Child Therapy
Children often bring parents to new and unexpected edges of experience.
If your child is showing ongoing behavioral or emotional struggles, therapy can help you and your child understand what’s underneath the behavior and find ways forward that bring more ease at home and school.
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 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. I use a mix of play therapy, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and relational approaches to access a child’s inner world and offer interventions that lead to healing and growth.
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.
Specializations:
Anxiety
ADHD
Fee:
$150/45min child therapy session
$85/40min parent strategy session
Office: Kensington/North Berkeley
I only see kiddos in-person. Schedule a consultation for more details.