After completing our comprehensive assessment and co-creating a plan with parents, we begin treatment. We use a range of treatment strategies and techniques tailored to your child and family.
Parent guidance
Gain insight and understanding about your child’s specific challenges and strengths
Learn concrete parenting strategies that leverage your child’s strengths and address your child’s specific behavioral, emotional, or developmental challenges
Develop and implement a plan for how to address your child’s needs at home and optimize his learning experience at school (also see below)
Resolve co-parenting differences
Effectively model and facilitate healthy emotion regulation skills
Improve parent-child interactions and relationships
Develop effective discipline and behavior management techniques
Address and reduce parental stress
Retrofit daily activities and routines that better suit your child & family
Apply “collaborative problem solving” approaches with your child
Referral to and coordination of additional services, including psychological testing, medication evaluation, speech and occupational therapy, and child-care & school staff (see below)
Child therapy
Individual play therapy to support children’s functioning, explore underlying causes of stress, and acquire more effective coping strategies
Cognitive-behavioral techniques (CBT) to reduce anxiety & stress, increase self-calming skills, and mastery of challenging situations
Emotion regulation and emotional intelligence strategies to improve recognition and communication of feeling states; improve self awareness; increase self regulation skills for body, thinking & emotions; and improve empathy
Trauma interventions to reduce reactivity, fear, and dysregulation associated with experiencing traumatic events
Processing of and support for events that evoke grief & loss, including parental or sibling death; moving; loss of a pet; change in school setting
Selective mutism interventions for children not talking to peers or staff in child-care or school settings
Social skills training to develop turn-taking, collaboration, & peer play abilities
Family therapy
Parent coaching during parent-child sessions to learn new parenting skills, improve relationships, & manage your child’s behavior and emotions more effectively and calmly, e.g., discipline, set limits, transition more smoothly, respect boundaries, & engage in activities
Improve communication strategies with your child
Sibling sessions to address conflicts & improve relationships
Foster imaginative, symbolic and creative play experiences with your child
School & child-care interventions
Collaborate with your child’s teacher or child-care provider to improve your child’s daily experience
Facilitate school team meetings to promote understanding of your child’s social-emotional strengths and challenges and implement best practices for your child’s challenges
On-site observations of your child & consultations with staff
Development of and hands-on support with school staff in implementing specific behavior strategies for your child
In-class interventions with your child to promote acquisition of self regulation, play or social skills
Assist in finding the ideal child-care or school setting for your child
Advocate for your child to receive optimal special education services, e.g., 504 plan or Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
