Brave Heart Child & Family Counseling

A safe space for your child to bravely embrace their emotions.

Counseling for Anger Outbursts

If you and your child are struggling to manage their anger and frustrations…

I can help you rediscover peace and harmony in your home and family relationships again.

Counseling for Anxiety

If it feels like worries and anxieties are controlling you and your child’s life more often than not…

I offer tools to help your child stay grounded and less overwhelmed by his or her emotions as easily.

Life Transitions & Divorce

If your child has experienced grief and loss of a significant person, pet, and/or community, or if there’s been a change in family structure…

I can help your child integrate their experience of this life transition more smoothly to create and discover their new normal.

Counseling for Medical Encounters

If a normal doctor’s visit often ends up being a huge emotional ordeal, or if your child has been through a traumatic medical experience…

I create a safe space for your child process and understand their stories and develop coping skills for future medical encounters.

Hello! I’m Belinda Lee.

I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT #121127) and a registered play therapist in San Diego, California.

I am passionate about helping kids know that they are not alone in their emotions, especially those who are struggling with anger, anxiety, and perfectionism, exploring their cultural and ethnic identity, and have experienced grief and loss and/or medical trauma.

I want to provide a space where all emotions and aspects of identity are accepted. I believe healing and transformation occurs when children are in a confidential, nonjudgmental, and safe environment where they are allowed to identify and explore their experiences through their natural language of play.

I seek to empower these children so they can express themselves in a healthier manner, make more thoughtful, informed choices in their life, and live up to their potential of who they have been created to be.

About Play Therapy

Play therapy wit Asian American girl

My primary approach for working alongside you and your child in therapy is to use play therapy.

Play is a child’s natural medium of self-expression. Toys are children’s words, and play is their language, as one of the play therapy founders Gary Landreth says.

As such, play in therapy provides children a chance to explore their feelings and problems, just as adults talk about their experiences and difficulties in therapy. It is a powerful tool in facilitating change in children. Play therapy allows children to safely process internal and external experiences and explore their associated emotions with their particular situation.

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.”

—Fred Rogers

Let’s Talk!

Book a free 15-minute phone call with me.