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Pathways to Success

Together we will determine which therapeutic approaches will achieve the best fit for success based on presenting concerns, age, and developmental level.

  • Anxiety, Attachment, Adjustment issues
  • ADHD, Behavior Problems
  • Depression, Mood, Grief & Loss
  • Trauma
  • Self-esteem, Self-Confidence, Social difficulties
  • Parenting, Divorce
  • Anger, Emotion regulation

Children 0-10

In children, the most powerful learning and healing experiences are often through play! Play is the natural language of children. While adults find relief in talking over their difficulties with an understanding therapist, children often cannot express their thoughts and feelings in words and may represent how they feel through acting out behaviors. When children have the opportunity to show how they feel and what they’re experiencing through toys, they often feel better because their feelings have been released. You have probably felt something similar when you have been upset or anxious and confided in someone who cares about you. Play therapy is like that for children. I am trained in practices supported by research to help young children with a variety of symptoms. We will work together to support the processing of experiences and emotions to build coping strategies.

Improve feelings identification, expression and coping
Develop problem solving skills and improve behavior
Increase social skills and improve relationships
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Adolescents 11-17

Creative arts and expressive therapy approaches can be used effectively and therapeutically with all ages. Whether through Art, Sandtray, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR or other evidence-based methods, I emphasize a strengths-based and solution focused approach to addressing your adolescent’s concerns. We will develop a plan tailored to their needs to improve resilience, expression of thoughts and feelings, and address behavior to improve overall wellness.

Build self-esteem and self-confidence
Learn to navigate social relationships and situations
Improve coping strategies for emotions and behaviors
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Parents & Adults

Parenting through various ages and stages of a child’s life has its regular challenges…and great rewards. Whether you’re looking to simply add more tools to your toolbelt, understand a stage of development, or are at a loss for strategies to address a particular new emotion or behavior because it feels like nothing is working, there is support here for you. I view parents as the expert in their own children. It is a privilege to work alongside parents, emphasizing strengths to help effect positive change in your family’s lives.

Gain more parenting tools for your toolbox
Learn how to tailor parenting strategies to your child
Improve family functioning and relationships
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Play Therapy

Individual Child Centered

  • Children learn how to express thoughts & feelings in constructive ways, control behavior, make decisions, and accept responsibility
  • Therapist is alert to possible links between child’s play and emotional and behavioral conflicts
  • Involves regular 1:1 Parent Consultations to review progress, parenting, and collaborate on goals

Filial Therapy

Family Play Therapy

  • Emphasizes the parent-child relationship as means of alleviating child/family difficulties and prevent problems
  • With therapist’s guidance and skill building, parents take active role in sessions and conduct play times
  • Capitalizes on importance of parents to children in order to bring about constructive and lasting change

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

  • Helps clients process and heal from difficult past or present experiences
  • Involves focusing on a difficult experience while engaging in bilateral stimulation, e.g, eye movements, tapping, auditory tones
  • Therapist guides client through series of steps to desensitize the memory, install positive beliefs, & strengthen coping mechanisms

Child-Parent Psychotherapy

Family, play based, ages 0-5

  • Children who have experienced traumatic events, are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems
  • Based in attachment theory; integrates psychodynamic, developmental, trauma, social learning & cognitive behavioral theories
  • Goal to support, strengthen the
    caregiver-child relationship as a vehicle for restoring and protecting the child’s mental health.

Incredible Years

Child Social-Emotional & Parenting Programs

  • Dinosaur-themed materials and life-size puppets to engage children and strengthen social, emotional, and academic skills
  • Small groups for children ages 4-8 years to improve emotion identification, expression and coping, anger management, problem solving, and social skills
  • Parenting program addressing topics like effective limit setting, use of praise, tangible rewards, natural & logical consequences, time out

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Short term and goal oriented

  • SFBT is a therapeutic approach focusing on helping clients identify and build upon their strengths and resources to create positive change rather than dwelling on past or the problem itself.
  • Emphasizes solutions and the future
  • Defines specific goals and creates strategies to achieve them
  • Enacting change in the present with emphasis on what is changeable and possible; homework activities

Sand Tray Therapy

An Expressive Therapy

  • Children/Teens place miniature figurines in small sandbox to express confusing feelings, inner experiences
  • Creates a visual representation of the psyche’s contents and reveals unconscious concerns that are inaccessible other ways
  • The scene created acts as a reflection of the person’s own life and allows him or her the opportunity to resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and gain acceptance of self

CBT & TF-CBT

Cognitive Behavioral & Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Helps manage various mental health conditions and current problems by identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors.
  • Develops coping strategies and solutions to specific challenges and practice new skills and strategies in therapy and in real-life situations
  • TF-CBT is a specific type of CBT tailored for addressing unique needs of individuals (ages 3-18) who’ve experienced trauma, as well as their non-offending caregivers

HeartMath

A form of Biofeedback

  • Utilizes heart rate variability data to provide real-time feedback using a sensor/device and the computer
  • Learn to manage stress response and improve emotional regulation
  • Techniques aim to shift the nervous system and hormonal system to achieve a state of physiological coherence, where the heart, brain, and emotions are aligned
  • Improve self-awareness, mental clarity and focus, as well as performance and resilience

Play Therapy

Individual Child Centered

  • Children learn how to express thoughts & feelings in constructive ways, control behavior, make decisions, and accept responsibility
  • Therapist is alert to possible links between child’s play and emotional and behavioral conflicts
  • Involves regular 1:1 Parent Consultations to review progress, parenting, and collaborate on goals

Filial Therapy

Famiy Play Therapy

  • Emphasizes the parent-child relationship as means of alleviating child/family difficulties and prevent problems
  • With therapist’s guidance and skill building, parents take active role in sessions and conduct play times
  • Capitalizes on importance of parents to children in order to bring about constructive and lasting change

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

  • Helps clients process and heal from difficult past or present experiences
  • Involves focusing on a difficult experience while engaging in bilateral stimulation, e.g, eye movements, tapping, auditory tones
  • Therapist guides client through series of steps to desensitize the memory, install positive beliefs, & strengthen client’s coping mechanisms

Child-Parent Psychotherapy

Family, play based, ages 0-5

  • Children who have experienced traumatic events, are experiencing mental health, attachment, and/or behavioral problems
  • Based in attachment theory; integrates psychodynamic, developmental, trauma, social learning & cognitive behavioral theories
  • Goal to support, strengthen the
    caregiver-child relationship as a vehicle for restoring and protecting the child’s mental health.

Incredible Years

Child Social-Emotional & Parenting Programs

  • Dinosaur-themed materials and life-size puppets to engage children and strengthen social, emotional, and academic skills
  • Small groups for children ages 4-8 years to improve emotion identification, expression and coping, anger management, problem solving, and social skills
  • Parenting program addressing topics like effective limit setting, use of praise, tangible rewards, natural & logical consequences, time out

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Short term and goal oriented

  • SFBT is a therapeutic approach focusing on helping clients identify and build upon their strengths and resources to create positive change rather than dwelling on past or the problem itself.
  • Emphasizes solutions and the future
  • Defines specific goals and creates strategies to achieve them
  • Enacting change in the present with emphasis on what is changeable and possible; homework activities
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