Expert in neurodiversity Dr. Billy on emotional regulation

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We welcome Dr. Billy Garvey to this episode of My New Life. He runs a clinic in Melbourne, Australia, that helps parents focus on their children’s strengths, and move through some of their challenges.

The clinic has a 3-year waitlist and after listening to this episode, you’ll understand why: Dr. Billy is really good at helping caregivers and children connect in those moments when stronger limits are needed. He works with a lot of neurodiverse children, and brings that adaptive lens to our conversation. Dr. Billy is @drbillygarvey and has his own podcast, Pop Culture Parenting.

Takeaways:

When your child is elevated — hitting or lashing out — it’s not the time to build skills. Our role in that moment is to show them they are safe. Rather than instructing them to “settle down,” take that moment to be a calming presence for your child.
You might be thinking: I can’t believe that set them off! But Dr. Billy reminds us that the same sensitivity that feeds the emotional dysregulation also makes them really receptive to positive feedback — so focus on their strengths and harnessing those. Look for opportunities to praise them when they are interacting positively with a sibling or doing what they’ve been asked.
Struggling to get out the door in the morning? See if you can chunk the larger request into smaller ones. For example, start with a specific 2-step direction (put on your socks and shoes) and, once that is mastered, you can move onto more steps.
If your child is repeating a behavior that you’d like to see less of, be sure to give them an alternative rather than simply asking them to stop. If the behavior involves another child, create some distance, whenever possible. They need time to cool off.

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0:00.0	Welcome to My New Life, a Love Every podcast.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Jessica Rolf.
0:13.5	We talk a lot about connected parenting at Love Every.
0:16.7	Australian experts are ahead of the curve when it comes to building strong parent-child
0:21.3	relationships. In this mini-series, I'll speak with Australian parent educators, psychologists,
0:27.9	and pediatricians about setting, loving limits. Our guest today is Dr. Billy Garvey. He runs a clinic
0:37.1	in Melbourne that helps parents focus on their
0:39.4	children's strengths and move through some of their challenges. The clinic has a three-year waitlist,
0:45.5	and after listening to this episode, you will understand why. Dr. Billy is really good at helping
0:51.3	caregivers and children connect in those moments when stronger limits
0:55.6	are really needed. He works with a lot of neurodiverse children and brings that adaptive lens to
1:00.7	a conversation. Welcome, Dr. Billy. Hi, Jess. Thanks for having me. Can you give me some of the
1:07.3	scenarios of the parents that you've worked with. What are their life
1:11.5	situations? How are they recognizing that they need help, that they could use your support
1:15.6	in a different approach? Yeah, I think some of the biggest things they come with are just how
1:21.4	stress they are. So we know that a very high percentage across communities all around the world
1:27.3	are experiencing daily
1:28.4	stress in their parenting, finding that there's challenging behaviours, they feel lost
1:33.5	in how to guide kids around their emotions.
1:36.5	We see a lot of children who, you know, are really struggling so much that they're unable to
1:41.9	attend daycare or childcare and early education
1:46.1	environments because of the emotional difficulties they're having and the conflict that they
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