When parenting children exhibiting challenging behaviors, not all hope is lost just because sometimes you are. Let me help.
Helping Parents and Kids
Helping kids feel safe, learn how to connect to themselves and the world in a healthy way while teaching parents how to co-regulate with their child is the cornerstone of my practice as a therapist. I use play therapy and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, sandtray therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy modalities in my work with clients.
With You Every Step of the Way
Play therapy helps children:
Become more responsible for behaviors and develop more successful strategies.
Develop new and creative solutions to problems.
Develop respect and acceptance of self and others.
Learn to experience and express emotion.
Cultivate empathy and respect for thoughts and feelings of others.
Learn new social skills and relational skills with family.
Develop self-efficacy and thus a better assuredness about their abilities.
Play therapy has proven equally effective across age, gender, and presenting problem.
I'm With You For The Journey!
Look, you don't know what you don't know! Parents often seek assistance after years of struggling, using parenting methods that are ineffective, sometimes having read books, watched videos, etc. I customize a plan for you and your child and teach skills specific to your needs,
Primary areas of focus include ADHD, Autism, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Childhood Trauma.
Parenting children who have experienced trauma (neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse) and prenatal drug/alcohol exposure (OR BOTH) can be particularly challenging. They require different approaches than parenting kiddos who have not experienced adverse childhood experiences. They have difficulty forming healthy attachment because their experiences have distorted and continue to interfere with their sense of safety at the neurobiological level. Therapy can help parents learn what this means and how to offer cues of felt safety when their child is struggling.
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