When big feelings are telling a bigger story
Support for
Grief & Loss,
Medical Family Therapy,
Anger Outbursts & Anxiety
Whether your child is grieving, adjusting to a difficult medical experience, or struggling with big emotions — I am here to help your child and family process what you’ve been through, build the skills you need, and find a greater sense of peace and clarity again.
Providing Accessible, Compassionate care for children 4+ and families since 2020
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Providing Accessible, Compassionate care for children 4+ and families since 2020 ~
If your child’s big emotions feel overwhelming,
you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Play therapy specializing in supporting children ages 4+ who are navigating medical trauma, grief & loss, anger outbursts, and anxiety
The Work
My primary approach in therapy is to use child-centered play therapy, Gestalt play therapy, and Somatic Experiencing.
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.
Somatic Experiencing is about understanding our own nervous systems and instinctual body reactions and learning to regulate our emotional responses that way.
The therapeutic process of play therapy, combined with Somatic Experiencing tools, 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.
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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.”
— Mr. Fred Rogers
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"Play functions as a neural exercise that improves the efficiency of the neural circuit that can instantaneously down regulate fight/flight behaviors."
— Dr. Stephen Porges