Developmental

evaluations

Have you wondered whether your child should be speaking more? Or wondered whether you child's tantrums might be more than just "terrible twos"? Or been concerned that your child is not playing with you as much as you expected? Are you getting phone calls from your child's preschool expressing concerns about your child's behaviors? Are you concerned about your child's development?

A developmental assessment can help with assessing a child's current cognitive, language, and motor skills, examine factors that might be impeding his or her best performance at school, or assess for behavioral or developmental disorders.

Neuropsychological 

evaluations

Is your child struggling in school or having difficulty with test taking? Does homework time take FOREVER? Does it seem like your child is underperforming? 

Neuropsychological assessments can help determine your child's strengths and weaknesses and make recommendations to build upon your child's strengths to address weaknesses. Neuropsychological assessments can assess for a variety of factors that may be impacting your child's functioning in home and school settings, such as:

• Anxiety Disorders
• Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Graphomotor Difficulties
• Language Disorders
• Learning and Memory
• Learning Disorders (e.g., math, reading)
• Nonverbal Learning Disorders

therapy

anxiety and health

Are you wanting to learn more strategies to help your child grow and reach his or her optimal potential? Are anxiety symptoms getting in the way of your child or family's day-to-day life and causing avoidance or changes to family life? Are you looking for ways to teach your child effective coping strategies? Is your child struggling with managing a diabetes, eczema, or other health-related routine? Is it hard figuring out how to balance family needs when one child has a medical or developmental diagnosis but the other siblings do not? Are you wanting help to expand your child's repertoire of foods because he or she seems to be a picky eater or selective eater? Is your child petrified of needles and shots or the dentist? Is your child having challenges with falling or staying asleep?

I see children, adolescents, and families for a variety of reasons related to anxiety disorders and health conditions. The following is a sampling: 

BEHAVIOR, ANXIETY, AND AUTISM

• Children with Anxiety Disorders
  • Specific Phobia
  • Social Phobia
  • Trichotillomania
  • OCD
  • Separation Anxiety Disorder and school refusal
• Children with ASD and comorbid Anxiety Disorders
• Children with ADHD
• Children and parents who wish to do short-term targeted behaviroal treatment to improve behaviors, reduce tantrums or work on particular skills such as sleeping through the night, toilet training, increasing toothbrushing, etc.

HEALTH

Behaviors and conditions

• Adjustment to diagnosis, adherence, parent-child conflict over regimen adherence, procedural anxiety (e.g., shots, surgeries, dental visits)
• Parenting while a parent undergoes treatment for cancer and other health conditions
• Family and sibling functioning when another child in the family has a health or developmental disorder
• Transitioning from pediatric to adult health care
• Common types of health conditions I work with:
  • Diabetes
  • ARFID, GERD, Constipation, Feeding Disorders, Picky Eating / Selective Eating
  • Burn
  • Sleep
  • Eczema
  • Dental - related 
  • HIV

ADOLESCENT & EMERGING ADULT IDENTITIES

• Youths with GLBTQ identities
• Emerging adults with and without ASD

THERAPIES OFFERED

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Modified Parent Child Interaction Therapy
• Behavior Modification
• Family Therapy

I use empirically-supported treatments whenever possible. For areas such as parenting while a parenting is ill, therapies are focused on most recent research available to the field