Your path to parenting your sensitive child with confidence.
Because YOU are the most important support your child can have.
Parent coaching for families who want to support their child’s emotional needs with CONFIDENCE.
Understand your Child’s brain. Understand your brain! When we understand the brain, all behavior makes sense!
Implement brain based strategies to connect to your child and reduce difficult behaviors with REAL LIFE support.
Create a home filled with emotional safety that builds confident parents and resilient kids.
The pressures of attending to your highly sensitive child’s needs can sometimes feel impossible.
Emotional outbursts… sensory overload… and unpredictable reactions can turn daily routines into exhausting battles, leaving you questioning yourself.
Connected First exists to help parents transform challenges into opportunities for growth and connection.
As a licensed therapist and experienced parent coach, Laura provides you with the tools, strategies, and support you need to confidently navigate the journey of raising a highly sensitive child.
Our resources, from simple printables to in depth courses, are designed to help you decode your child's behaviors, build emotional resilience, and foster a deep, nurturing bond.
Join our community and start your journey towards more confident, compassionate parenting. Together, we can create a harmonious and supportive environment where both you and your child can thrive.
Welcome to a space where connection comes first — for your child, and for YOU!
Laura Van Camp, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Registered Play Therapist Supervisor TM
Parent Educator and Coach
Hi! I’m Laura. Mom, wife, therapist, and parent coach.
I’m so glad you are here!
I started Connected First after 14 years as a child and family therapist. The work I was doing with children was so beautiful, so inspiring, and I loved supporting them in their journey out of difficulty and into healing.
But I only saw the kids one hour per week.
At most, we had 4 hours per month to get things changed.
It JUST WASN’T ENOUGH.
I wanted to create an immersive experience that could impart all of the brain science and tools that parents need to understand, but also in a way that they could easily access and process.
As a mom, I know how overwhelmed we feel as parents, trying to help our kids have the best life imaginable. So my goal is to share everything I know as a play therapist, and apply it in real time in a simple way, all throughout the week.
So, Connected First was born. Here you can get everything you need to know to Emotion Coach your Highly Sensitive child, and the support you need to actually implement it.
I’m not an unreachable instagram influencer. I am here to work through the issues alongside you. I am a real person, with a brick and mortar business, who is super passionate about helping your family.
Our Services
Circle of Security
8 week evidence-based parenting program
-Understand your child's emotional needs
-Understand your triggers
-Respond with Confidence
-Build emotional resilience.
Safe and Sound Protocol
Nervous System Reset
-Therapeutic listening intervention designed to regulate the nervous system through specifically filtered music.
-Beneficial for: sensory sensitivities, anxiety, trauma, and difficulties with emotional self-regulation.
Parent Coaching
Transform your parenting from the inside out with these offerings:
1:1 Parent Coaching
Hybrid courses/group coaching sessions
Facebook Support Group
