Brave Heart Child & Family Counseling Inc
Child & Family Therapy for Ages 4 and up
Does your child struggle with integrating significant medical experiences, navigate grief and loss, or adjusting to major life changes? Does your child seem to have larger than necessary emotional responses?
“My child was hospitalized recently due to a traumatic accident. Now he/she is expected to return to school.”
“My child had a surgery, and his/her behaviors changed drastically after this surgery.”
“My child has to go for blood draws every other week. It is always such a big ordeal for my child and our family. I wish it could be a simpler process.”
“Our family lost a special pet and/or family member and my child is having constant tantrums and acting out.”
“[Family member] was recently diagnosed with a terminal illness. I don’t know how to tell my child.”
“I don’t know how to help my child calm down once they start spiraling or becoming upset.“
“My child goes from 0 to 100 in a split second.”
“It feels like we are walking on eggshells in our household. Nothing we try is helping.”
If these resonated with you, let me come alongside you, through play therapy and other modalities, to help you and your child have a calmer family life with more emotional stability.
Hello! I’m Belinda Lee.
I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT #121127) and a registered play therapist (#T5293) in San Diego, California. I am currently pursuing certification in Somatic Experiencing, which is a trauma-informed, somatic-based theoretical framework.
I am passionate about restoring peace in the home again and helping parents better understand your children’s emotional experiences while simultaneously equipping children to understand and integrate challenging life experiences - whether that is related to medical trauma, grief and loss, anger, or anxiety.
About Play Therapy
My primary approach in therapy is to use play therapy.
Play is empowering for children, as it is their natural language and expression.
Playing for a child is like talk therapy for an adult. Toys are children’s words, as one of the play therapy founders Gary Landreth says. Through play, children naturally process, make sense, and integrate experiences they often cannot put into words.
The therapeutic process of play therapy equips children so they can express themselves in a healthier manner, make more thoughtful, informed choices in their life, and live up to the potential of who they have been created to be.