Therapy Services

Individual Psychotherapy

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:​

• Adult ADD/ADHD

• Aging

• Anxiety

• Adult child/parent relationship challenges

• Autism/Asperger's Syndrome 

• Blended families

• Caregiving challenges ("Sandwich Generation")

• College mental health

• Coming out

• Communication style differences

• Dating 

• Depression 

• Educational challenges (adult)

• Fatherhood

• Family conflict

• Friendship in adulthood

• Grief and bereavement

• LGBTQIA+ issues

• Life transitions 

• Marital and premarital challenges

• Men's issues

• Mood disorders

• Questioning sexual orientation

• Questioning gender identity 

• Parenting Support

• Relationship issues

• Self-inquiry

• Single parenting 

• Social communication challenges

• Social media and online gaming 

• Spiritual crisis

• Stress and Coping

Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy & Behavioral Health

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to: 

• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

• Anxiety 

• Autism/Asperger's (ASD)

• Educational problems 

• Executive Functioning challenges

• Depression 

• Experimentation with substance use

• Friendships

• Gender identity exploration

• Grief and bereavement 

• Inflexibility

• Learning differences

• Online gaming, social media, and cell phone use

• Parenting Counseling

• Parent-Child relationship challenges

• Peer relationship development

• Perspective-taking challenges (hard to see other people's point of view/express empathy when expected)

• Questioning sexual orientation 

• Self-control (managing emotions and behavior)

• Separation anxiety

• School selection (college, vocational, etc.)

• Sibling relationship challenges

• Sleep problems

• Social anxiety

• Social communication challenges

• Social skills development

Family Therapy

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• Addiction in a family member

• Adjustment problems affecting one or more family members 

• Behavioral problems in children supported by multiple caregivers (e.g., grandparents, au pair, nanny)

• Children's adjustment to family structure post-separation or divorce (dual households)

• Co-parenting differences between married or divorced parents 

• Disability in a family member

• End-of-life support issues (disagreements over care planning, long-term care, hospice admission)

• Family separation due to immigration 

• Grief and bereavement

• Job/career changes; moving 

• Parent-child relationship problems

• Parent-child temperament differences

• Parenting style differences

• Sibling relationship challenges

• Sudden or chronic illness in a family member

• Temperament differences between family members

Couples Counseling

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• Addiction problems

• Adjustment to new blended family

• Changes in couple/marital relationship

• Challenges with in-law relationships

• Clashes in family cultural expression 

• Communication style differences

• Contemplating separation or divorce.

• Decision-making support

• Differences in parenting styles

• Health issues

• Interfaith relationships

• Infidelity

• Interpersonal conflict

• Life changes/transitions

• Neurodiverse couples

• Self-inquiry for prospective parents considering adoption or surrogacy

• Self-regulation of feelings and behavior

• Sexual concerns

Clinical Consultation & Educational Support for ADD/ADHD/LD

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to: ​

• Active listening skills for adolescents and adults

• Coping with oppositional or defiant behavior patterns

• Educational advocacy: accessing educational resources for managing ADHD (elementary school through graduate school) 

• Executive functioning skill development (all ages)

• Decision-making about medication

• Discerning between symptoms of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

• Independent living skills for adolescents and young adults

• Initial screening for ADHD symptoms 

• Initial screening for Learning Disabilities

• Learning self-advocacy skills (adolescents and young adults)

• Parent-child relationship challenges associated with ADHD

• Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation for ADHD

• Psychotherapy or counseling for mental health challenges commonly co-occurring with ADHD (e.g., social and performance anxiety, dysthymia, or depression)

• Relationship support for individuals with ADHD and their partners

• Social skills support for children and adolescents

• Symptom management of ADHD for parents at home

• Understanding ADHD experientially (for parents and partners of those with ADHD)

Infant and Early Childhood Parenting Consultation

Common focus areas include, but are not limited to:​

• Adjusting to daycare, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

• Adoption 

• Aggression in older infants/young toddlers (biting, slapping)

• Balancing parenting duties

• Binkies: to bink or not to bink?

• Delayed developmental milestones: "How do I know for sure?"

• Elimination problems (Number 1 and Number 2 problems)

• Emergent relationship challenges for new parents

• Developmental concerns noted by outside providers

• General "ages and stages" questions and concerns

• Introduction of foster children to the family

• Jealousy of older sibling toward new baby

• Maternal mental health

• Parent-child attachment

• Paternal mental health

• Picky eaters

• Potty training 

• Relationship challenges with care providers outside the family (e.g., nannies, au pairs, babysitters, teachers) 

• Self-regulation challenges with emotions and behavior

• Separation anxiety

• Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Single parenting 

• Sleep problems 

• Sleep training

• Social skills development 

• Speech development

• Temperament counseling

• "When do I need to see a specialist?"