Interventions aim to overcome barriers to emotional well-being, family harmony, and school success. Strategies are experiential in nature to help with connection. Individuals and families are armed with physical, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral strategies.
Some common challenges faced by children, youth, and adults I serve include:
- Anxiety related issues
- Depression
- Low Sense of Self (Self Esteem)
- Trouble Identifying Feelings
- Emotional and behavioral challenges
- Separation issues, school avoidance, and school phobia
- Developmental, attentional, and learning challenges
- Stressors from transitions and other difficult situations
- Social issues with peers and related emotional impact
- Rigid thinking patterns and its effect on home and school life
- Challenges with self-awareness and self-regulation
- Emotional well-being
- Navigating college preparation, college life and post high school direction.
Family harmony is critical for the well-being of the individual and can be enhanced through the parent consultation process or family therapy sessions, when desired. Therapist participation in school meetings is available, as school success impacts a young person’s sense of Self (how people view themselves; unchanged by daily ups and downs).
Some key areas of family considerations that are important to the process in both Individual therapy and Family therapy include:
- Individual focus - applying a plan for interventions, with assessment for areas of need
- When warranted, intermittent family systems interactions.
- Sibling, parental, family, and generational relationships
- Family Communication
- Individual and family life transitions
