Mental Health

Attachment-Focused Therapy allows the family and the child to learn how to play, accept healthy nurturing and touch, how to repair and change maladaptive beliefs about the world and the adults who care for children in healthy families. The therapeutic relationship is with the entire family but most importantly, the parents. The child learns to trust his family, to connect with his parents and siblings, and to challenge his world beliefs.

Child Play Therapy is a way of being with children that honors their unique developmental level and looks for ways of helping in the “language” of children – play. Licensed mental health professionals therapeutically use play to help their clients, most often children ages three to 12 years, to better express themselves and resolve their problems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful patterns in cognitions. (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes), behaviors, and emotional regulation. It was originally designed to treat depression and is now used for a number of mental health conditions, for example, anxiety.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that uses eye movement or some type of bilateral stimulation to help people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from traumatic life experiences.

Infant Mental Health emphasizes the importance of supporting the parent-child relationship, understanding typical child development, and each child’s unique temperament, learning positive behavior support strategies; and working to reduce family stress in order to help promote children’s mental health.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) provides treatment for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders that places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship and changing parent-child interaction patterns. Children and their caregivers are seen together. The session is spent coaching caregivers in the application of specific therapy skills.

Sandplay is “hands on” psychological work, an adjunct to talk therapy. It is a therapeutic method that facilitates the psyche’s natural capacity for healing. In a “free and protected” space provided by a trained sandplay therapist, the client creates a concrete manifestation from his or her imagination using sand, water, and miniature objects.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy minimizes emphasis on past failings and problems and instead focuses on strengths and previous successes. There is a focus on working from your concern/situation and what you might want different.