Child Therapy
Children often bring parents to new and unexpected edges of experience.
Behavioral and emotional struggles are inevitable in kids, but parents typically have a sense of when kids could use additional support. Child therapy can help you and your child manage through difficult experiences and find ways new ways to communicate and connect.
Even considering therapy for your child shows how deeply you care about their well-being. It means you’ve noticed that something important may be happening for them and that it deserves thoughtful attention.
Children express struggles in different ways. Some have big emotions that disrupt life at home or school. Others withdraw, shut down, and it can be hard to figure out how to get through to them.
In the teenage years, the behavior can be even more worrisome: eating disorders, substances, and social dynamics can be very intimidating for the whole family to be with.
In therapy, I work together with parents to understand the child may be experiencing. We use the first 3-5 sessions to develop a conceptualization of what may be happening and how I can tailor the therapy to work with the what they’re struggling with. For young kids, I use a mix of play therapy, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and relational approaches to access a kids’s inner world and offer interventions that lead to healing and growth.
For adolescents and teens, we do talk therapy, helping them to feel understood and helping them navigate the discovery of out who they are and how to manage through difficult dynamics with friends, school, parents, and their world.
Every child is different. It’s important to the way I work to customize treatment to the issue and how the child can open to working on whats holding them back.
Office: Berkeley | SF