Therapy with younger children (3+): I provide a safe, nurturing space for children to develop skills for identifying, expressing, and managing big emotions.  When working with younger children, parents play a very important role. Often, a combination of family therapy sessions with and without child is recommended, to provide space for parents to learn and practice skills and strategies to use with their young child.

Therapy with older children and teens: With these clients, I often find the focus to be on helping them build self-esteem, develop frustration tolerance skills, effective communication skills, sharpen decision-making skills, and process stressors. Parents play an important role in their older child and teen’s lives; I encourage parents to model the skills, strategies, and traits they wish to see in their child or teen.  I often encourage family sessions, either with or without client present, to help parents learn how to better help their child.

Parent-only therapy: Parenting can be both the greatest and the most challenging experience; I love helping parents navigate this to feel more competent and capable of supporting and caring for their unique child while also helping them grow into healthy and independent young people.

Please note that while I provide therapy services to children and families with a wide variety of needs, I do not provide parent mediation services and do not take part in the creation of parenting plans. I do not make or inform custody arrangements.