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Introducing The LumiTot Approach
Do you feel lost, confused, worried, and stressed over how to best raise your child? Don’t know what to do about those tears and meltdowns? Do you worry about their emotional and physical health? Do you wonder if there is more you could do to ensure they can live their best life?
Parenting doesn’t have to be this hard! The LumiTot method revolutionizes the way you do parenting! By addressing the most important pillars of health, we help you create a sustainable lifestyle that optimizes your child’s brain health, giving you the confidence and the knowledge to provide the best foundation for your little one so that you can raise happy, healthy, and thriving children!
Where Parenting Meets Functional Medicine
There is so much more to raising physically and mentally strong children…
Learn about the eight pillars critical for your child’s optimal wellbeing
Social and Emotional Development
Relationships help build strong and healthy brains! Every single early experience matters, no matter how big or how small. Brain connections formed through the context of relationships affect the way we learn, think, how we manage our feelings, and define how we interact with others.
Intellectual Functioning and Learning
Getting ready for school begins in the womb! The human brain is growing before birth and into our mid to late 20s! But it is those first three years of life that can drastically shape our children’s brain development into their adult years, when the brain is most open to learning and enriching experiences.
Mindset and Spirituality
A belief is a thought you think over and over again. Our belief systems start forming from birth, and as adults, our mindset highly impacts the way we parent and the way we view the world. A strong foundation begins with a growth mindset for both the parent and the child.
Nutrition and Gut Health
Nutrition is an incredibly important component for building better brains! Without brain health geared nutrition, the gut and body are not able to produce the chemicals that make us feel good, help us cope with difficult situations, and support the brain to create an optimal learning environment. And without a healthy gut, our children can experience digestive issues, sleep disturbances, fatigue, allergies, rashes, behavioral and emotional difficulties, physical and emotional illness, and many other ailments!
Brain Development
During the first three years, a child’s brain is crafting more than a million neural connections every second. These remarkable beginnings shape the very foundation of a lifetime, influencing not only cognitive growth, but also the formation of habits, emotional regulation, and overall wellbeing. Unlocking the secrets of the developing brain is key to minimizing tears, tantrums, and meltdowns.
Environmental Factors
What happens around the body is important for brain functioning! From the colors used in a child’s bedroom to the time spent outdoors, environmental factors can have a strong impact on children’s emotions and their ability to regulate. Moreover, toxins such as mercury, mold, lead, pesticides, BPA’s and phthalates, among many others, can cause havoc to the brain, body, and gut microbiota. They are highly important to address to optimize brain health.
Exercise and Movement
Movement is essential to brain functioning for cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Movement also helps children regulate thus minimizing and preventing emotional breakdowns throughout the day. It improves sleep, the detoxification of the brain and body, stress reduction, and overall mood. Rhythmic movement is also highly important in learning!
Stress Reduction
From the moment of conception, stress can significantly impact brain health, leading to emotional and physical consequences. Stress comes from our thoughts and real life experiences, from the foods we eat, and from exposure to environmental toxins, thus it is critical to keep stress under control to optimize brain health and overall wellness.
Free Multidimensional Parenting Guide
Services Offered
All of our services incorporate our revolutionary LumiTot Method to optimize your child’s brain health and improve quality of life.
Brain Health Optimization Assessments
Our brain health optimization assessments are highly comprehensive and incorporate lab work that will help us take the guesswork out of your child’s difficult behaviors.
Lifestyle Blueprint Online Parenting Program
Our premiere ten week online program is designed to minimize difficult behaviors and optimize your child’s brain health so that your little one can thrive and reach his full potential well into adulthood!
Divorce Mediation Parenting Blueprint
We will peacefully help you formulate a parenting agreement that takes into consideration the critical needs of a child between the ages of zero to five.
Virtual Therapeutic Services
We provide psychological services from pregnancy through early childhood to address critical components impacting your child’s mental health.
Neuro-nutritional Analysis
Improve your child’s mood with food! Take control of your child’s emotional health through nutritional intake.
Speaking Engagements, Media, and Presentations
Dr. Molano is a dynamic, inspirational, and engaging speaker able to deliver exceptional value and expertise to your audience.
