Behavior as communication
Every lesson starts with the same question: what is this kid actually asking for? Once you can answer that, the plan almost writes itself.
Cheyenne Lofthouse-Wolf, LCSW
The person behind every script and every plan at HQ. Trained for it, tested by real life, and allergic to lectures.
Director of Parent IntelligenceI haven’t just studied hard behaviors. I’ve sat in the room with them.
Over a decade in mental and behavioral health — group homes for probation and foster teen boys, crisis classrooms, therapy for foster youth, and running a county-contracted behavioral health program. The LCSW is the paperwork. The real credential is knowing what to do when a kid is melting down, shutting down, or acting out in ways that scare the whole room.
At HQ I teach parents that same stuff, just for a living room instead of a clinic. You bring the house you actually live in. I bring the plan.
Where you’ll find me
Teaching philosophy
Every lesson starts with the same question: what is this kid actually asking for? Once you can answer that, the plan almost writes itself.
No seventeen-step systems. Scripts and moves you can actually run while holding a toddler and a lukewarm coffee.
Hitting, screaming, running, shutting down. The stuff people whisper about. We say it out loud and then we work on it.
One-to-one coaching happens through the Behavior Bureau. The group hangout lives in the Parent Lounge. Both start the same way: you tell me what’s going on at home.