Support for growing families, wherever you are in the journey.
Therapy for children, adolescents, parents, and adults navigating the many transitions that come with planning for and raising a family. Sometimes life looks manageable from the outside while feeling anything but manageable on the inside. Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed, worried about your child, or simply trying to find a different way of parenting than the one you experienced growing up.
Or perhaps you're trying to understand big feelings, ADHD, or sibling dynamics that don't seem to resolve with any of the fixes you've read about. Together, we'll explore what's happening and find practical strategies that fit your individual needs and your family.
Perinatal & Postpartum
It’s never too early to ask for help. Therapy in pregnancy and postpartum can provide space to process difficult experiences, manage anxiety or depression, navigate changes in identity and relationships, and adjust to life as a parent.
Common Concerns:
Pregnancy & Birth-Related Stress
Postpartum Depression & Anxiety
Identity & Relationship Changes
Adjustment to Parenthood
What to Expect:
Therapy provides a compassionate space to process difficult experiences, understand what's contributing to your distress, and develop tools for navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood.
Approach:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment-Based Therapy
Mindfulness
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Common Concerns:
Big Feelings & Emotional Regulation
Parenting Challenges
Developmental Differences
Sibling/Family Dynamics
Young children often communicate through their behavior before they have the words to explain what they’re experiencing. Anxiety, big emotions, sleep difficulties, separation struggles, developmental differences, and challenging behavior can all leave parents wondering what to do next.
Young Children
& Families
What to Expect:
Therapy with young children typically includes caregivers as an important part of the process. With child-led and play - centered approaches, we explore feelings and behaviors in a safe space.
Approach:
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Dyadic Therapy
Parent Coaching
Developmentally Informed Therapy
My approach for parent-child therapy
1.
Children communicate through behavior.
Young children often express their feelings through actions rather than words. When behavior feels confusing or challenging, it is often a signal that something deeper needs attention.
Together, we slow down and look beneath the surface of behaviors to better understand what your child may be experiencing. This understanding allows us to respond in ways that support your child’s emotional needs while guiding them toward healthier ways of expressing themselves.
2.
Relationships are the foundation for change.
Our sense of safety, connection, and trust within relationships plays a powerful role in emotional development. Strengthening the relationship between children and their caregivers is often one of the most effective ways to support lasting change.
In our work together, we focus on nurturing connections, building understanding, and supporting interactions that help us feel secure, valued, and understood.
3.
We consider new tools for your toolbox.
Parents today are overwhelmed by conflicting advice about how to respond to children’s behavior. I offer evidence-based strategies that help families balance strong connection with clear, supportive boundaries.
Together, we identify practical tools that fit your child’s temperament and your family’s values so you can feel more confident navigating difficult moments and supporting your child’s growth.
Childhood & Adolescence
As children grow, their world becomes bigger—and so can their worries and challenges.
Therapy can give school-age children a place to develop coping skills, understand their emotions, build confidence, and work through challenges while also giving parents guidance about how to support them at home.
The teen years bring increasing independence, changing relationships, and a growing sense of identity. I provide a supportive space where adolescents can develop insight and coping skills while maintaining an appropriate level of parent involvement. When helpful, therapy can also address family relationships and communication.
Common Concerns:
Anxiety & Depression
School Difficulties
Emotion Regulation
Friendships
Rejection Sensitivity
What to Expect:
Therapy with school age children and adolescents is playful, interactive, and expressive. We use child directed play to build new understanding and offer support within relationships.
Approach:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Play/Expressive
Parent Involvement/Coaching
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
—Viktor E. Frankl