A mental health therapist is responding to the trauma many children and adults are experiencing in the wake of the West Palm Beach murder of beloved Port St. Lucie teacher and mother Jamie Felix. Police say Jamie Felix, 45, was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Ray. Felix outside a motel in West Palm Beach on Friday. Investigators said the shooting happened in front of the boy's sons, ages 17 and 10. “This is a family that is going to be hurt and a child that is going to be affected for the rest of their lives.” said Mike Jackles, public information officer for the West Palm Beach Police Department. Lucie Public Schools has confirmed grief counselors will be coming to Manatee Kindergarten through 8th grade academy, and friends of Jamie Felix say she will be attending 8th grade math when classes resume Monday. It is said that he was teaching. “Don't feel like you need to do that, because you don't know how it's going to show up for you,'' says Ezusa Allen, a mental health therapist with social age counseling in Palm Beach County. talk. Allen says talk therapy can help children deal with grief and trauma, she said. There are several ways to murder Jamie Felix, including understanding the emotion of grief and learning how to process it by knowing all its stages. Grief affects people in different ways, and people can go through different stages at different times in their lives, she says. ” Talk therapy is very effective, like when you get everything out of your system. It's like the first step to understanding what you're feeling and why you're feeling it. The next goal is to help develop coping strategies. “Just knowing how to deal with these emotions, feelings, and behaviors when they come up again will help you deal with them better in the future,” Allen said. Ta. She recommends the work to students and staff at Manatee Academy, and while grief counselors are trying to heal, two children who witnessed their mother being killed by their father need therapy immediately. There's no question that people need support, preferably a strong support system, she says. “Grief is always present,” Allen said. “That trauma will always be with them, but now they're learning how to deal with what they've faced and how to live the rest of their lives.” STAY LATEST: WPBF 25 Get the latest headlines and weather updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.
A mental health therapist is responding to the trauma many children and adults are experiencing in the wake of the West Palm Beach murder of beloved Port St. Lucie teacher and mother Jamie Felix.
Jamie Felix, 45, was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Ray Felix, outside a West Palm Beach motel on Friday, police said. Investigators say the shooting happened in front of the boy's 17-year-old and 10-year-old sons.
“The family is going to be hurt by this and the kids are going to be affected by this for the rest of their lives,” said West Palm Beach Police Department spokesman Mike Jackles.
St. Lucie Public Schools announced that grief counselors will be coming to Manatee Preschool, where Jamie Felix's friend taught Manatee kindergarten through eighth grade.th-Math will be graded when classes resume on Monday.
“In my opinion, you should talk to a grief counselor even if you don't think you need to, because you never know how it's going to show up for you,” she says. said Ezusa Allen, a mental health therapist at Age Counseling. Palm Beach County.
Allen said talk therapy can help children dealing with the grief and trauma of Jamie Felix's murder in a number of ways, including learning all the stages of grief. This includes learning how to understand and process emotions.
She says grief affects people in different ways and people can go through different stages at different times in their lives.
“Talk therapy is very effective. Once you get everything out of your system, it's like the first step to understanding what you're feeling and why you're feeling it. And then the next step. The goal is to help them do that.'' Developing coping skills will help you know how to deal with these emotions, feelings, and behaviors when they come back, and help you deal with them better in the future. “It will be,” Allen said.
She encouraged students and staff at Manatee Academy to work with grief counselors to heal, while also encouraging two children who witnessed their mother being killed by their father to seek therapy immediately. He said there was no question that they needed, preferably a strong support system.
“With grief, it’s always going to be there,” Allen said. “That trauma will always be with them, but now they're learning how to deal with what they've faced and how to live the rest of their lives.”
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