HIGHLY EXPERIENCED CHILD THERAPISTS AT IMPACT
Supporting Your Child's Mental Health & Development
What is Child Therapy?
Child therapy involves specialized therapeutic techniques designed to help children navigate emotional, behavioral, and social challenges.
Child therapy allows young clients to explore their feelings, learn coping skills, and develop healthy behaviors in a safe and supportive environment.
Who Can Benefit From Child Therapy?
Child therapy can benefit children dealing with a variety of challenges, including:
Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Digital health issues
Establishing healthy relationship boundaries
Neurodiversity
Identity development
Social skills
Coping with divorce
LGBTQIA+ support
Depression and anxiety
Emotion regulation during difficult times
IMPACT's Approach to Child Therapy
At IMPACT Psychological Services, we utilize a warm, supportive, and playful approach that allows children to feel at ease.
Play therapy, a proven therapeutic modality, enables children ages 3-11 to grow, learn, heal, and thrive. Given that children often lack the verbal abilities to express their feelings, play therapy provides an essential medium for processing emotions and developing appropriate coping skills. Play is the language of childhood.
Integrative play therapy addresses a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, behavioral difficulties, coping with family conflict, and trauma. Our therapists employ various approaches, such as psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems interventions, to tailor treatment to each child's unique needs. We work closely with families to strengthen relationships between children, parents, and siblings, offering tools to support your child’s growth and development.
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
For older children and adolescents, our clinicians provide psychotherapy services drawing from multiple theoretical approaches. These include cognitive-behavioral, family systems, dialectical behavior therapy, and psychodynamic interventions. We emphasize the importance of culture and identity in all our work, supporting the development of a strong sense of self and the ability to navigate complex social environments. Our clinicians are gender-affirming, supportive of neurodiversity, and attentive to intersectional identity and the impact of trauma.
Groups
We offer rotating groups for elementary-aged children, as well as middle and high schoolers. Facilitated by skilled therapists, these groups focus on child development, social-emotional learning, and group dynamics, providing support from both therapists and peers facing similar challenges.
How Child Therapy Can Help
Engaging in child therapy at IMPACT can lead to numerous positive outcomes, including:
Our goal is to provide children with the tools they need to navigate life's challenges, fostering resilience, growth, and a healthy sense of self.
Improved emotion regulation
Enhanced social skills and relationships
Better coping strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety
Support during family transitions, such as divorce
Increased self-confidence and sense of identity
Development of healthy boundaries in relationships