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Children & Adolescents: If your child or teen is experiencing a mood, anxiety or behavioral problem or is having school study or social issues, we offer Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies that address the child’s unhelpful thinking and attitudes as well as teaching new coping behaviors. Parents are an integral part of our treatment planning as are school administrators and teachers when essential.
Anger & Conduct Problems
Dr. Nay’s six-step anger program published in Taking Charge of Anger: 2nd Edition (Guilford Press, 2012) is the basis for practical and powerful teaching about regulating anger arousal and altering thinking that fuels anger. New ways of expressing feelings and solving problems without aggression are practiced.
Parenting: Setting Limits and Boundaries
Stress and anxiety diminish quality of your life. Muscle tension, gastro-intestinal upset and general inner tension and “nervousness” can roadblock your life’s goals and make each day a challenge. You will learn new ways to identify the beginnings of “fight or flight” arousal and to relax your mind and body while challenging and replacing upsetting thinking patterns (e.g., worrying, catastrophizing, “filtering in” upsetting thoughts) that trigger the anxiety in the first place.
Depression & Self Esteem
Stress and anxiety diminish quality of your life. Muscle tension, gastro-intestinal upset and general inner tension and “nervousness” can roadblock your life’s goals and make each day a challenge. You will learn new ways to identify the beginnings of “fight or flight” arousal and to relax your mind and body while challenging and replacing upsetting thinking patterns (e.g., worrying, catastrophizing, “filtering in” upsetting thoughts) that trigger the anxiety in the first place.
Social Skills & Peer Relationships
CBT is the treatment of choice for identifying and replacing unhelpful and negative beliefs about yourself or others that roadblock success in achieving your goals. Changing your inner “script” from thinking that undermines your confidence to positive and rational thinking that opens life’s doors is the focus.
ADD & ADHD: Assessment & Treatment
CBT is the treatment of choice for identifying and replacing unhelpful and negative beliefs about yourself or others that roadblock success in achieving your goals. Changing your inner “script” from thinking that undermines your confidence to positive and rational thinking that opens life’s doors is the focus.
Anxiety Disorders and Fears
Anxiety emerges when the child or teen misperceives the level of threat within a life or school situation. CBT and relaxation and arousal management strategies are learned to “reframe” feared or anxiety provoking situations and to learn to expose oneself to what is feared.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
CBT is the treatment of choice for identifying and replacing unhelpful and negative beliefs about yourself or others that roadblock success in achieving your goals. Changing your inner “script” from thinking that undermines your confidence to positive and rational thinking that opens life’s doors is the focus.
School Motivation & Homework Issues
CBT is the treatment of choice for identifying and replacing unhelpful and negative beliefs about yourself or others that roadblock success in achieving your goals. Changing your inner “script” from thinking that undermines your confidence to positive and rational thinking that opens life’s doors is the focus.