What is Child Therapy?
![Young girl in child therapysmiling while surrounded by building blocks](https://jones-woodpsychological.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/qtq80-uMA4e3-300x200.jpeg)
Child therapy is counseling for kids that is specially designed to help children and adolescents face their challenges. This may start as early as toddlers in preschool and range to teenagers in high school. Some of these challenges might include mental illness, trauma, and loss, as well as difficult feelings and behaviors.
Common issues addressed may include:
- Mental health diagnosis
- Divorce
- Bullying
- Relocation
- Starting a new school
- Experiencing a traumatic event
- Abuse
- Death of a loved one
Our clinicians that specialize in child therapy are:
![Leslie McNamara - Counselor and EMDR specialist - child therapy, Dialectical behavior therapy](https://jones-woodpsychological.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Leslie-McNamara-150x150.jpg)
![Elizabeth Harris, PhD -psychologist - specializing in hypnotherapy](https://jones-woodpsychological.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Elizabeth-pic-scaled-e1640970031607-150x150.jpg)
PhD
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![Tessa Basco, LISW-S child therapy](https://jones-woodpsychological.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Tessa-pic-150x150.jpg)
Trauma-Focused Child Therapy
Trauma-focused therapy is a specific approach to treatment that recognizes and emphasizes how traumatic experiences impact a child’s mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The purpose of this therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist the child to better understand, cope with, and process emotions and memories tied to traumatic events. This can help the child create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place.
Our clinicians that specialize in trauma-focused therapy are:
School Assessments
We provide various types of specialized assessments related to schools and education. They include:
- Threat assessment
- Intelligence testing
- Learning disability testing
- ADHD assessment
- Autism testing
Our clinicians that specialize in school assessment are: