Child therapy is specialized therapy that helps children and adolescents process emotions, navigate developmental challenges and learn how to build skills in coping skills and communicating with others. Supporting children in their natural language, play, is imperative during therapy. Child and adolescent therapy utilizes appraoches from several backgrounds such as DIR Floortime, play therapy and somatic techniques to meet them where their ability and capacity is, acknowleding that everyone has unique and individual differences.

CPP is a therapy for young children up to age 5 and their parents/caregivers. The therapy supports family strengths and relationships. It helps families heal and grow after stressful experiences.

CPP may help when children have been through scary or painful events such as loss of a loved person, separation, serious medical procedures, abuse, or violence at home or in the community. CPP can support when family members have physical health or mental health difficulties. CPP may also help when children show difficult behaviors or caregivers would like help with parenting and improving parent-child relaitonships.

Theraplay is a structured, relationship-focused dyadic therapy (involving a child and caregiver) designed to support relationships (attachment), self-esteem and trust through playful, physical and interactive games and activities.

Feeling stuck doesn’t mean you’re failing. Even the most devoted parents begin to question their instincts when faced with constant anxiety, emotional outbursts, or repetitive family conflicts. Our work together isn’t about finding blame or highlighting mistakes. It is about understanding the root of what is happening beneath the surface, allowing you to move away from overwhelming reactions and toward intentional, peaceful responses.

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a powerful listening therapy designed to help regulate the nervous system, so you can better connect with yourself, others and the world around you.

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What is SSP?

Reflective supervision is a type of supervision which offers a unique place to support reflective practices and encourages self-awareness to help individuals understand how their own responses can impact the work and exploring the process of parallel-process of relationship-based work.

If you are an in-training therapist looking for a supervisor for licensure, please feel free to reach out!

COMING SOON: reflective practice groups for providers of all backgrounds working with children!

Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) can be requested on an individual basis using the certified therapy dogs that I own (Andy and Rhea). AAT supports physical, emotional and cognitive functioning. AAT is different that Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) as it will incorporate the dogs into the treatment plan versus including them on a session by session basis.