Therapy for Tweens and Teens
Helping Teens and Their Families Understand How
They're Wired and What They Need to Thrive
With over 6 years of experience as a special education provider and behavior interventionist, I hold that behavioral and emotional regulation change is both skill based and relational.
I work with tweens and teens who are navigating the messy, meaningful work of growing up.
I can support your child with:
Life transitions such as divorce, family changes, and blending families
Social pressures and shifting friendships
Academic stress and performance anxiety
Grief and loss
Understanding and adjusting to diagnoses like anxiety, depression, and ADHD
Building communication skills and healthy boundaries
Developing a positive relationship with food and body image
Education and awareness around substance use
Adjunctive Parent Sessions:
Values and Culture Based
Child Development Guided
I offer monthly parent sessions alongside your child's individual therapy. These sessions are collaborative and focused so you can understand and respond to what you're seeing at home.
What these sessions can help with:
Making sense of behavior
Understanding child development
Parenting from your family's values and culture
Navigating the gap between generations
Reinforcing skills at home
Teens and tweens need to trust that therapy is theirs. While I don't share the specifics of what your child says in session, I help you understand the bigger patterns and undercurrent of our work
Parent sessions are offered once a month as an add-on to your child's ongoing therapy. If you're curious whether they'd be a good fit for your family, mention it in your consultation call
My approach to therapy with your child is informed by certifications obtained through the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, including Social Skills Training, Pivotal Response Training, Peer-mediated instruction and intervention, Naturalistic Intervention, Functional Communication training, Parent Implemented Interventions, Stimulus Control and Prompt Fading, and Behavior Chains and Chaining Procedures