Pathways to Success
Together we will determine which therapeutic approaches will achieve the best fit for the success of your child and family 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
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 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 experiences 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