Welcome to Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC
Experienced Developmental Support for Your Child
At Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC, we pride ourselves on our 17 years of experience as a licensed pediatric occupational therapist. Our expertise spans clinical, educational, and recreational settings, ensuring your child receives the highest quality of care tailored to their unique needs. Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC exists to bring families hope and healing through home and community based coaching and consulting to help children with unique minds thrive in their everyday lives.
Our Story
At Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC, we have been providing occupational therapy services to the community for over 17 years. Our founder, Nicole Kristal, M.S, OT/L, saw a need for high-quality, personalized in-home occupational therapy services and started Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC. We believe in empowering children and young adults of all abilities and their families with the tools and knowledge to help children reach their full potential. Our mission is to provide personalized, family-centered care that supports the unique needs of each child. We aim to offer your family hope and healing in areas where children may be struggling in their development. If your child is struggling with activities of daily living (feeding, dressing, bathing, sleep routines), social skill development, sensory processing, or emotional regulation skills, Hopeful Hearts Consulting can help!
Nicole Kristal comes from San Jose, California. She received her masters in Occupational Therapy from San Jose State University in 2007. From the age of 17 years old, Nicole has been working with children with unique minds and knew early in her life that her calling was to serve children and families who needed support. She has experience working in sensory integration clinics, schools, and even in camp settings. She has years of experience working with children with autism, ADD/ADHD, sensory processing disorders, general motor delays, as well as other developmental delays. Nicole uses a developmental, child centered approach to build skills that children and their caregivers need to be successful in their daily lives. As an occupational therapist and coach, Nicole believes that the best thing about her work is getting a chance to celebrate the large and small victories that her clients’ experience each day! In her free time, Nicole performs in an improvisational comedy group in Raleigh. She enjoys camping, dancing, live music, and hiking.
Our Approach
We take a holistic, bottom-up, and neurodevelopmental approach to occupational therapy, addressing the physical, emotional, and social needs of our clients. Our goal is to help our clients achieve their goals and maximize their potential, while also promoting overall health and wellness. We believe in equipping caregivers with the tools t
We take a holistic, bottom-up, and neurodevelopmental approach to occupational therapy, addressing the physical, emotional, and social needs of our clients. Our goal is to help our clients achieve their goals and maximize their potential, while also promoting overall health and wellness. We believe in equipping caregivers with the tools they need to help their children be successful in their everyday lives.
Our Services
Parent Coaching for Positive Behavior Change
Behavior simply refers to the way one acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others. All behavior is communication. When a child (or an adult) acts out, it is simply because they don't know how to communicate their need for help any other way. Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC provides practical caregiver coaching to teach caregivers how to respond to challenging behaviors... SO THAT children build the skills they need, which reduces the reliance on unhelpful behaviors.
Social Coaching for Adolescents and Young Adults
Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can provide individual coaching to teens and young adults to help support the development of higher level social skills such as conversational skills, learning how to make and keep friends, learning appropriate electronic communication skills, planning social get togethers, and more! Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can even provide dating skills coaching to young adults wanting to pursue love!
Home Based Systems for Executive Functioning Skills
Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can provide practical strategies in your home to support the development of executive functioning skills, including: organizational skills, time management, planning and prioritizing, and sustained attention skills. Coaching is also provided to caregivers to support their own executive functioning skills as they learn to better support their children.
Sensory Integration Support
Sensory integration is the process by which we interpret and organize sensory information from the body and the environment. Simply put, this means how we experience, interpret and react to (or ignore) information coming from our senses. Sensory integration is important for many aspects of daily life, such as getting dressed, eating, physical mobility, socializing, learning, and working. Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can provide sensory integration support for individuals and their families.
Emotional Regulation Support
Emotional regulation is the ability to exert control over one's own emotional state. When our brains become overwhelmed by an experience, our brain loses it's ability to regulate our emotions. Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can help create tools to support the development of emotional coping skills, which will help you and your child manage daily experiences with ease.
Activities of Daily Living Support
Activities of daily living (ADLs) are the basic self-care tasks that people perform every day to stay healthy and safe. These include: feeding, toileting, hygiene and grooming, and dressing. Hopeful Hearts Consulting, LLC can help children and young adults to determine supportive strategies to remove barriers and make daily tasks easier to achieve.
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