Through play, conversation, movement, children’s literature, and hands-on creative activities, children will learn new ways to express themselves, build coping skills, and strengthen social skills. Sometimes, we are working on global developmental, social, emotional, or behavioral goals and other times, more specific granular skills that can translate across settings.

Child sessions are appropriate for all kinds of children, whether or not they have a formal diagnosis.

Many children come into therapy with a multitude of helpful skills and high emotional intelligence, yet struggle with emotional dysregulation or consistent skills.

Many children also come to therapy that may have characteristics that align with an anxiety diagnosis, ODD, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, PDA, or depression. Some children come to therapy to practice social skills or navigating peer relationships, grief and loss, low self-esteem, perfectionism, life transitions like moving or welcoming a new sibling, trauma, frustration tolerance, a new or chronic medical diagnoses, or challenging behaviors. We believe therapy can be a good fit for all kinds of children with a wide range of needs.

All to say: children benefit from therapy for many different reasons!

Child Sessions almost always begin with a brief parent(s)-child-therapist check-in at the beginning of the session and include a debrief at the end of the session. We typically keep a 3:1 ratio of child sessions to parent sessions so that parents can engage in a more thorough session without the presence of their child.