Our Services
We often help children learn to be flexible and we strive to model that ourselves. These services are guidelines for how we think about therapy and every single family will have a unique journey. We recommend that all services begin with parent sessions.
Some families desire parent sessions so that they can gain clarity, understanding, confidence, and have the full support needed to help their child, or children, thrive. We offer these sessions in-person or virtually and we call these types of sessions Parent Insight Sessions and you can read more in-depth about them here.
We also use Parent Sessions to begin child or family therapy. When the goal is to engage a child or family unit in therapy, we always begin with a comprehensive parent-only session where we will use a variety of assessments and tools to help us uncover priority issues and navigate how to move forward together.
When children are being seen for therapy, we like to have a parent session periodically (about 1 parent session to every 3 child sessions), this helps us ensure we are continually monitoring progress and adjusting as needed.
You can take comfort in knowing that we will use assessment tools, goal setting, feedback, and actionable steps in all of our sessions to ensure that every session feels practical, valuable, and time-efficient.
Parent sessions
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 or their family is curious about one.
Many children who come to therapy may have characteristics that align with an anxiety diagnosis, ODD, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, or depression. Some children come to therapy for support for practicing 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.
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 periodically.
Virtual child support is available, but we don’t just make in-persons sessions virtual, we have a similar but different approach altogether that gives virtual therapy its own set of benefits. Read more about virtual child sessions here.
Child sessions
family sessions
Family sessions are designed for parents who want to learn alongside their child(ren), for when the opportunity to use the evidence-based practices of role playing and modeling presents itself, or for families who want to divide a single session.
Family sessions may also be appropriate for siblings to engage in therapy together.
Sometimes, young children may feel most comfortable when their parent(s) stay in the session with them. We are always happy for parents to stay with their child during the session and we will decide together what parent engagement looks like as we go.
We always help families understand their options we make choices about what sessions look like together as a team.
nutrition support
Feeding a family is rarely a relaxing or simple part of life, but it can be fun, engaging, and meaningful. It can also be tedious, mundane, stressful, exhausting, and difficult.
Nutrition services are intended to provide support for families who are struggling to feed their family for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, foods have become a power struggle and suddenly parents are short order cooks and trying to avoid meltdowns when the bananas are too mushy or pasta is too sticky. Other times, serious allergies or medical conditions have created stress and limitations for food options. Some children struggle with selective eating, poor appetite or atypical hunger signals, food aversions, or emotional responses to food.
Nutrition support is meant to lower the stress, provide education, and offer practical solutions when social, emotional, and mental health intersects with food and mealtimes.
nutrition for youth athletes
This service gives youth athletes an opportunity to learn how to fuel appropriately for sport, and a busy life. Families will learn how to structure meals and snacks that provide essential nutrients and energy for any activity your family engages in. Youth athletes will be able to ask questions and learn about their physical needs in an empowering and developmentally appropriate manner.
Furthermore, families can gain practical information for busy nights and weekends, fueling on the go, and sleeping well at night.
This is a hands-on service in your own home that can:
engage the whole family in preparing nutritious snacks and meals
a pantry and fridge overhaul
an educational grocery trip
recipe demos and hands-on cooking skills for little ones
engaging and developmentally appropriate lessons on nutrient requirements and fueling for health and activity