Therapy for children.

Trauma, attachment disruption, big behaviors that don't make sense to anyone — including the kid. Foster-care and adoption-related challenges. Sleep that won't come. Hitting and biting that won't stop. Anxiety, OCD, and the heavy quiet of childhood depression.

We work as young as age 2, through middle school. Older kids and teens are welcome too — see Adults & teens.

Therapy with play is not silly. It is the medium kids actually communicate in. Sand, figures, drawings, the way a child arranges the room — these are how a young nervous system tells the story it doesn't yet have words for.

For parent-child work where the issue is the relationship itself — the cycle of meltdowns, the impossibility of getting through a meal, the parent who is exhausted and the kid who is exhausting — we are here to help.

For older kids carrying specific trauma memories, we use trauma-focused approaches, sometimes including EMDR depending on what fits.

First session: parent (or caregivers) come without the child. We do intake — history, what's going on now, what's tried before, what the goals are.

Following sessions: depending on the work, this might be the kid alone, parent and kid together, or some combination. We'll explain the structure honestly so nothing is mysterious.