Build Resilience That Lasts a Lifetime
Is your child struggling with a specific challenge, or are you simply seeking proactive support for their overall well-being? I partner with parents like you, offering customized guidance and practical strategies through individual consultations, group workshops, and coaching programs.
In our sessions, you’ll learn about:
- Your child’s unique developmental needs
- Effective communication and connection strategies
- Building resilience and self-esteem in your child
- Setting healthy boundaries and limits
Individual Counseling
Individual counseling focused on what your child is needing the most
An empowering space designed to help your children learn about their unique strengths and talents, develop socio emotional skills, learn about the world of emotions and practice regulating them, learn about making positive choices, build trust in themselves and develop good connections using evidence-based approaches such as CBT and Kimochis.
Socio emotional skills encompass relationship skills, self management, confidence, social awareness, ability to manage emotions, conflict management, decision making, self regulation, stress management.
Counseling goals are set in collaboration with parents to help your child succeed in the different areas of their lives (school, home, friends)
Evaluations & School Consultations
- Assessments to Improve Academic Performance
- ADHD Evaluations
- Evaluation to understand your child’s temperament and how to support his or her academic performance accordingly
- “Shadowing” (observation and evaluation of your child’s actions on a school day with the purpose of providing ideas and adjustments for better attention and academic performance)
- Evaluation of clinical problems that may be impacting academic performance
- Teaching Your Kids Stress Management Tools
- Teach your children tools to help them focus better in school
ADHD for KIDS
ADHD can significantly impact a child’s life, leading to challenges in school, social situations, and at home. As a therapist specializing in ADHD, I can help your child develop essential coping skills, improve focus and attention, manage impulsivity, and build self-esteem.
Through a combination of therapy techniques, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, and parent coaching, we can work together to create a supportive environment that allows your child to thrive. I believe in empowering children to understand their ADHD and develop strategies for success in all areas of their lives.
PCIT 2 to 7 Years
PCIT offers parents in vivo training of specific strategies to promote the social-emotional development of their child as well as strategies to implement positive discipline at home.
In PCIT the therapist trains the parents through a one way mirror (with a special hearing aid) to master the most important parenting skills for children from 2 to 7 years old. PCIT offers the necessary tools, as well as training, to enhance parenting skills.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness practices such as HeartMath provide children with valuable tools to navigate the challenges of everyday life. By cultivating present-moment awareness and developing self-regulation skills, children can learn to manage emotions, reduce stress, and improve focus and attention. Through guided meditations, mindfulness games, and age-appropriate exercises, I help children develop a deeper understanding of their thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness can be a powerful tool for building resilience, fostering emotional intelligence, and creating a more peaceful and joyful inner experience for children of all ages.
When Bad Things Happen
The last thing we want children to experience is bullying, abuse, trauma, witnessing disturbing events, or losing a loved one.
Effects of the above can include: changes in eating habits, insomnia, irritability, sadness, isolation, anxiety, refusal to go to school, refusal to leave the home (among many others)
Research has shown that the brain has the capacity to recover from these experiences.
Different treatment modalities can offer healing. One of the most effective modalities is EMDR. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based treatment intervention that supports rapid relief of symptoms and helps children develop an empowered sense of self.
I am one of counted therapists that work with children/teens and trauma using EMDR. In addition to this modality, I am also certified in:
Kids Groups
Purpose of Groups:
- Help your children learn the following skills:
- Emotional regulation skills
- Friendship skills
- Communication skills: expressing needs, feelings and emotions with confidence; learning and practicing assertive language that supports children and teen in establishing healthy boundaries.
- Social skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- Anti-bullying
- Frustration tolerance skills
- Independence and Resilience skills
- Pro-social behavior skills
Group curriculum is focused on supporting the unique needs and challenges that come with each stage of development; as well as supporting children and adolescents in meeting socio-emotional milestones.
Specific groups for
- Preschoolers
- Elementary school kids
- Middle school kids
- Teenagers