Philosophy of Clinical Therapy

My philosophy begins inside the heart of my clients. As an elementary teacher, I learned the valuable lesson that my kids will never care what I know or had to teach them until they knew I cared about them. This lesson is applicable in so many instances, and especially when I counsel.

I enjoy getting to know every child that I work with. I want to know them as a person, and especially what they enjoy most. That is one reason why I am passionate about play therapy. This technique incorporates what children love most, which is often to play, and in doing so, they are more at ease to have meaningful conversations and express themselves.

My overall goal for any child I work with is to achieve emotional and cognitive stability, and provide strategies to self-regulate. We do this together as a team that involves the child, the parents, and me.