Services · Ages 2–12
Therapy for children.
- PCIT
- Play therapy
- Trauma-informed
- Foster / adoption work
Kids don't have the words yet for what hurt them. The work meets them where they actually are — on the rug, in the play, in the parent's lap.
What we work with
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 (the bottom of the PCIT range), through middle school. Older kids and teens are welcome too — see Adults & teens.
How we work
Play therapy 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 use PCIT. We're PCIT-trained.
For older kids carrying specific trauma memories, we use trauma-focused approaches, sometimes including EMDR depending on what fits.
What a session looks like
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.
Ready when you are
A steady place to land is one call away.
No forms to fight through first. Call, email, or request a consult on the form — whichever feels easiest.