Services Overview
A Passion for Helping Young Children and Families
Following the clinical assessment process and co-creation of a plan together with parents / legal guardians, the treatment process will begin. Alisa will implement a variety of therapeutic techniques to address your child and family’s needs and concerns. Essential to this process is collaboration between Alisa and the family. The treatment process may include one or more of the following modalities or dimensions:
Play Therapy
Play is the natural language of children. Through play, children are able to utilize the toys and creative mediums to express emotions, practice problem solving, heal from trauma, improve coping skills, and experience a sense of mastery.
Partnering with Parents
Alisa utilizes and integrates a collaborative approach to her work with children and families. Building therapeutic relationships with children and families, including strong partnerships with parents and caregivers, is an essential part of the psychotherapy and healing process. Alisa works closely with children, parents, and schools in order to help enhance children’s adaptive expression of emotions, increase coping repertoires and problem solving skills, nurture new pathways for healing and growth, foster resiliency, and optimize children’s continued developmental progress.
Clinical Supports & Treatment Interventions
Clinical Services for children often include a multi-modality of therapeutic supports and interventions including a combination of clinical assessment, individual play therapy, family treatment and parent guidance, school consultations and collaboration with providers as indicated (with parental and/or legal guardian’s consent). Partnering with parents / legal guardians is an essential part of the treatment process.
Interested in Working Together?
Contact Alisa to schedule a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation to discuss your child and learn more information about Alisa and her practice. She welcomes the opportunity to discuss your child and family’s needs.
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
FRED ROGERS