Child Therapy
Family Therapy
Child Therapy
Child therapists take a strength-based, developmental approach toward wholeness rather than a view of disability or dysfunction. Current research in neuroscience and attachment theory indicate that there is brain neuroplasticity and that a relationship with a trained psychotherapist can help to remove emotional and cognitive roadblocks, provide individuals with a secure attachment, and restructure neural networks to transform the whole person’s inner, emotional life and cognitive functioning. Through a relationship with a skilled clinician, a child can access the deep wounds that develop after a stressor or trauma, help a child express their fears and conflicts in their inner world and integrate that with their more behavioral, relational outer world. Child therapists also collaborate closely with their primary caregivers to encourage strong, connected relationships.
Play Therapy
“Play therapy is to children what counseling is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children’s natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys instead of words.” - Garry Landreth, Ph.D.
Grief + Loss
ADHD
Anxiety or Depression
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Selective Mutism
Anger + Tantrums
Social Anxiety
Emotional or Acting out
Problems with Peers
Trauma related to abuse, natural disasters, divorce
Family Therapy
Family conflicts often take a life of their own. Using a systemic approach, often powerful dynamics that are hard to break can challenge the equilibrium in the family. Family therapy can help break dysfunctional patterns, improve communication, and strengthen family relationships. Whether it is parent-child conflict, sibling rivalry, intergenerational trauma, a skilled clinician will help family members express themselves, while encouraging shifts in the status quo to develop greater capacity for empathy, understanding and relational healing.
Intensive Family Therapy
Having trouble getting the whole family together only to have the session end too quickly? Intensive treatment is available with an extended treatment session to facilitate deeper exploration of family dynamics and change. Family intensives can be scheduled for 1.5-2 hours