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Developmental Assessments

Screening for developmental delays, identifying areas needing focused treatment, determining the need for additional supportive services, referrals to community services

Play Therapy

Play is how children communicate and process stress and trauma. Play therapy allows young children a safe space to express their feelings, fears, and needs through symbolic experiential interactions without judgment or redirection.

Individual Therapy

Treatment for children, adolescents, adults struggling with bullying, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and other mood/anxiety disorders

Dyadic Therapy

This treatment provides an opportunity to observe and assess parent/caregiver-child relationship. Dyadic therapy addresses specific needs within a relationship that can be managed in the moment. Support is provided to parent/caregiver in order to better understand the needs of the child and strengthen the attachment, bonding and social-emotional connection within the relationship.

Family Therapy

Parents and children work in order to improve the family dynamics through increasing effective communication, identifying specific areas of conflict and developing patterns of healthy behaviors that can be built upon within the family unit.

Co-Parenting

Divorced or separated parents work together to create consistent environments for children. Co-parenting is not martial counseling but rather to build an understanding between two parents of how to provide supportive and enriching settings for children, who may be experiencing conflict due to recent changes within the family structure.

Parenting Support

Counseling for parents struggling with postpartum depression, adjustment with a new baby, parents who have recently adopted, or parents needing help with discipline that work. Limits for children provides clear expectation that intern provide security and safety for the child.

Trauma-Focused Treatment

Children and adults who have suffered a traumatic event. Posttraumatic stress in children can look like many other things including aggression, inattentive behavior, withdrawn from social interactions/friends, delays in previously achieved milestones. With the proper identification of PTSD, the most effective treatment can begin to allow children to process their feelings surrounding their experience and begin to develop trusting relationships again.
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