Services

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My approach to therapy is best described as relationally-based, emotion-focused and client-centered.  I work from a family systems and attachment-based perspective using child-centered play therapy and directive play therapy techniques. As a play therapist, I believe that playfulness and creativity are important components in client’s growth and healing along with incorporating psychoeducation about the brain and the body into my work with children, teens and families.

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What is Play Therapy?

“Unlike adults, whose natural medium of communication is verbalization, the natural medium of communication for children is play and activity.”   G.Landreth

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Children are not cognitively capable of engaging verbally with adults in a manner required by traditional psychotherapy. Play is a child's natural language and provides a therapeutic approach that is child-centered, evidence-based, and very effective for dealing with:

Trauma & Transitions

Neurodiversity supports

Cognitive struggles

Social Emotional struggles

Anxiety & Worries

Life Changes & Events

Depression & Behavioral outbursts

Many more