Child & Adolescent Therapy (Ages 5-12)
Young children are full of big emotions. Sometime they need a little help understanding their emotions and then learning what to do with them. I work with children of all ages in my practice and I help them with problems of all sorts. Just as in any type of therapy it’s important to find a therapist who connects with your child and who you also trust. I want to learn as much as I can from you about your child before we meet and then I’ll need a few sessions to get to know your child and form my own impressions about what’s going on and how to be most helpful.
Here are some of the issues I commonly treat in children:
- Anxiety – generalized anxiety (i.e. worried about all sorts of things), specific fears
- Depression
- Trauma
- Family Problems
- Loss
- Emotion Regulation difficulties (i.e. strong feelings that the child has difficulty modulating)
I use a variety of different approaches in my work with children including the following:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment Based Therapy