How We Help

Psycho-educational, psycho-diagnostic testing for children and adults including intelligence, achievement, personality, attention, executive functioning, and sensory processing.

Adolescence is a time of increased stress for both children and their parents. We can help in navigating the many challenges adolescence brings including relational and/or mental health issues.

We provide skills training and coaching for parents dealing with frequently encountered challenges that often result from parent-child conflict.

We aim to help clients cope with grief and mourning following death or loss, or with major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (e.g., divorce). Grief and depression go hand-in-hand, with depression being considered a normal part of the grief process. Lingering depression, however, can greatly impact functioning and deepen without treatment. We are well-equipped to provide treatment for depression and anxiety.

We aim to help clients cope with grief and mourning following death or loss, or with major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (e.g., divorce). Grief and depression go hand-in-hand, with depression being considered a normal part of the grief process. Lingering depression, however, can greatly impact functioning and deepen without treatment. We are well-equipped to provide treatment for depression and anxiety. – Our goals with couples are: to increase respect, affection, and closeness, break through and resolve conflict when they feel stuck, generate greater understanding between partners and keep conflict discussions productive. – Family based therapy utilizing the Maudsley method, an intensive outpatient treatment where parents play an active and positive role in order to: Help restore their child’s weight to normal levels expected given their adolescent’s age and height; hand the control over eating back to the adolescent, and; encourage normal adolescent development through an in-depth discussion of these crucial developmental issues as they pertain to their child. – One of the best treatments for ADD/ADHD is The Barkley Model. This specific treatment focuses on helping individuals apply the knowledge they already have at the appropriate times, rather than on teaching specific knowledge and skills. The methods of behavior modification are particularly well suited to achieving these ends. Many techniques exist within this form of treatment that can be applied to those with children and adults with EF deficits.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a psychosocial treatment model designed to treat posttraumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. Initially developed to address the psychological trauma associated with child sexual abuse, the model has been adapted for use with children who have a wide array of traumatic experiences, including domestic violence, traumatic loss, and the multiple psychological traumas experienced by some children.

Eye Movement Desensitization and ReprocessinChild-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an intervention model for children aged 0-5. The treatment is based in attachment theory but also integrates psychodynamic, developmental, trauma, social learning, and cognitive behavioral theories. Therapeutic sessions include the child and parent or primary caregiver. The primary goal of CPP is to support and strengthen the relationship between a child and his or her caregiver as a vehicle for restoring the child’s cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning.g (EMDR) is a one-on-one form of psychotherapy that is designed to reduce trauma-related stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to improve overall mental health functioning.

One of the reasons family therapy can be difficult is that families often appear as collections of individuals who affect each other in powerful but unpredictable ways. Structural family therapy offers a framework that brings order and meaning to those transactions. The main goal in family therapy is to alter any dysfunctional patterns of interaction in order to encourage growth in individuals, subsystems, and the family as a whole. It increases productive communication along with support within the family as well as the individual responsibility and self-reliance of the family members and the subsystems.

Our goals with couples are: to increase respect, affection, and closeness, break through and resolve conflict when they feel stuck, generate greater understanding between partners and keep conflict discussions productive.

Art therapy facilitated by the art therapist, use art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a one-on-one form of psychotherapy that is designed to reduce trauma-related stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to improve overall mental health functioning.

A traumatic event can involve a single experience or an enduring or repeating event or events that completely overwhelm an individual’s ability to cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved with that experience. The sense of being overwhelmed can be delayed by weeks, years or even decades. Often trauma victims subconsciously organize much of their lives around repetitive patterns of reliving and warding off traumatic memories, reminders, and affects.