss
General behavioral issues
Learning disabilities
Autism spectrum disorders
Suicidal ideation, attempt, or mental health concerns
Eating disorders
Trauma
Facilitating difficult conversations with your child
New parents
Screen time issues

The Play to Heal Program is a play-based program designed to support children’s social and emotional development. The goal is to support children in identifying emotions, communicating how they feel, and learn to regulate their emotions and behaviour. This is a personalized program, offering 1-1 support to children and families. This program is offered for children 2- 16 years old.

The objectives of the Play to Heal Program are:

🐞to help children understand the loss or change they are experiencing and how to journey through the grief process (death, divorce, new baby, move to a new home/school)
🐞to help children develop skills for emotional recognition, emotional expression and coping strategies for managing difficult life transitions/events
🐞to help children develop strategies for self-regulation in order to change difficult behaviours such as tantrums, aggression, and defiance
🐞to help children to develop coping strategies when a child or family member is diagnosed with a terminal illness

The Play to Grow program is a play-based program designed to support children with special needs. Depending on the diagnosis and the severity of the disability, children with special needs often require extra supports in all areas of their development including social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and language development. The goal of the Play to Grow program is to establish a set of goals with the child’s parents to provide extra learning through play; learning that amplifies the child’s strengths and enhances the areas that require some TLC. Play to Grow sessions are developed based on each child’s needs and abilities.

Some objectives of the Play to Grow sessions may be:
🐞 to help children build self-help skills so that they can be independent during transitions
🐞 to help children learn interpersonal communication skills like active listening and responding in conversation to support their social development
🐞to help children build emotional expression and self-regulation skills and tools
🐞to help children build confidence and understanding of their own development and needs, to be able to advocate for themselves

At Children’s Healing Studio, Ltd. we provide one-on-one teen coaching that aims to foster meaningful conversations with teens about what’s important to them. Teen coaching helps teens to improve their interpersonal skills, self-awareness, self-esteem, problem-solving skills, and decision-making abilities. Sessions are offered in-Studio, online, or in the family home.
During a session, Dr. Elena Merenda takes the teen’s lead, actively listening to what supports they require, and working together to develop goals. Dr. Merenda offers strategies and support that fosters communication, coping skills, confidence, and decision making.

Dr. Merenda works with teens as a team to develop mutually agreed upon goals. Typically, the larger goal is to understand themselves, build autonomy, and navigate their dynamic world , which is achieved through the application of smaller goals like improving communication, providing suggestions and guidance in meeting their needs, improving problem solving strategies, fostering confidence, and developing solution-focused thinking.
Teen coaching can help with a multitude of issues including (but not limited to):
Confidence building
Time management skills
Coping strategies for stress
Navigation peer relationships
Developing problem-solving skills
Social media awareness and balance
Body image
Healthy eating and movement
Mindfulness

Dr. Elena Merenda is a Certified Death Doula and a Certified Grief to Gratitude Coach. She provides 1-1 grief coaching to adults who experience loss through death. This is an 8 week coaching service that creates emotional transformation for the client. The coaching includes defining goals for moving forward; open dialogue about difficult emotions and how to sit in those emotions; guided reflection for moving forward and continuing your loved one's legacy; reiki healing for physical, emotional, and spiritual growth; guided meditations that encourage gratitude, healing, and transformation.

Dr. Elena Merenda uses art, mindfulness, and journaling as healing modalities to meet your goals.

A PLR helps to clear the emotional residue, clarify the mental frame and understand the karmic causative actions and intentions. In PLR we often work with emotion and thought, by breaking the bond that is now out-dated, and based on events in the past that are over. So we clean up those residues, and I help you to return clean and clear into the present life. The outcome of a PLR with Dr. Elena Merenda is to move forward with more emotional peace, mental clarity and to ground to in this current life.

A lymphatic drainage massage is a specialized technique aimed at promoting lymphatic drainage and reducing excess fluid retention in the body. It is done through a gentle, rhythmic movement that help stimulate the lymphatic system. This massage has the potential to improve the appearance of cellulite, contour the body, and support overall detoxification.

A Lymphatic Massage has the following benefits
Reduces stress, depression and fatigue
Helps fight infection
Improves digestion, boosts weight loss and enhances the immune system
Reduces skin swelling, bloating and water retention
Aids in healing of scar tissue
Improves cellulite and stretch marks
Increases blood flow
Stimulates collagen and tights skin
Releases waste and toxins
Promotes detoxification

Dr. Elena Merenda offers Inner Child Healing Coaching which is a powerful process of raising your awareness on how your experiences as a child impact your adult life. Along with activities and experiences that heal you from your past in order to empower you through your present and future.

As your coach, Dr. Elena Merenda will create a safe and supportive environment in which you can fully explore all aspects of your memories as a child and the feelings or experiences associated with them, leading to new awareness and deep insights about yourself. I work intuitively and energetically to help you see unconscious patterns, beliefs and behaviours which may be limiting you in your present day.
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Dr. Elena Merenda uses art, mindfulness, and journaling as healing modalities to meet your goals in healing your inner child, recognizing harmful patterns impacting you today, and moving forward with a healthy heart and mind.

Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing, yoga therapy is the specific application of yoga tools—postures/exercises, breathwork, meditation techniques, and more—to address an individual’s physical, mental, and emotional needs. A general public yoga class can certainly ease everyday aches, pains, and mood complaints. But a yoga therapy session goes much further because it is tailored to the individual.
Yoga therapists have in-depth training to help them assess and keep clients safe. I will work with you to address your specific goals while considering any limitations you might be experiencing. Yoga therapy is the specific use of tools by a trained practitioner and can support a variety of needs including (but not limited to):
Chronic pain, including low-back pain, arthritis, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), endometriosis, sciatica and more
Mental health, including concerns like anxiety, depression, insomnia, and others
Support for illnesses and conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, bladder control, to name a few
Overall well-being and healthy aging - you don’t need to be sick or in pain for yoga therapy to have value. Many people seek yoga therapy as a way of helping them manage or decrease stress.