Good Inside — Dr. Becky Kennedy
Helpful for: connection, boundaries, shame-free parenting, and understanding behavior with more curiosity.
A compassionate framework for seeing the child underneath the behavior while still holding clear limits.
Growing minds. Big feelings. Support that meets them where they are. Kula Kids brings together child and teen therapy, emotional-wellness tools, parent support, groups, resources, and community experiences designed for young people and the adults who care for them.
Child and teen therapy in Decatur and Peachtree Corners, Georgia, with virtual care available across Georgia when clinically appropriate. We can help you find the right fit for your child's age, needs, and goals.
You do not need the perfect words or a diagnosis before reaching out. We help children, tweens, teens, and families make sense of what is happening and build support around what they need.
Overwhelm, meltdowns, frustration, shutdowns, emotional intensity, and learning what the body may be communicating.
School anxiety, separation, perfectionism, social worries, fears, rumination, and everyday stress that is getting hard to carry.
Attention, impulsivity, organization, motivation, emotional regulation, confidence, and understanding how their brain works.
Support after experiences that felt scary, confusing, painful, destabilizing, or overwhelming — at a pace that prioritizes safety.
Loss, divorce, moves, family changes, changing friendships, school transitions, and the endings and beginnings that come with growing up.
Self-esteem, belonging, friendships, boundaries, family relationships, identity, values, and finding a voice that feels like their own.
The goal stays the same — helping young people feel understood, supported, and more capable of navigating what is happening inside and around them. How we get there changes as they grow.
Play, movement, feelings language, caregiver partnership, predictability, and simple ways to build safety and regulation.
Emotional awareness, coping, confidence, friendships, school stress, body cues, and developmentally appropriate skill-building.
Changing relationships, boundaries, anxiety, self-talk, identity, school pressure, body changes, and increasing independence.
Autonomy, privacy, identity, values, relationships, overwhelm, coping, self-advocacy, and having a meaningful voice in care.
Age ranges and clinical fit vary by therapist and service. We’ll help match your family with the right clinician and level of support.
Children and adolescents communicate in different ways. Therapy can make room for words, play, creativity, movement, body awareness, relationships, and practical skills.
Art, drawing, storytelling, visual tools, and expressive activities when words are not enough.
Developmentally appropriate play and therapeutic activities that help children communicate and explore.
Grounding, breathing, movement, sensory awareness, and noticing what is happening in the body.
Conversation when talking feels useful — without expecting a child or teen to explain everything perfectly.
Learn about emotions, thoughts, patterns, nervous-system responses, needs, and the ways brains work differently.
Practice relationships, boundaries, communication, repair, asking for help, and feeling safer with trusted people.
You do not need to know the right diagnosis, therapist, or modality before you contact us. We can help you figure out the next step.
If you are wondering whether your child needs therapy, parent support, a group, a resource, or a different referral, we can help you think it through with you.
Schedule a discovery call and share what has been happening, what you are concerned about, and what you hope might feel different for your child or family.
We consider age, needs, personality, scheduling, location, clinician training, and availability rather than expecting you to choose from a list on your own.
Your therapist will help you and your child understand what to expect, identify goals together, and shape care around the young person in front of them.
Starting therapy can feel new — new places, new people, new routines, and sometimes some pretty big feelings. Kai is a familiar face children and teens can see across Kula Kids resources, activities, community experiences, and parts of the therapy journey.
Kai isn't the therapist. Your child's therapist is the real person who listens, builds a relationship, and helps make sense of what is happening. Kai is simply here to make some of the language, tools, and experiences feel more familiar along the way.
As kids grow, Kai grows too — so the tools can become more nuanced without asking older youth to engage with materials that feel too young for them.
Younger children may meet Kai through simple feelings language, breathing, movement, coloring, and play. Tweens and teens get more nuanced language around boundaries, identity, relationships, overwhelm, privacy, values, and self-advocacy.
Simple, concrete, playful, and easy to use with a trusted grown-up.
