Child & Adolescent Therapy

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is hugely variable.  People with ASD can have opposing symptoms. There are children with ASD who don’t like to be squeezed and cannot even tolerate a…

Self-injury is a non-suicidal act that involves deliberate, self-inflicted damage to the body.  There are various forms of self-injury, but the most common include: intentional carving or cutting of the…

What is ABA therapy? ABA stands for Applied Behavioral Analysis. It refers to using scientific behavioral principles to manipulate a learner’s environment to help them gain skills quickly and effectively….

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on teaching patients and families several strategies to help tolerate painful emotions and to manage difficult situations in the best way possible. We all face…

Anxiety is a natural, normal and harmless emotion. Anxiety becomes problematic when it begins to prevent or interfere with a child’s ability to engage in and enjoy daily activities. Anxiety…

The short and simple answer to this question is “yes,” but when assessing PTSD  in children it is important to understand more about it, as its signs and symptoms in…

Sifting through the alphabet soup of psychotherapy treatments can often be bewildering and overwhelming. The rise of evidence-based psychotherapies (i.e., treatments that have strong research support) has had a tremendous…

Does your child say, “I’m okay” to you even though you know they really are not? How can you determine if your child is experiencing a normal amount of sadness…

Does your child have an excessive worry about being judged negatively by others? Do they often avoid certain social events that would require them to interact with others? Do they…

With the increased number of terror attacks that we are hearing about in the news, something that had once been a much rarer occurrence may feel like it is happening…