Therapy Services

 AutPlay Therapy is an integrative family play therapy framework designed to address the mental health needs of neurodivergent children (autistic, ADHD, learning differences, sensory differences, Tourette syndrome, giftedness/twice exceptional, intellectual developmental disorder, developmental disabilities, etc.).   Throughout the AutPlay process, children are empowered and learn to value themselves, their thoughts and feelings, and how to advocate for their needs. 

Theraplay is an approach to child and family therapy that focuses on addressing behavioral, emotional, or developmental issues. Through play therapy and healthy interaction, it aims to improve the parent-child relationship. 

Adlerian play therapy will provide space for both child-led and counselor-led activities to help the child make progress in self-concept, sense of connectedness to others, and overall sense of empowerment. The overarching goal of play therapy, particularly in a telehealth services format, is to support the child’s shift in beliefs about themselves, others, and the world to help them feel more successful personally and in relationships with others. 

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a 12 session modality grounded in social cognitive theory that focuses on how traumatic events can alter an individual's views of themselves, the world, and others, particularly in the areas of safety, trust, control, esteem, and intimacy. 

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy

SPACE aims to treat children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder through innovative approaches like neurodiversity therapy and play therapy. Although children do not have to attend SPACE sessions – they are the patients! When SPACE treatment is successful, children feel less anxious and function better following treatment.

Some of the main anxiety problems treated with SPACE include: 

- ARFID

- Separation anxiety 

- Social anxiety 

- Generalized anxiety 

- Fears and phobias 

- Panic disorder and agoraphobia 

- Selective mutism 

- Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a cutting-edge modality created to help clients heal from distressing memories and traumatic experiences that remain trapped within the brain. Rather than requiring a detailed discussion of trauma with a counselor, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy targets the brain’s natural healing abilities, allowing clients to process and release the emotional pain associated with past events. EMDR therapy offers a path to feeling grounded and whole again, no longer encumbered by the effects of trauma. 

  Inference-based Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (I-CBT) aims to bring resolution to obsessional doubts by teaching clients that obsessional doubts do not arise in the same way as normal doubts. Normal doubts come about for legitimate reasons, and are relevant to the here-and-now, whereas obsessional doubts never are.

Throughout treatment, clients are encouraged to trust their inner and outer senses, which leaves no room for obsessional doubts. Fortunately, those with OCD already reason just like everyone else in most non-obsessional situations, so there is nothing new to learn, except to apply the same to the obsessional situation.

  ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that involves gradually exposing oneself to feared situations or triggers and then preventing the compulsive behaviors that are typically used to relieve anxiety. By confronting anxieties without engaging in compulsions, individuals can learn that their fears are not as dangerous as they seem and that the distress will decrease over time, which is a first-line treatment for OCD