Grief and Loss Support
Caregivers and parents often struggle when having to inform children five and under of a loss in the family and how to handle that loss.
Infant Massage
Infant massage has been found to have many benefits for both the baby and the parent, including improved sleep, reduction of stress, decreased crying, enhanced brain development, and improvement in the parent child bond. Massage is easy, fun, and can be used throughout the developmental stages.
Infant Massage Workshop
This hands-on experience will not only enhance your bond with your child but also provide a platform to ask questions and gain valuable insights into the art of nurturing your little one through touch.
Services Offered
All of our services incorporate our revolutionary LumiTot Method to optimize your child’s brain health and improve quality of life.
Brain Health Optimization Assessments
Our brain health optimization assessments are highly comprehensive and incorporate lab work that will help us take the guesswork out of your child’s difficult behaviors
Lifestyle Blueprint Online Parenting Program
Our premiere ten week online program is designed to minimize difficult behaviors and optimize your child’s brain health so that your little one can thrive and reach his full potential well into adulthood!
Divorce Mediation Parenting Blueprint
We will peacefully help you formulate a parenting agreement that takes into consideration the critical needs of a child between the ages of zero to five
Virtual Therapeutic Services
We provide psychological services from pregnancy through early childhood to address critical components impacting your child’s mental health.
Neuro-nutritional Analysis
Improve your child’s mood with food! Take control of your child’s emotional health through nutritional intake.
Speaking Engagements, Media, and Presentations
Dr. Molano is a dynamic, inspirational, and engaging speaker able to deliver exceptional value and expertise to your audience.
Grief and Loss Support
Caregivers and parents often struggle when having to inform children five an under of a loss in the family and how to handle that loss.
Infant Massage
Infant massage has been found to have many benefits for both the baby and the parent, including improved sleep, reduction of stress, decreased crying, enhanced brain development, and improvement in the parent child bond. Massage is easy, fun, and can be used throughout the developmental stages.
Infant Massage Workshop
This hands-on experience will not only enhance your bond with your child but also provide a platform to ask questions and gain valuable insights into the art of nurturing your little one through touch.
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Meet The Founder
Dr. Karen Molano
Dr. Karen Molano is a bilingual clinical psychologist with over 18 years of experience working with children and their families. She helps first-time parents of children ages 0-5 to ensure their children thrive so they can reach their full potential well into adulthood.
After overcoming a myriad of severe health issues using alternative methods of healing, Dr. Molano became fascinated by the power of brain optimization to address physical and emotional health. As a result, she founded LumiTot, a comprehensive wellness organization dedicated to children five and under, which focuses on neuroscience-based parenting strategies and integrates them with functional medicine to optimize the brain.
She created the LumiTot Method, where she combines her expertise in child psychology, integrative mental health, neuro-nutrition, mindset and spirituality, and brain and gut health to bring a revolutionized approach to parenting that supports a child’s overall wellbeing. She provides parents with a customized lifestyle blueprint that targets the most critical and important years of their children’s lifespan: the first five years.
Dr. Molano obtained her Doctoral Degree from Pepperdine University. She completed the highly regarded Napa Infant, Family, and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist Fellowship Program through UC Davis. She is one of the few professionals endorsed as a provider for ages 0-5 by the State of California.
In addition, she has advanced training and expertise in the following areas:
- Integrative Mental Health
- Neuro-Nutrition and Gut Health
- Brain Optimization
- Trauma
- Divorce Mediation for parents of young children
Dr. Molano has helped thousands of children and their families over the span of her career.
“Children shine a light of hope on the world: they are illuminated, full of love, joy, and inspiration. Each of us holds the power to nurture and water the soil for the seeds they plant.”
– Dr. Karen Molano
Meet The Experts
Dr. Karen Molano
Founder | Psychologist
Dr. Valerie Kolone
Psychologist
Michael Valentine
Child Expert
Nikko Banquil
Administrative Assistant
Meet The Experts
Dr. Karen Molano
Founder | Psychologist
Michael Valentine
Young Ambassador
Nikko Banquil
Digital Solutions
Elizabeth Molano
Events and Outreach Manager
Testimonials
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