We offer individual and family treatment for adolescents, as well as parent and school-based consultation meetings for a range of mental health concerns and life stressors.  By the time parents begin investigating treatment options, they often already feel frustrated with or distressed about their child, and typically a bit undermined in their ability to parent effectively. We strongly believe that therapy with children should be an empowering, positive experience for parents that allows them to learn new, more adaptive ways to relate to their child and to themselves as parents. We view parents as experts on their children and feel that their love, support, and knowledge of their child are crucial elements to successful treatment. Though the process of starting therapy with adolescents occasionally involves some parental coaxing, once it begins, young adults typically discover that they can be remarkable students of their internal life and behaviors, and ultimately greatly value their experience in treatment. 

When appropriate, we offer wraparound services to ensure that everyone involved in your child’s care (i.e. tutors, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, OT, educational consultants, etc.) is communicating regularly and working towards the same goal(s). We frequently work hand in glove with schools and, as a result, have fostered close relationships with teachers and administrators at numerous local and boarding schools.

Life-stressor support services include:

  • academic pressures,

  • parent-child attachment related concerns,

  • divorce,

  • parenting conflicts and dilemmas,

  • bereavement (general and with a unique specialty in the loss of a sibling),

  • identity specific to gender diversity,

  • medical and health issues (e.g., mental health issues related to or resultant from acute or chronic medical illnesses),

  • trauma (e.g., childhood physical or sexual abuse, car accident).

Areas of diagnostic interest include:

  • emotion regulation difficulties,

  • substance use disorders,

  • attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),

  • generalized anxiety disorder,

  • obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),

  • panic attacks,

  • separation anxiety,

  • depression,

  • oppositional defiant disorder (e.g. child who frequently argues with adults, often loses temper),

  • gender dysphoria,

  • post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).