Treatment for Children, Teens, and Adults
Individual Therapy
I provide individual therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Therapy is tailored to the person rather than expecting them to fit a particular approach. Depending on your needs, sessions may include conversation, skill-building, problem-solving, creative or interactive activities, trauma-focused work, and opportunities to better understand the patterns affecting your daily life.
Areas I commonly address include:
- Trauma and difficult life experiences
- Anxiety and depression
- Autism and ADHD
- Emotional regulation
- Attachment and relationship difficulties
- Grief and loss
- Self-esteem and identity
- School-related concerns and school avoidance
- Behavioral challenges
- Difficulty identifying or communicating thoughts, feelings, and needs
Treatment Specialties
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
- Habit Reversal Training (HRT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Attachment-based
- Clinical Supervision
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
- Reality Therapy/Choice Theory
- Strength Based/Short Term Treatment
- Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
- Positive Psychology
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)
Children & Teens
Children and teens don't always communicate distress through words. Sometimes it shows up as anger, withdrawal, avoidance, anxiety, shutting down, refusing school, arguing, or behavior that seems difficult to understand.
I work with young people to build trust, understand what may be driving their reactions, develop ways to communicate their needs, and strengthen emotional awareness and regulation.
When appropriate, I also involve caregivers in treatment to help them better understand their child's needs, recognize patterns, improve communication, and develop practical strategies for use outside the therapy room.
Trauma Therapy & EMDR
Past experiences can continue to influence how we see ourselves, relate to others, respond to stress, and experience safety long after the event itself has ended.
Trauma therapy can help you better understand these connections and develop healthier ways of responding in the present. When appropriate, I may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based psychotherapy designed to help people process distressing experiences and reduce the impact those experiences continue to have on their lives.
EMDR is not appropriate for every person or every situation. We will determine together which approaches best fit your needs, goals, and readiness.
Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy
I work with children, teens, and adults who present with symptoms of autism and ADHD. I have particular expertise with individuals identified later in life who have spent years feeling misunderstood and underdiagnosed.
Therapy is not about making someone appear more “typical.” Instead, we may work on understanding individual strengths and challenges, emotional regulation, executive functioning, relationships, communication, self-advocacy, identity, and finding strategies that actually work for the person's brain and life.
For children and teens, this may also include helping caregivers understand the difference between a child who won't do something and a child who is overwhelmed, dysregulated, unsure how to begin, or lacks the necessary skills to complete the task.
Caregiver & Family Sessions
Therapy does not always need to involve only the individual client. At times, it may be helpful to meet with parents, caregivers, or other family members—with or without the client present—as part of the client's ongoing treatment. These sessions may focus on understanding behavior and emotional needs, improving communication, recognizing family or relationship patterns, problem-solving current concerns, and helping caregivers better support the client's treatment goals.
When these sessions are clinically appropriate and part of the client's treatment, they may be billable to the client's health insurance. Coverage varies by insurance plan and circumstances.
Professional Consultations
I also provide professional consultation when collaboration beyond the therapy room would be helpful. Consultation is different from an individual, caregiver, or family therapy session. It typically involves communication and collaboration with other professionals or systems involved in a person's care, education, or support.
Consultation may include collaboration with schools, mental health or medical providers, agencies, or other professionals; reviewing concerns from multiple perspectives; helping others better understand a client's needs; and developing strategies for supporting the individual across settings.
Professional consultation is not psychotherapy and is generally provided as a private-pay service.
Clinical Supervision
I provide clinical supervision and professional consultation to social workers and other mental health professionals seeking support with their clinical work and professional development.
Supervision may include case conceptualization, clinical decision-making, therapeutic relationships, boundaries, ethics, documentation, professional development, and developing greater confidence and intentionality as a clinician.
For professionals pursuing supervision toward licensure, we can discuss your specific requirements to determine whether the supervision I provide meets the applicable licensing requirements.
Not Sure Where You Fit?
You don't need to know which type of therapy you need before reaching out. If something is getting in the way of your—or your child's—ability to feel, function, connect, or move forward, we can start by talking about what's happening and determine together whether my services may be a good fit.