—Is your child struggling with social-emotional, behavioral, developmental, health and/or educational challenges? Are you wondering how to best maintain a developmentally appropriate connection with your teen as she individuates from you? Has connection between you and your child been impacted by life events, and you need support with how to rebuild it? Childhood anxiety is, now, at epidemic proportions. On average, parents wait 2-2.5 years after the signs of clinically significant anxiety appear to seek help. Strategic interventions in therapy, at home and in school can spare children years, if not lifetimes, of unnecessary struggle.

—Most of the children and adolescents I see in therapy come for support around relationships, life transitions, separation, loss, and anxiety. I specialize in assessing and treating the interpersonal and brain-body impacts of: trauma, anxiety, depression, aggression, isolation, disorders or delays in development, executive functioning (concentrating, organizing, initiating, completing things); regulating attention, emotion, behavior, impulse, sleeping and eating; the specific challenges facing girls and what girls and boys can do about it; growing up with substance abuse, narcissism, workaholism, emotional abandonment; struggling with the trauma of neglect or abuse.

—I tailor individual child play therapy to your child’s specific relational and brain-body needs, abilities and levels of functioning. Parents are provided with tools and support. In addition I provide parenting consultations ongoing or just when you need a “tune-up”. I’m a firm believer in “tune-ups”.

—I employ relationship-based approaches rooted in the latest brain-body science to individual and group adolescent therapy, including expressive therapy, sand tray therapy, art therapy.

—I provide child/ adolescent evaluations to guide health, behavioral, social and education interventions. To best support wellbeing and development, I provide consultations to caregivers across a child’s environments, educators, and providers.