Services
Individual Psychotherapy:
In therapy, I am a cognitive behavioral therapist. This means I believe one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors interact and are impacted by one another. I believe in teaching coping skills that children, and even some adults, may not have learned in trying to overcome life's struggles.
Child/Play Therapy:
I like to ensure that children have appropriate communication and social skills so they can better relate to their family, teachers, and friends. Helping combat negative thinking is also a focus of therapy in older children and teens. One means of achieving these goals with younger children who are typically less verbally articulate is through play therapy. Children are able to form safe, trusting relationships with me and work through a variety of issues symbolically through their play.
Adolescent therapy:
Even if not motivated, teens are more capable of utilizing traditional “talk therapy.” Again, I believe it is essential that your teen develop trust and rapport with me for therapy to be effective. As a result of that need and the reality that teens, as minors, have no legal rights to confidentiality, I work to balance your child’s need for a safe, private relationship with your need to know significant issues in your child's progress..
An essential part of psychotherapy with children and teens is parent consultation. After sufficient time developing a relationship with your child or teen, I will often meet with you.. The purpose of these meetings is to:
1) refine treatment goals
2) estimate the length/frequency of treatment
3) discuss other possible interventions that may be necessary
4) educate you more about your child's diagnosis
5) give ideas and resources on how to best help your child
Individual Psychotherapy:
In therapy, I am a cognitive behavioral therapist. This means I believe one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors interact and are impacted by one another. I believe in teaching coping skills that children, and even some adults, may not have learned in trying to overcome life's struggles.
Child/Play Therapy:
I like to ensure that children have appropriate communication and social skills so they can better relate to their family, teachers, and friends. Helping combat negative thinking is also a focus of therapy in older children and teens. One means of achieving these goals with younger children who are typically less verbally articulate is through play therapy. Children are able to form safe, trusting relationships with me and work through a variety of issues symbolically through their play.
Adolescent therapy:
Even if not motivated, teens are more capable of utilizing traditional “talk therapy.” Again, I believe it is essential that your teen develop trust and rapport with me for therapy to be effective. As a result of that need and the reality that teens, as minors, have no legal rights to confidentiality, I work to balance your child’s need for a safe, private relationship with your need to know significant issues in your child's progress..
An essential part of psychotherapy with children and teens is parent consultation. After sufficient time developing a relationship with your child or teen, I will often meet with you.. The purpose of these meetings is to:
1) refine treatment goals
2) estimate the length/frequency of treatment
3) discuss other possible interventions that may be necessary
4) educate you more about your child's diagnosis
5) give ideas and resources on how to best help your child