CHILD, FAMILY, PLAY THERAPY

We are here to support you and your child/children. Our team of skilled child and adolescent therapists draw from a variety of experiences and modalities, from play to creative arts to somatic interventions. We aim to create a safe and supportive therapeutic environment cultivated specifically for your child’s unique history, challenges, needs, and preferences. We provide care for a variety of mental health conditions, developmental differences, and trauma, as well as support the development of self-regulation skills, emotional awareness, distress tolerance, healthy relational behaviors, and build resiliency. We view caregivers and parents as experts of their children and prioritize the caregiver bond as essential to the child’s treatment process. 

WHAT IS PLAY THERAPY?

Play is the language of childhood. Through play, children develop their capacity to interact in their environment and construct cognitive, motor, speech, language, and social-emotional skills (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007). We frequently utilize play therapy with children 10 and under in order to engage them in their “primary language.” Our play therapists are trained to attune carefully to the communication that your child is expressing through their play and utilize skillful reflection to enhance emotional identification and expression, cultivate problem solving skills, improve communication capacity, diminish difficult behaviors and feelings, and process and integrate traumatic experiences.

Play therapy training for our clinicians: 

  • Bi-weekly group supervisions specifically tailored to strengthen comprehensive assessment skills  and case conceptualization

  • Develop increased competency in intervening with a variety of challenges such as developmental differences, neurodiversity, anxiety, depression, and trauma 

  • Support skill and awareness in parent-child relational dynamics, and engage parents and caregivers in the treatment process 

  • Opportunity to complete a fully funded 150 hour certification in Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) model with neurorelational emphasis 

SERVICES

  • Child psychotherapy, ages 0-12

  • Adolescent psychotherapy, ages 13-17

  • Family psychotherapy

  • Play therapy