More autonomy, more nuance, and more room for a young person's own voice.
Simple skills can become easier to access when children see and practice them more than once — especially during calmer moments, not only when things are already hard.
Older youth deserve tools that respect their autonomy, complexity, privacy, and developmental stage.
More nuanced emotions, boundaries, self-talk, school and friendship stress, body-based regulation, and growing independence.
Expanded emotion language, autonomy, privacy, overwhelm, identity, relationships, values, and self-advocacy.
Kai grows visually and verbally so older youth are not asked to use tools that feel designed for little kids.
Your job is to be their grown-up. Our job is to help your family understand what is happening, build language and tools that fit real life, and create space for your child to have a therapeutic relationship of their own.
Caregiver involvement matters, and developmentally appropriate privacy matters too. We work to create a thoughtful balance: helping caregivers understand patterns, goals, safety needs, and useful ways to support a child at home while protecting the trust that allows therapy to work.
Parents can learn the same coping and nervous-system language their child practices without needing every private detail of a session.
Use resources during ordinary, calmer moments. Invite rather than force, offer choices, and model the skills yourself.
Children and teens can have an age-appropriate voice in their care — including questions, preferences, boundaries, and what helps them feel safe enough to participate.
These are thoughtful books and podcasts we often come back to when parents want more language, perspective, or support between sessions. This is curated guidance rather than a giant list — and more Kula Kids parent resources can grow here over time.
The Grown-Up Bookshelf
Helpful for: connection, boundaries, shame-free parenting, and understanding behavior with more curiosity.
A compassionate framework for seeing the child underneath the behavior while still holding clear limits.
Helpful for: communication, cooperation, conflict, problem-solving, and helping children feel heard without giving up boundaries.
Practical language and concrete strategies parents can use in everyday moments when they want to connect, set limits, and reduce unnecessary power struggles.
Helpful for: understanding development, emotional integration, and making sense of big feelings.
An accessible way to think about how children process emotion, connection, and stress as their brains are still developing.
Helpful for: power struggles, rigidity, frustration tolerance, ADHD, and lagging skills.
Especially helpful when a child's reactions are intense and parents need a more collaborative way to respond.
Helpful for: nervous-system awareness, regulation, and understanding behavior through a brain-body lens.
This one feels especially aligned with Kula because it connects behavior, physiology, co-regulation, and safety.
Helpful for: rethinking modern parenting norms, reducing power struggles, and inviting kids into family life.
We appreciate its emphasis on calm adult presence, cooperation, contribution, and autonomy — while encouraging families to read its cultural comparisons thoughtfully.
Helpful for: practical scripts, boundaries, connection, and everyday parenting dilemmas.
Warm, digestible, and easy to return to when you want support that is grounded yet compassionate.
Helpful for: mindful parenting, communication, self-regulation, and everyday family stress.
A good option for parents who want approachable tools and conversations they can apply in daily life.
Helpful for: younger children, respectful parenting, boundaries, and seeing behavior with greater steadiness.
Especially useful for parents of little ones who want a calm, respectful lens without a punitive tone.
Coming soon: Kula Kids articles, clinician favorites, and parent handouts organized by topic.
Shared for education and support. These resources are not a substitute for individualized mental-health care, and not every perspective will fit every family equally well.
These are a few of the questions parents and caregivers ask us most often before getting started.
Therapy may be worth exploring when emotions, behaviors, stress, relationships, school, sleep, grief, or life changes are making everyday life harder for your child or family. A child does not need to be in crisis or have a diagnosis first. A discovery call can help you think through what you are seeing and whether therapy, parent support, a group, another resource, or a different referral makes the most sense.
Kula Kids is designed for children, tweens, teens, and the caregivers supporting them. Exact age ranges and clinical fit vary by therapist, service, presenting concern, and developmental needs. We match families based on the individual child rather than age alone.
Our clinicians support young people with concerns such as anxiety, emotional regulation, ADHD and executive-functioning challenges, trauma, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, identity, relationships, family stress, and school-related concerns. Treatment is individualized, and not every clinician treats every concern.
