Sometimes young children need therapy. After separation from a parent or important family member, adoption, abuse, maternal depression or anxiety, premature birth, trauma such as a natural disaster or accident, or a serious illness or medically-diagnosed physiological or developmental disorder, a child can struggle just like adults and older kids too, although their distress may be less noticeable.

I assist kids from birth to 5 and their parents manage emotional/mental withdrawal, hypervigiliance, severe distress, resistance to daily functioning and routines, or negative/aggressive behavior. In "dyadic therapy", I work as a team with the parents and possibly other family members to assess non-verbal or verbal behavior and cues and assist positive transformation in the way the child relates to family members and others.