Areas of Treatment for Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Anxiety: Includes Social Anxiety & Shyness, General Anxiety, Panic Attacks / Panic Disorder, Phobias, and General Stress.
Depression
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Adjustment and Transition
ADHD / Executive Functioning
Emerging Adults: leaving or returning home
Autism and Related Social Communication/Cognition Challenges
Education and employment changes
Relationship changes
Employment support
Stress management
Technology Overuse
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CBT refers to a set of psychological treatments that have been empirically supported and proven to help individuals and families, who are experiencing psychological challenges. CBT is a skills-based and goal-oriented approach that helps individuals gain self-awareness and identify negative thinking and behavioral patterns so that they can change them, be more positive, and in turn improve emotional factors such as Anxiety & Depression.
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Regardless of chronological age, a client’s cognitive, social, and emotional development is always considered when planning treatment and goals.
Evidence-Based Approaches
I provide evidence-based care to help clients achieve their treatment goals. Treatment is considered within a developmental perspective, informed by an individual’s social, emotional, and cognitive development.
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MI for raising self-awareness and eliciting change. MI helps individuals who are stuck or unaware of needed change move through the “precontemplation” to “contemplative”, “planning,” “action,” & “maintenance” stages of change.
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Behavioral, utilized for individuals and caregivers of children to support healthy behavior change, commonly utilized for ADHD/Executive Functioning, Low Motivation, Anxiety, and Depressed Mood.
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Developed at the Yale Child Study Center, SPACE is a parent/caregiver-based approach to treat children, adolescents, and young adults with Anxiety, OCD, and young adults who are struggling to "launch". SPACE is largely rooted in Family Systems and CBT approaches.
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Coordination With Other Providers including but not limited to pediatricians, psychiatrists, other health care providers, school counselors, speech and language therapists, executive function coaches, & supportive employment specialists.
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Family Therapy/Family Systems, utilized in family counseling, and incorporated into treatment for Children and Young Adults.
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Caregiver Consultation & Coaching for caregivers of children, adolescents, and young adults.