Learning positive and healthy habits at an early age in areas of self-esteem, self-care, interpersonal relationships, communication and nutrition can have life-long effects.

We have specialized education, training, and experience in working with children and adolescents and offer individually tailored treatments in accordance with your child’s needs with the goal of restoring good health and happiness to their everyday life.

Therapists will work with your child/teen to help them understand the world around them and develop the tools they need to manage the seemingly overwhelming emotions they are experiencing. Adolescence is a time of great transition both mentally and physically. In a world where teens are bombarded with contradictory messages on how they should think, feel, and act, therapy can provide a safe place for them to voice their concerns and feel heard and understood. Therapists often incorporate parents or other family members in therapy sessions to enhance familial relationships and increase positive and productive communication in the home.

If your child has experienced a stressful life event such as moving school or home, divorce or separation, this may have an adverse impact on their functioning. Some children also have negative reactions to stressful events such as significant trauma, illness or bullying. Often a person may be going through developmental changes such as transitioning from infancy into early childhood or middle childhood.

Your child may also be experiencing pubertal changes or peer group influences that cause difficulty in expressing feelings. This may result in internalizing their feelings and displaying withdrawing behaviors, eating issues, secretive behaviors, or more externalizing behaviors such as cutting, aggressive or acting out behaviors. With today’s pressures of daily living, some children and young people worry excessively or develop perfectionist tendencies through competitive school pressures. Often such difficulties may even be expressed with physical symptoms such as unexplained stomach pains or headaches.