Brave Heart Child & Family Counseling Inc
Play Therapy for Children Ages 4 and up in San Diego and California.
Counseling for Medical Anxiety & Trauma
If your child has been through a traumatic medical experience, including a routine doctor’s visit…
I create a safe space for your child process and understand their stories to develop coping skills for future medical encounters.
Counseling for Grief & Loss
If your child has experienced grief and loss of a significant person, pet, and/or community…
I help your child commemorate and integrate their experiences to create and discover their new normal.
Counseling for Anger Outbursts
If your child are struggling to navigate their anger and big emotions…
I help you rediscover peace in your home and family relationships.
Counseling for Anxiety
If it feels like worries are controlling you and your child’s life more often than not…
I offer tools to help your child stay grounded and feel less easily overwhelmed by his or her emotions.
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 theoretical framework.
I am passionate about equipping children to understand and integrate challenging life experiences, especially related to medical trauma and grief and loss. I help children understand that they are not alone in their emotions, especially those who are struggling with anger and anxiety.
When children are in a confidential, nonjudgmental, and safe environment to explore their experiences through their natural language of play, they are able to experience healing and transformation. Play allows children to accept and integrate all their emotions and aspects of identity into their nervous system to allow for greater resilience.
Ultimately, the therapeutic process 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.
About Play Therapy
My primary approach for working alongside your family and your child in therapy is to use play therapy.
Play is a child’s natural medium of self-expression and provides children a chance to explore their feelings and problems, just as adults talk about their experiences and difficulties in therapy. Toys are children’s words, and play is their language, as one of the play therapy founders Gary Landreth says.
Play therapy is a powerful tool that allows children to safely process internal and external experiences and explore their associated emotions with their particular situation.