About Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is not easily described in general statements. It varies depending on the personalities of the therapist and client and the particular problems you bring forward. Psychotherapy focuses on understanding and changing emotional and behavioral patterns that cause difficulty for an individual, couple, or family.
Infant Mental Health
I use a comprehensive, relationship-based and preventitive approach in working with very young (zero to three years old) children and families to
- Promote trusting, positive infant-parent relationship.
- Work with children’s emotional, social, and behavioral problems.
- Address mother’s mental health needs during pregnancy and through the first year of the infant’s life.
Play Therapy
Play therapy uses children’s communication and learning styles in a structured, theoretically based approach to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings. Play therapy may help children learn adaptive behaviors and promote cognitive development.
Marriage and Family Therapy
Through marriage and family therapy, families or individuals within a family learn improved ways to interact with each other and resolve conflicts. Marriage and family therapy is typically brief and solution-focused.
Trauma Treatment
I have training, education, and supervised experience in providing services to children who have experienced neglect, physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and other traumatic events.