Children’s Services
Child Therapy
Needing additional support to help your child’s mental health is extremely common. Mental health concerns can also show up differently in children versus adults.
The good news is, I am a clinician who is able to help! I’m trained in evidence-based approaches to help effectively manage a wide range of concerns experienced throughout childhood. I’m happy to help you and your child tackle whatever you may be struggling with and do not see any problem as “too big” or “too small.”
If you are:
Feeling at a loss regarding how to help your child manage unpleasant emotions or behavioral outbursts
Seeing your child struggle with peers or in school
Experiencing conflict with your child
Witnessing your child struggle to cope with a difficult life event
Noticing problematic behavioral patterns that have not changed despite your endless attempts to correct them and apply various strategies that you have researched
Feeling worried or concerned about other symptoms you may be noticing for your child
Benefits of children’s therapy:
Identifying, expressing, and communicating emotions effectively
Learning and implementing calming and coping strategies
Reduce outbursts, anxiety, or tantrums
Improve taking turns and sharing
Enhance communication-listening, asking for help, initiating conversation
Develop empathy and understand social cues
Increase independence in daily activities- brushing teeth, getting dressed, completing chores
Impulse control- think through consequences before acting
Follow multi step directions- improve focus
Develop positive self concept- increase self confidence
Build resilience
Decrease avoidant behaviors
Addressing disruptive and maladaptive behaviors
Foster positive interactions in social and academic settings
Build and maintain friendships
Learn effective conflict resolution and problem solving
Process and heal from past trauma
I offer a range of therapy options
Adolescent Therapy
Needing additional support during adolescence is extremely common. Mental health concerns can also show up differently in adolescents versus adults.
The good news is, I’m able to help! I’m trained in evidence-based approaches to help effectively manage a wide range of concerns experienced throughout adolescence. I’m happy to help you and your teen tackle whatever you may be struggling with and do not see any problem as “too big” or “too small.”
If you are:
Witnessing your teen struggle to manage unpleasant or challenging emotions
Feeling uncertain of how to help your teen manage stressful life events
Experiencing repeated conflict with your teen and longing for a closer relationship
Worrying about you teen’s social relationships, well-being, and/or performance in school
Feeling worried or concerned about other symptoms you may be noticing for your teen
I offer a range of therapy options
Individual therapy offers a safe, supportive space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
Whether you’re navigating life’s challenges, want to improve quality of life, have mental health challenges, seeking support in a specific area of life, or working toward personal growth, therapy provides the tools and insight to help you move forward.
Individual therapy
Benefits of Individual Therapy include:
Experience more joy and happiness
Increase balance and control
Enhance and build relationships
Feel calm, confident, revitalized
Manage anxiety, depression, and stress
Process trauma and difficult life experiences
Build self-awareness and emotional resilience
Develop healthier coping and self-care strategies
Improve relationships and communication skills
Explore personal identity and self-worth
Develop new skills for handling stress
Understand patterns that keep you stuck
Navigate difficult life situations and challenges
Offer creative insights
Provide an empathic, non-judgmental, and compassionate space
Learn, develop, and implement healthy boundaries and limits
Develop time management and stress reduction techniques
Decrease avoidant behaviors
Replace unhealthy habits with productive routines
Improve decision making capabilities
Reduce negative thinking and improve positive self-talk
Discover new ways to solve problems
Trauma Informed Therapy offers a supportive space to explore unresolved experiences and the ways they may be effecting your life. You will work with a therapist who brings compassion, understanding, and specialized knowledge to help you feel safer, more grounded, and more connected to yourself.
Identifying aspects of your life that you would like to change and/or need support in to create more inner and outer peace in your life. This could be working through painful past or present emotions, working through anxiety, depression, or trauma.
Trauma Informed Therapy
I’m trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is a psychotherapy treatment designed to alleviate distress associated with traumatic memories.
I also help you establish boundaries with others, express your needs, and help you identify negative beliefs that are holding you back. I help clients with finding healthier ways of dealing with emotions to help gain control over emotional eating habits that can leave you feeling powerless over food.
Grief can be complicated. I can help you navigate the loss of a loved one and learn to co-exist with grief, to honor the loss you've experienced.
If you’re located in Minnesota, I offer the ability to engage in individual therapy via a HIPAA compliant form of video chat (Doxy.Me)
It’s easy and user-friendly, and allows you to have an appointment virtually.
You can use your mobile phone, computer, or tablet to access the telehealth server.
I know it can be a little uncomfortable to think about meeting virtually, however most find it to be very similar and as productive as in-person sessions.
Telehealth Therapy
