Child/Teen Psychotherapy

Finding a therapist for your child to connect with can be hard and challenging. Working with children is a totally different approach than working with adults. Our primary focus is helping your child feel safe and comfortable in sessions  so they can be themselves. We use a variety of different play therapy and person-centered techniques catered to each individual child and family. 

Play based therapy techniques allow for a child to express their feelings without always needing to know how to talk about them. Children learn to express their feelings through observing their parents/caregivers, being with peers, and through the responses adults provide back to them after a feeling as been expressed. Children have big feelings often, and need support in learning what those feelings are as well as how to handle them. Through play-based therapy techniques , a clinician can understand how your child expresses their needs, what their needs might be,  and how they learn to solve their needs. From this, the clinician can support parents and caregivers in better understanding their child's actions and behaviors as well as how to support them safely through their big feelings, teaching them tools and strategies for growth and progress.

 Our child psychotherapy services also require a commitment from parents/caregivers to attend parent support sessions. In these sessions, the clinician and parent will work together to create a collaborative approach that best suits the needs of each individual child and family.