Individual Therapy for Children

Is this the kid you know and love?

Now, your child seems to overreact to everything.

Something has changed. If only you knew how your child felt – but you don’t.

As you look at the current situation, you wonder, “Why are they always so angry? Why are they not listening to me and seem so distracted?”

Maintaining a healthy and positive relationship with your child(ren) feels impossible, especially if they won’t talk to you.

Help is not easy to find.

Talking with other family members or their teachers hasn’t helped. And talking with your child indeed hasn’t helped either.

Sometimes, you can only think of saying, ”Dry it up.”

At the same time, it sometimes feels easier to give them the tablet and the rewards they were screaming about in the first place.

You ask yourself: “Is there something wrong with my kid? Have I failed as a parent? I have tried everything?”

Finding answers is where I come into the picture.

I work with children between the ages of 5 and 17 who have trouble expressing emotions and regulating their behaviors.

For children, it can be challenging to understand the full spectrum of emotions. Children tend to identify four emotions – MAD, GLAD, SAD, and BAD.

But there is so much more under the surface. Not knowing what’s below the surface is why we often see big behaviors that do not always match up with what seems to be happening.

Responses may seem out of sync, like the time you told your child to brush their teeth, and they exploded in a scream while clenching their fists. Or when you asked a simple question about if they took the trash out and watched them lie. It was a simple question!

Let’s work to find that kid you know so well.

Together, we will work on regulating and identifying emotions and learning coping skills that your child can apply to distressing situations.

With therapeutic games, art, and talk therapy, your child will begin to name their feelings, improve their communication skills, and use the coping strategies learned to deal appropriately with the situation at hand.

Give your kid the relief they need and deserve and permit yourself to ask for help.

Parenting is hard, and being a child is hard.

We can’t do it alone, which is okay. It takes courage and strength to reach out. I am so glad you did.