Services

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I offer parent counseling, family counseling, child counseling, and parent coaching. I will work with you to determine a treatment plan that will best meet the needs of your family. We will also work collaboratively to determine the format of our time together. Listed below are some of the modalities I am trained in and theoretical perspectives that inform my work. 

Being With is a year-long training program developed and led by Robyn Gobbel that creates an embodied understanding of the relevant relational neuroscience that allows therapeutic tools to become useful and intuitive.

It teaches tools that address regulation, connection, and felt-safety– for both children and their caregivers (and myself!) 

It teaches how to put connection and felt-safety first so that people can experience compassion and integration, thus making hard things easier to tolerate.

Concepts from this program can also be found in Robyn Gobbel’s book, Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors, and are at the foundation of how I work with children, their parents, and basically any human being I encounter.

Parent Coaching is different than parent counseling in that it is more focused on guidance and support in the here-and-now. Counseling, on the other hand, goes deeper into your challenges and struggles to understand what may have occurred in your past that is impacting your present. In counseling we explore and process past traumas and experiences that may be keeping you stuck as a parent. We can identify and understand your triggers that make it hard for you to parent in the way that aligns with your personal morals and values. We can interweave what we learn about our past and ourselves with new tools and support grounded in interpersonal neurobiology. In parent coaching we will work through the concepts from the Being With program together as we tackle your day-to-day parenting challenges. In parent coaching we do not diagnose, therefore; we cannot provide a superbill for insurance reimbursement. We can decide together which stream of support feels more applicable to you.

Theraplay® is a method of therapy that strengthens attachment, engagement, self-esteem, and trust in others. It is a series of activities, games, and interactions between parent and child that are guided by the clinician. These playful, attuned, multi-sensory interactions can be very valuable and healing in a system that struggles with connection, felt-safety, and attachment. You can learn more about Theraplay® HERE.

EMDR is a therapy technique that guides the client through a trauma memory using bilateral stimulation to unlock the nervous system, allowing the client to process the memory. This can alleviate some discomfort and pain that may come up as that trauma memory gets triggered by things happening in the now. When working with children, I incorporate play or sand tray with EMDR to process trauma. Click HERE to learn more about EMDR.

TBRI® is an intervention designed to support the families of vulnerable children. This intervention was created by Dr. Karyn Purvis at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University. It is an attachment-based and trauma-informed approach that teaches three principles to meet the needs of vulnerable children. Caregivers learn empowering principles, connecting principles, and correcting principles to help children from hard places to reach their fullest potential. Click HERE to learn more about TBRI®.

Sand tray is an expressive mode of psychotherapy that utilizes figurines and sand to represent and communicate a client’s inner world. Intra- and inter-personal issues can be explored in a more metaphorical way to navigate thoughts and feelings and process wounds and traumas. Sand tray is typically seen as a safe and playful way to do the hard work of trauma processing.

My office is housed on a care farm. Every client has the choice whether to utilize the outdoor space and the contact with farm animals or not. If the client chooses to utilize the farm space and/or animals, I will be with the client at all times. Here are some of the potential benefits of incorporating the care farm into our therapeutic work:

-Promotes sense of security and emotional support

-Increases self-regulation

-Reduces symptoms of anxiety and/or depression

-Promotes relaxation

-Increases self-confidence

-Encourages development of social-emotional skills such as empathy, nurturance, and responsibility

-Builds rapport and trust

-Increases problem solving skills

-Can assist in grief/loss

-Increases ability to recognize emotions

-Can support attachment development

-Improves cooperation and motivation

-Can increase attention and impulse control

-Offers an invitation to enter into play, which promotes a sense of felt safety in the body

-Seeing the macro and micro systems of the farm can help a person better understand  the macro and micro systems of themselves