Child and teen therapy is adapted to development, personality, goals, and what helps that young person engage. Depending on the clinician and treatment plan, sessions may include conversation, play, creative expression, movement, grounding, body awareness, psychoeducation, relationship work, and practical skills. Therapy is not a one-size-fits-all activity.
Caregiver involvement is tailored to the child's age, clinical needs, safety, treatment goals, and type of service. Caregivers may participate through intake, parent check-ins, collaborative goal-setting, family work, or home strategies while the child or teen also has developmentally appropriate therapeutic space of their own.
Teens generally need developmentally appropriate privacy for therapy to feel safe and useful, while caregivers still need enough information to support treatment and respond to safety concerns. Your therapist will explain expectations for confidentiality, caregiver communication, and the legal or ethical situations in which information may need to be shared.
Think support, not interrogation. Invite rather than force, use curiosity before correction, offer choices, practice tools during calmer moments, model regulation yourself, and bring recurring patterns or concerns back to the therapist rather than trying to interpret every response at home.
Yes. Kula Wellness Group offers in-person care from offices in Decatur and Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Clinician location, age ranges, specialties, and availability vary, so our team can help determine the best current fit.
Virtual therapy is available across Georgia when telehealth is clinically appropriate for the young person and the service being provided. Age, privacy at home, attention, safety, goals, and therapist fit can all affect whether virtual or in-person care is the better option.
Kai is Kula's educational character and continuity tool — not a therapist, treatment, diagnostic tool, or replacement for individualized care. Kai helps make emotional-wellness language, coping tools, and trauma-informed ideas feel more familiar across resources, therapy, and community experiences when appropriate.
Public Kai content is general education and should never identify a specific client. Secure clinical communication remains within Kula's approved systems. Design or AI-assisted workflows do not replace clinical judgment, and educational materials are reviewed before clinical or public use.
Start with a discovery call. Tell us what you are noticing and what your family is looking for; we will help you identify an appropriate next step and, when possible, a therapist or service that fits. Schedule a discovery call →
Clinically developed and reviewed by Kula Wellness Group's mental health professionals. Kula Kids educational content is designed to support — not replace — individualized assessment and treatment.
Last reviewed September 2026 · Meet the Kula team
Parenting was never meant to happen alone. MOMS Club® of Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake and Norcross is a local nonprofit community where mothers and families can build friendships, connect with other parents, and find community close to home.
Find local parent communityA young person may meet Kai long before they ever need therapy — through a school, community event, parent group, coloring page, workshop, or free online resource. Our goal is to make emotional wellness language feel more familiar and less intimidating.
Child-friendly activities, feelings tools, movement, and practical resources families can take home.
Developmentally appropriate emotional-wellness education, parent resources, and community learning.
Accessible resources and experiences that help normalize asking for help and learning emotional skills.
Short skills, feelings education, movement, mindfulness, and parent explanations.
Follow @kulakidswithkai →Shared spaces for skills, connection, psychoeducation, and experiences that extend beyond individual therapy.
Familiar language and visuals can help connect public education with a child's individual clinical experience when appropriate.
Practical, developmentally friendly tools families can use at home. No login and no cost — just print, explore, and use what fits your child.
A simple daily check-in for feelings, body sensations, and what your child needs right now.
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Name the feeling, pick a coping tool to try, and reflect on what helped and who can support you.
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A step-by-step worksheet to sort out worries, what's in your control, and who can help.
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A guided reset for tougher moments — feelings, body cues, support people, and one reminder to hold onto.
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You do not have to choose the perfect therapist, modality, or service on your own. A discovery call can help us understand what your family is looking for and identify the best next step.
Schedule a Discovery CallResearch supports trauma-informed principles such as safety, relationships, collaboration, voice, choice, caregiver partnership, and predictable supportive environments. Research does not establish Kai herself as an evidence-based treatment — Kai is Kula's implementation tool for making those principles more visible and developmentally accessible.