Services

Play Therapy

Children use play as a natural way to express themselves. Utilizing play, art, and sandtray techniques provides insight into a child's thoughts, feelings, and how they experience the world. Play can act as a form of communication for children who are trying to overcome challenges related to traumatic experiences, disregulated emotions, and interpersonal relationships. Play is a safe way for children to learn and practice skills needed for real life situations. Play therapy helps children:

regulate emotions
build trust and relationship skills
develop self-control and resiliency 
process traumatic events
develop coping strategies for anxiety
build problem-solving skills
develop acceptance of self and others

Psychotherapy

The therapeutic journey is a very personal experience and goals are different for each person. Traditional talk therapy can benefit people who are looking to promote personal growth/change, manage stress/anxiety, work on interpersonal or family relationships, handle difficult decisions, and process overwhelming emotions. Teens often welcome the safe space to express their thoughts and feelings about how they are experiencing the world around them. Parents often benefit from support when they feel overwhelmed with work/life balance, parenting struggles, and managing family relationships.

Family Therapy

Families benefit from traditional psychotherapy techniques as well as the use of expressive approaches. Play, story-telling, sandtray, and art techniques can promote healthy communication, build trust, improve interactions, and strengthen emotional bonds. Family therapy may include all members of the family or certain selected members of the family based on presenting concerns.

Eye Movement Desentization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is an extensively researched and proven treatment method used in therapy to help resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. EMDR requires the clinician to follow a specific protocol that includes 8 phases. An EMDR session involves bilateral stimulation of the brain that is activated by left/right eye movements or tactile stimulation. EMDR does not involve typical "talk therapy" for processing painful material; rather, it focuses on a specific target memory that is "frozen in time" and helps to process the upsetting thoughts, images, and emotions that are connected to the target memory. When a person successfully completes a session of EMDR, the painful material is still rememtbered but the strong emotions are no longer connected to the targeted memory. EMDR is effective in treating:

grief and loss
anixety/panic attacks/phobias
chronic illness/medical issues
depression and mood dysregulation
PTSD and other stress-related traumatic experiences
violence and abuse
and many other presenting issues