Therapy for Children and Families
Your Child Is Telling You Something Has Changed
You can see it in your child.
Maybe it’s the way they’ve grown quieter at the dinner table.
Or the questions they’ve started asking about a parent who isn’t there anymore.
Or the new tears at bedtime when bedtime used to be easy.
A separation, a death in the family, a move, an illness. Children feel the shifts in their world before they have the words to describe them.
And You Feel It, too
And you, as their parent, feel it alongside them.
You want to do this right.
You want to say the right thing, ask the right question, hold them through it without making it worse.
But no one taught you how to walk a child through grief, or divorce, or a season of change that doesn’t have an ending you can promise.
Children Process Differently Than We Do
The hardest part of supporting a hurting child is that their pain doesn’t always look like pain.
It looks like clinginess. Or withdrawal. Or anger that comes out of nowhere.
It looks like a regression to behaviors you thought were behind you.
A child who has lost something (a parent, a home, a sense of how the family used to be) is doing the work of grief in a body that is still learning what feelings even are.
What They Actually Need
They need a place where they can do that work at their own pace, with someone who knows how to meet them in it.
They need to feel heard, valued, and accepted exactly as they are.
How I Work with Children and Parents Together
I’ve spent years walking with children through some of the hardest moments a young person can face.
My work in hospice and as the coordinator of a children’s grief and loss program taught me that children speak through more than words.
They speak through play, through the questions they ask and the ones they avoid.
In our sessions, I create a place where your child can express what they’re carrying through conversation, play, creativity, and curiosity.
I Also Work Alongside You, the Parent.
You’ll build your confidence in supporting your child.
You’ll find language for the conversations that feel hardest.
You’ll come away with practical tools you can use at home, between sessions, in the moments that matter most.
Together, we strengthen your family’s communication, your child’s resilience, and your shared emotional awareness during seasons of change, both expected and unexpected.
A Family That Feels More Connected Through the Change
You’ll see your child begin to express themselves more openly.
You’ll find your own footing as a parent again.
The family relationships that felt strained or uncertain will start to feel steadier.
And your child will know, in the way that children know things, that they aren’t moving through this alone.
Reach Out Today
If your child is moving through a season of change, grief, or family transition, I’d be honored to support you both.
Call me today at: (206) 446-4496.