My approach to working with children centers around establishing relational safety. I employ child-centered play therapy, expressive arts therapy, and strength-based interventions to support and empower their healthy social and emotional development. Collaborating closely with parents as a team, I offer useful resources and parent psychoeducation to facilitate meaningful changes in the family systems.

Common reasons for seeking therapy for children include anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger control issues, navigating parents’ divorce, low self-esteem, parent-child conflict, sibling/peer conflict, school refusal, childhood trauma, etc.

In offering a secure and collaborative therapeutic relationship, I empower adolescents to acquire and apply self-awareness and mindfulness skills to navigate various challenging social situations and manage family and academic stressors in a more healthy way. Guiding adolescents to cultivate a healthy sense of self is the most central treatment focus in therapy.

When working with teens, I integrate interventions from CBT, DBT, and psychoeducation to enhance adolescents’ understanding of their brain development and how it impacts their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, supporting them in making positive and healthy life choices.

Family therapy can be helpful for those families going through challenging situations which create stress and relationship conflicts within the family. My approach to working with families is strongly grounded in a systems theory, which aims to identify, understand, and address problems as patterns or systems to be adjusted.

Common reasons for seeking family therapy include parental conflict, grief and loss, major transitions, child’s behavioral challenges, family members dealing with medical or mental health issues, etc. Family therapy can help facilitate cohesion and communication, build empathy towards one another, promote problem-solving by a better understanding of family dynamics, which can help reduce conflict within the family.