Welcome to my online campfire family – where we workshop parenting together.

Hi I’m Alexis, a mom, play therapist, family coach, and clinical counselor.

If the challenging teen years are just around the corner – then now is a precious opportunity to connect through the power of play.

I personally run interactive ‘PlayLab’ programs and free online workshops for parents and their tweens. That’s because doing playful activities now will make you both stronger – so you can face whatever life throws at you next – together.

– Alexis Greeves MA, LPCC, Family Coach, Play Therapist

Welcome to my online campfire family – where we workshop parenting together.

Hi I’m Alexis, a mom, play therapist, family coach, and clinical counselor.

If the challenging teen years are just around the corner – then now is a precious opportunity to connect through the power of play.

I personally run interactive ‘PlayLab’ programs and free online workshops for parents and their tweens. That’s because doing playful activities now will make you both stronger – so you can face whatever life throws at you next – together.

– Alexis Greeves MA, LPCC, Family Coach, Play Therapist

Boosting Wellbeing - Building Resilience

Every family is unique so cookie cutter solutions don’t work.

It all starts with presence and relationships. And having a backpack of skills for when the road gets tough.

I’m inviting you to let me be your guide and mentor so I don’t need to be your therapist. Numbers are strictly limited and professional standards of confidentiality and creative play apply.

I work with families of all ages, but the best group to gather around the campfire is parents with their tweens. Working together can be such a delight.

Mother giving her daughter a piggyback

Going from ‘Mama’ to ‘Bruh’

Mother and daughter chatting

Connecting with your tween is lots of fun. Let me show you a way to use play therapy techniques with your tween to build relationships rather than competition. There is a way to turn preparing for the teenage years into fun and ‘play’.

Let’s maximize the experience of going from ‘Mama’ to ‘Bruh’.

The tween years are that precious sweet spot in between the sandbox and the therapist’s couch. It’s the opportunity for you to learn together to communicate and relate positively before social media and your children’s peers start making you doubt your experience and wisdom.

Mean Girls Are Targeting your Tween

No matter how well-balanced and popular your tween, they will need to find a way to handle their own Mid-School Crisis. Issues such as body image, identity, mean girls, social media’s unrealistic expectations and the increasing need for their own money are just around the corner…

Yes they will turn to you for money – but how do you still have a say in the rest?

How can you give them the resourcefulness to manage anxiety and make wise, brave choices to help them flourish?

Mean girls bullying a child

Free Resources and
Fun Online Programs

The steps you take now can ensure that long after they have gone from under your roof, they will still know they can always return to the campfire of your home for warmth, welcome and wisdom.

Alexis - Professional Therapist, Mom and Citizen of the World

As a mother of two girls in an interracial family and someone who has lived in several countries, I have a special understanding of cross-cultural needs and challenges. I have an in-depth appreciation of Deaf culture, an overly-optimistic view of camping and a great understanding of the power of all gathering together people of all ages to learn from each other.

Oh, and I was once an awkward middle-schooler too  🙂

I was once an awkward middle-schooler too
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What families say about Alexis...

...we just needed to learn a different way...
“My first child became a teenager and would call me whenever she was in trouble - we workshopped everything together. But every time I tried to help my second child, she ended up in tears. Alexis helped me see there was nothing wrong with either of us – we just needed to learn a different way to connect.”
Talking is fun again
“Every time my mom tried to help me, I felt like she was trying to fix me. Until she spent some time with Alexis. Now she just isn’t as judgy. Talking is fun again.”
...she's a mom too...
“Alexis is an informative, hands on, practical, experiential teacher and easy to relate to because she’s a mom too.”
...insight, kindness and a glorious sense of fun
I didn’t want to parent on 'auto-pilot' doing whatever my mom did. I wanted to learn how to understand what’s going on in my children’s minds and work with them for a brighter future. Alexis helped me to do that with insight, kindness and a glorious sense of fun.

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